Background
Brown was born in Utah and spent many years working in the family floral and nursery business.
Brown was born in Utah and spent many years working in the family floral and nursery business.
Brigham Young University.
After college Brown worked as a business consultant and instructor in Livermore, California and Westerville, Ohio. He current lives in Laketown, Utah, a ranching environment that inspired one of the core ideas in his debut novel. Brown explored writing as a student at Brigham Young University, studying with Darrell Spencer, Leslie Norris, Bruce Jorgensen, and Peter Macuck.
After attending a transformational writing workshop offered by Dave Wolverton, he began to submit his stories for publication.
His short story "The Scent of Desire" appeared in the contest"s 1997 anthology of winners under the pseudonym Bo Griffin. Brown focused much of his time from 1997 - 2002 establishing his career as a business consultant and instructor.
In 2002 he attended his second pivotal workshop: Orson Scott Card"s Literary Boot Camp. After that workshop, Brown began to turn again to writing for publication, this time focusing on novels.
In 2007 he signed with his agent Caitlin Blasdell and in 2008 he signed a three-book contract with Tor Books for an epic fantasy series which begins with While building his writing career Brown continues to work as a senior instructor with a large Enterprise resource planning software company.