Growing up, Jack Soren's favorite movies usually starred either Jerry Lewis or Vincent Price. This explains a lot. A LOT. His headboard was usually stocked with The Hardy Boys, Star Trek novels and comic books. And his head was usually full of science, bad jokes and girls. Luckily, some of this has finally started to leak out.

Before becoming a thriller novelist, Jack wrote software manuals, waited tables, drove a cab and spent six months as a really terrible private investigator.

Jack recently signed a multi-book deal with HarperCollins for his debut thriller series. The first book in the series, THE MONARCH, is due out December 2014. The second book -- DEAD LIGHTS -- follows in June 2015.

He lives in a Toronto area dungeon where his girlfriend tosses meat and beer over a curtain for every 10 manuscript pages he manages to finish.