| Seth Johnson was born in a hillside shack above Mexico City. At the age of seven, armed only with his wits and a mud-stained copy of Oliver Twist dropped by a tourist, he assembled local street urchins into a pickpocket army and made more than a million dollars US by the age of twelve.
After his fortune was spent in less than two years, he bought a third-hand El Camino and entered the dangerous Rally Internacional America. His skills both on-road (placing a respectable seventh in the Under Sixteen category) and off (KO'ing fellow driver Jose Prado after the notorious international druglord maligned the honor of a barmaid in an after-hours one-on-one brawl) brought him to the attention of the CIA, who trained him as a foreign case officer.
Available information hints that he probably spent the next decade in Sri Lanka, though his actions there are unknown.
Since a suspiciously easy nationalization in 1997, Seth denies any ongoing connection with the CIA, content to work at Humanhead Studios as a design assistant and pursue studies of gourmet cooking and jazz piano.
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At times a baker, trading post operator, corn detassler, pizza chef, webmaster, delivery driver, Scoutcraft Specialist, literary agent, and carny, Seth Johnson is currently a design assistant at Humanhead Studios, where he has worked on Rune, Rune: Halls of Valhalla, Rune Gold, and Rune: Viking Warlord. Believe it or not, he is now at work on a title that does not begin with the word "Rune".
When not writing at work, he writes for fun and profit as a freelance writer. His work includes an annual column on comics for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, all sorts of cover copy for Tor Books, and the game Sketch! for Corsair Publishing. He also claims to have ghostwritten one of Mark Twain's lesser novels, despite the fact they were all published more than fifty years before he was born. This lends credance to the theory that he may indeed be a professional liar.
He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he occasionally writes about himself in the third-person. Online, you can find him running the Monkeyfan List and hanging out on the Something Awful Forums as "Inkslinger".
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