Michael Cale is the nom de plume of a professional gypsy.  Born in Britain, he lived in various countries until washing up in the South Pacific, which is where he now has a home base.  Outside his writing career, he works for an international 'e-business' company as a strategist, traveling frequently through North America, Australasia and south-east Asia to advise major corporations on the Internet and the technology revolution.  It was his on-going research into evolving technology that first sparked the idea that underlies 'The Room of Shrunken Souls'.  (The book is based on real developments in nanotechnology.)

Besides science fiction and horror, Cale also writes mainstream literature. He has also published extensively on business and 'e-business' subjects, his most common theme being that of the pace of technology-induced change and the strategies that we must use to survive and prosper in the 'new world'.

Animal-lovers will be intrigued to know that Cale lives with no cats or dogs or any other pet.  Not even a goldfish.

There is this persistent fly that seems to have adopted him, though...