Sean Cameron

Sean Cameron is a survivor. He has survived being stung by forty-seven bees at the age of 8, six near drownings at the ages of 2, 4, 9, 13, 14 and 17 – one of which included artificial respiration, being threatened with a knife (twice) and a gun, and obnoxiously cheering for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish surrounded by former University of Colorado offensive linemen during a 1991 Orange Bowl party. But the act that may have defined his life as a survivor was the time he stepped onto the mat with a non-muzzled 375 pound black bear. Like many things in Sean’s life, it did not go to plan.

Much like his ill-fated wrestling match, Sean’s writing journey has been a mix of naïve courage, excitement, false hope, near misses and body slams. After falling into a small role in the Robert Redford/James Gandofini film, The Last Castle, Sean spent the next eight years as a working screenwriter selling the odd project, but never seeing his original scripts produced save for a short film. The Writers’ Guild strike of 2007 sent him back to the “real world” and he spent the next several years working, doing what his wife told him to do, doting on his daughters, coaching his sons’ football teams and pretending to be a normal person. All the while he kept writing.

A chance meeting with the author Jack Carr inspired Sean to try his hand at novel writing and now you can find him muddling his way through his first draft and wondering why he did not choose a simpler path, like neurosurgeon or astrophysicist.

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