Wil Mara has been publishing books for the last 25 years. He began with nonfiction for school libraries, moved into children's fiction by ghostwriting five of the popular ‘Boxcar Children Mysteries,' then into adult fiction with his 2005 disaster thriller,Wave, which won the New Jersey Notable Book Award. Wil also spent 20 years as an editor, working for Harcourt-Brace, Prentice Hall, and others.