Artist, writer, web designer, father, home owner.

Oh, and musician, too.

Personal web site: http://www.alsirois.comBIOA.L. Sirois cites creative influences as diverse as Firesign Theatre, the Beatles, Pieter Brueghel, Wally Wood, Mervyn Peake, H. G. Wells, and Frank Zappa. An artist as well as a writer, he has done hundreds of illustrations, including drawings for Lullaby Angel, a children's book written by his wife, Paula, and for Penguin Island, a children's book of his own available from Hard Shell Word Factory. Two of his short stories made the Top 25 in Eternity's Best of the Web '98 contest -- more than any other author. The stories, March 11 1936, 5:30 AM and As Bad As It Gets, originally published in Deep Outside, each received Nebula recommendations. His first novel, Blood Relations, is available from Clocktower Fiction, as is its sequel, Blind Ambitions. His collection, The Beginnings of Forever from Clocktower Fiction, includes the Pushcart Prize-nominated story In the Conservatory, and others that have appeared in Amazing Stories and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Two more books appeared in 2002 - a parapsychological thriller, Detonator, from Clocktower, and Boss Tweed's Dinosaurs, a Young Adult novel, from Hard Shell.

A.L. Sirois lives in Doylestown, PA with his wife Paula, daughter Kira and son Daniel, who is attending NYU.