Randy Ingermanson is the award-winning author of six novels and the best-selling book WRITING FICTION FOR DUMMIES. He is known around the world as "the Snowflake Guy" in honor of his wildly popular "Snowflake method" of designing a novel. Randy holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from UC Berkeley and serves as the director of software engineering at Vala Sciences, a biotech startup in San Diego. His life goal is to achieve Total World Domination. Rumor says that he has already achieved this and is living incognito in southern Washington with his wife and daughters and three belligerent cats. Randy says this rumor is "a vicious exaggeration."