The life of Douglas Rees is not a subject he cares to get into deeply. "BORING," he says. Nonetheless, he admits to having been born, and claims the event took place at March Air Force Base in California "Rather a long time ago now." At the age of twelve, he decided that he wanted to be a writer, and spent the next thirty-five years taking intermittent stabs at it. Meanwhile, he worked at various kinds of teaching, spent a year as a hospital orderly, drove something like an ambulance, washed dishes, took inventories, told stories, and was part owner of a ballet school (he can't dance). He got married, got divorced, and got married again (to different people). In his midthirties he went to library school at Berkeley just before they closed it down ("Not my fault," he insists), and currently works as a young adult librarian at the south end of San Francisco Bay. He has one wife and too many cats. Besides Majix, he has written nine other published books, including Lightning Time, Smoking Mirror, and Vampire High, which won various honors, and Grandy Thaxter's Helper, Uncle Pirate, and The Janus Gate, which didn't. He is not particularly weird, but some of the things in Majix, like the smoking scene, are things he has actually done. His favorite music is oatmeal cookies, and his favorite food is turquoise. If you place him near a body of flowing water, he will probably stare at it contentedly without wandering off until you want him again. This cannot be absolutely guaranteed, however. He is notorious for getting lost. He prefers to plead the Twenty-first Amendment in answer to all other questions.
