Derek McDonald lives in the city of Burlington, located just west of Toronto, Canada. Specializing in Information Technology, Derek holds a degree in Commerce from Ryerson University and a Diploma in Business from Loyalist College. As a lifelong fan of heavy metal music and a founding member of Emperor Multimedia Corporation, he has been published several times for a non-fiction set of multimedia CD-ROM encyclopedias on the history of that music genre. In 2006 he received acting and wardrobe credits on the music video by Canadian heavy metal band Penetrator. Derek is also an accomplished computer programmer with several commercial software titles to his name. Many of his software and CD-ROM works have been archived at the United Nations Library of Alexandria (UNESCO). He is the founder and programmer of Diskery.com, an archive and on-line museum to rock music. He is also an author of Gothic Horror, his first publication of that type being Train of Consequences (2009).