About Peter Dudley

I write fiction and poetry for people with a sense of adventure or a twisted sense of humor. Or both.

Between my first book in fifth grade (a handwritten, crayon-illustrated autobiographical story called A Trip to Las Vegas) and my 44th birthday, I accomplished many things, including:

• earned a degree in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley
• co-founded two companies, neither of which went very far
• worked on the first stealth bomber (the B-2), the first PDA (the Casio Z-PDA), and the first smart phone (the Nokia 9000)
• married and raised two boys to middle and high school (so far)
• wrote five novels (four during NaNoWriMo)
• published a handful of technical articles
• published a handful of short stories and a few poems, plus the novel above
• coached soccer, led scouts, and guarded a school crosswalk
• raised over $100 million for charity in my Day Job
• brewed several batches of quite tasty beer
• and learned to use bullet lists among other HTML, SQL, XML, Java, and PHP things.

Today I live in California with my wife, two sons, and two cats (Alice and Vuvuzela).

SEMPER My YA dystopian novel, SEMPER, was published in January of 2012. You can download the e-book or pick up the print version. Dane's sixteenth birthday holds a choice he didn't expect to face: Should he take his place as Semper, obeying his cruel uncle and twelve generations of Southshaw Truth, or should he follow his heart and risk exile and death to unearth the real truth? An exotic huntress, a mythical ghost-man, and a tailor's daughter hold the keys to his answer. And to the survival of Southshaw itself.