Zachary started his writing career as young as six years old while writing stapled-together notebook stories about Spyro the Dragon and hand-drawing their front covers. Not long after, one of his poems was selected for print in a collection at eight years old and his first attempt at a novel was finished at eleven years old. With writing being a core part of his life through elementary school, the concept of Sorrow began in middle school during the height of vampire fiction. Wanting to do something completely different from the existing and popular works of that time, Sorrow was started, which evolved until his sophomore year of college when it was released in April of 2017 as part of “The Sorrows Trilogy,” the now-obsolete and discontinued precursor to the now-successful franchise, The Legacy of Sorrow.After the release of Affliction in 2021, work on Desolation began and encountered problems during production regarding length and the overall scale of The Sorrows Trilogy. The decision was made in 2022 to re-launch the books as a four-part series entitled The Legacy of Sorrow, with the first book (Sorrow) undergoing extensive rewrites to enhance its quality and treating the rest of the series to a rebranding and a new design. The rebranding expanded with a new publisher, growing to include merchandise, custom and commissioned artwork, an Official Fandom Wiki (community partnership), comic books, and more that brought the Sorrowverse closer to reality. In January of 2023, Zachary was medically retired and honorably discharged from the military as Staff Sergeant. He was granted a Master of Public Health degree in August 2023 and pursues higher education at the doctoral level. He currently teaches students in the fields of Public Health and Epidemiology as Adjunct Faculty in the Purdue University school system. Read more about this authorRead less about this author