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About Mike Mullin

Mike Mullin first discovered he could make money writing in sixth grade. His teacher Mrs. Brannon occasionally paid students for using unusual words. Mike''s first sale as a writer earned 10 cents for one word: tenacious. Since then Mike has always been involved with literature. One of his early jobs was shelving books at Central Library in Indianapolis. Later he paid his way through graduate school in part by serving as a reference assistant for Indiana University''s library. Mike has worked in his mother''s business Kids Ink Children''s Bookstore for more than twenty years serving at various times as a store manager buyer school and library salesperson and marketing consultant. Mike wrote his first novel in elementary school-Captain Poopy''s Sewer Adventures. He''s been writing more or less non-stop ever since.