Brian Drake is a twenty-five year veteran of radio and television broadcasting. He has spent his career in San Francisco where he's filled writing, producing, and reporting duties with various broadcasting facilities. A love of reading when he was younger inspired him to create his own stories, and he managed to sell one short story a year between 2001 and 2010, mostly to non-paying web-zines. Drake entered the self-publishing field in 2010, and quickly gathered enough of a following to attract the attention of several publishers and other writing professionals, which ultimately led to his Scott Stiletto thrillers.