LONG BIO:
Yeah, so I’ll be honest with you. I’m not a huge fan of those author bio templates. The ones that are just summaries of the big things in their life. It’s not my thing. This is the one area where authors have the most freedom, the most stream of consciousness—the one writing assignment we all got A’s on back in creative writing school. But we’re expected to fit our lives into a template?
Come on, you’ve already learned quite a bit about me just from the paragraph above, haven’t you? You’ve probably attached a voice to my words. That’s great! That means there’s a connection. There should be a connection between writers and their readers.
Anyways, with that said, I’m not going to just give away my backstory so easily. What fun would that be? I’m gonna maintain a little mystery. Not that it’s a big mystery like how dark matter works or finding Bigfoot.
I’ll say this. I’m a millennial and a Mexican-American. I am proudly a 90s kid, a decade, which I not so modestly believe was a pretty damn good one. There was no Cold War and the War on Terror hadn’t started yet. It wasn’t perfect, but you’d never know between episodes of Beast Wars, Pokemon, and our 4th grade teacher reading Harry Potter to us.
After a subjectively melodramatic, but objectively dull high school run, I did the whole college thing. Well, not the whole college thing. I didn’t live on campus.
I like to do physical stuff. Sort of. I work out, I’ll run. I’m not an insane adrenaline junky though. I don’t snowboard or parasail. That said, three things on my bucket list: swimming with sharks, running with the bulls, and going skydiving. You’ll know when I do these things, trust me.
Let’s see, what else? Maybe what I actually do for money. Hopefully writing. If not, probably some mix of teaching and random gigs. Programming in the near future. Yeah, we’ll say that. But I won’t lie. Writing is one of the only things I’ve been passionate about for most of my life. I do sometimes wonder if I should’ve become a boxer. That could’ve been pretty awesome.
Should we talk about politics? I’m definitely a political person. Very opinionated, but also very willing to hear different viewpoints.
Oh, I know. I’m unmarried and have no kids. And I live in Los Angeles, California. The last little town in Los Angeles, California, actually, where you can go running down the mainstreet and probably see someone you know (ala Bedford Falls).
While I don’t co-author stories with my brother, I do trade feedback of writing ideas with him (he writes crime fiction). I can safely say that without him I would never have become a writer.
If you have more questions, I’ll probably do some sort of Twitch stream soon (or maybe already have) and you’re more than welcome to ask me there. Or you can kidnap me and subject me to ‘advanced interrogation’ until I answer your questions. That works, too.
SHORT(ER) BIO:
Gibson Morales is the starving artist and authorpreneur (author+entrepreneur) behind the InterBleeding saga and the Aldrinverse series. His young adult science fiction novel The Deadliest Earthling won the 2015 New Apple Summer e-Book Award. It’s not exactly a Hugo, but, hey, he’ll take it!
When he’s not out partying on yachts with Instagram models and lines of coke, Gibson is getting lost in alternate realities in front of a computer. While he currently writes political space operas with rich world-building, he would be happy if readers considered it thought-provoking satire. Which is not to say that he has any problems with science fiction—he’s in a mature and steady relationship with sci-fi now (sometimes when he’s writing science fiction, he still fantasizes about satire, though).
Gibson lives in Los Angeles, CA with an alien he rescued from Area 51. As captain of his publishing flagship, Mo Bros Books, Gibson’s mission is to explore awesome new stories and engaging characters. To boldly create what no writer has created before!