Darrell Bain's World of Books

Darrell Bain's road to becoming a successful author was a long and rocky one, beginning with a broken home as a child, being shuffled around from parent to parent, relatives and potential adopters until re-united with his mother and siblings in a hardscrabble existence. He was a high school dropout in the 9th grade, spent many years in the military, had several broken marriages, suffered and struggled most of his life from the addictive syndrome running in his family. He was a loner, unable to settle down or stay with a job or marriage for long, even after persisting over many years in order to finally earn a B.S. degree in Medical Technology in his thirties. All this time he loved to read and had dreams of eventually becoming a writer. It was only after meeting his present wife Betty more than thirty years ago that he was able to gradually still some of the demons haunting him and try to become a writer. Unfortunately, he had the incredibly bad luck of picking the two worst scoundrels in the publishing industry for agents. They strung him along for years, scammed him and Betty out of a large amount of money and very nearly hammered the final nail in the coffin of his writing dreams. Fortunately for his readers, even this episode couldn't stop the writer within. Betty's continuing encouragement and the eBook industry revived his dream and rescued him from the nightmare of the crooked agents. Over the last five or six years, he has won just about every award possible in the eBook industry and the name Darrell Bain has become synonymous with successful eBook author. Even his newsletter, appearing monthly on his web site, www.darrellbain.com has become extremely popular with readers andwriters and just ordinary people all over the world. Now, with most of his eBooks in print or scheduled for print, his first hardcover due for release in the fall of 2007 and his current collaboration with a very well known and best selling print science fiction author, and the continuing and extremely happy marriage to Betty, he feels as if his dreams and aspirations have finally been fulfilled. It is Darrell's sincere hope that this autobiography, expanded from memoirs posted on his web site, will be an inspiration not only for writers but for anyone who has ever had to struggle in their life and for those who think things will never get better. They can, despite all the odds against them, if they will only keep trying. That's the key, he thinks. That and the right partner in life, like Betty is for him.