Rise and Walk (25 page)

Gregory Solis was born in San Francisco, California on the 4
^th
of July, 1970. He grew up on a steady diet of horror films, Don Pendleton novels,
Dungeons & Dragons
, martial arts and
Doctor Who
. Greg was lucky to have older siblings who took him to see some of the greatest horror films that the Seventies and Eighties had to offer. It was in 1978 that he was able to see
Dawn of the Dead
on the big screen, beginning his love of zombie films. His love of horror led him to study special effects make-up and filmmaking. His diverse interests, while great for a writer or filmmaker, were not very conducive to conforming within the American public school system.
After being kicked out of high school as a bad influence (and bad
student), Greg ran off to Hawaii to continue his career as a problem
child. He worked in a bar using his older brother’s I.D. and quickly
found that he resented being sent away by his educators. He purchased a number of textbooks from the University of Hawaii and studied on his own. It was in Hawaii that he first attempted writing seriously. He tried to emulate the great writers that he discovered in his used copy of
The Anthology of American Literature
. Soon he realized that he wanted to go to college so he returned to California and earned an Associate Degree in Television Production, where he studied screenwriting. After a three-year stint with a local production house as a video editor, Greg was accepted to San Francisco State University, where he earned a Bachelors degree in Cinema Production.

Rise & Walk
is his first entry into the survival horror genre and is the beginning of a planned three book series in the Riseverse.
Greg resides in Northern California, where he is active in the indie
film scene as a film editor, as well as a corporate sell-out whenever the money is right. He has also been known to help friends with special gore effects on projects. Some recent films include helping to eviscerate the
Black Devil Doll
in the cult film of the same name, as well as creating the zombie effects for the film,
Everything I Learned About Zombies I Learned from the Movies
.

Learn more about the author at www.
myspace.com/solis70.