David Gatwood is a musician, writer, and hard-core geek. In addition to writing the Patriots series of books, he also did all of the content production and design, modified various fonts used in these books, and drew the cover art.

Besides writing books and software, David is also an avid photographer, videographer, and musical composer. His choral music has been performed by the Diocesan Choir of Monterey, California and the contemporary choir at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Santa Cruz, CA. He spends much of his spare time performing with musical ensembles in the greater Santa Cruz area.

David also designed and maintains the websites for Gatwood Publishing, Web-Scripted TV, the UCSC Wind Ensemble, Shell Script Games.com, and others.

David hangs out on Slashdot, Facebook, MobileRead, and various other online forums.