Gene started reading comics the summer he turned 13. He was working for a landscaping company and on his lunch break he would go to a corner store in Jonesboro, TN every day. Back then a dollar would buy him a can of soda, a bag of chips, a candy bar and comic book. There were no comic shops in his town so Gene would pick up whatever was on the news rack at the small corner store (no longer in business). Usually it was Captain America, Spiderman or Batman. Occasionally when something different would come along it was almost like Christmas. Gene still recalls the first comic he ever saw of Power Man and Iron Fist and has that comic to this day.

Gene has always been a writer in one form or another and he had a short story and an editorial published in a local newspaper the same summer he turned 13. Since then Gene has spent much of his time in logistics and distribution management still writing everything from poetry to an attempted novel and since the past five years, comic books. Now as co-founder of Shot in the Dark Comics, Gene is now doing what he always dreamed, creating and writing professionally. His works include The Nightmist Chronicles, Brix, Payne and Suffering and The Eyes of the Father.

When not working at his full time job or writing or otherwise working for Shot in the Dark, Gene enjoys having fun with family and friends and participating in medieval re-enactments for such groups as the SCA.