Dave Swavely is general editor at Cruciform Fiction with Cruciform Press, which offers a line of Christian novelettes. He is also the author of numerous books, both fiction and non-fiction. His speculative fiction includes the Peacer series (Silhouette and Kaleidocide) published by Thomas Dunne Books, a division of Macmillan, and the new novels Dayfall (Tor) and Next Life (Cruciform). Never being one to do anything halfway, he has been both a great success and failure in life, while raising seven children with his beloved wife Jill and starting several churches and schools along the way (and learning more from the failures than the successes).