Jeffrey Marlin’s author page at Amazon.com is here.

Mr. Marlin lives quietly with his lovely wife Joan  in the seaside community of Rockaway Beach, New York, famous for its recent involvement with Hurricane Sandy. Perhaps you have seen celebrity Marxist L. Proyect’s gripping video of Mr. Marlin doing kind deeds and offering in-situ commentary following the dreadful storm. (Please note that the author seeks no consideration along these lines; the Marlin basement was replaced with a finer and more orderly basement at only slight cost to the family.)

Mr. Marlin is pleased to note that the covers gracing all 17 of these fiction titles were designed by his talented grandson, Matthew, by day a rising civil engineer who stakes a powerful claim on royalties. Matthew wisely chose his beautiful sister Emma to ornament covers of The Hallie Whirmser series, the characters in which are loosely based on local personalities. Mr. Marlin hastens to add that his other grandchildren (John, Rob, Jonathan, and Shayla) are every bit as attractive and gifted as the two first mentioned. Of course, he knows such claims are too easily and often made; he has heard similar guff from the grandparents of very ordinary children, and worse.

The gnomes, ogres, chimeras, and other social climbers populating Tales of the Great Moral Symmetry are, of course, fictional beings.

Mr. Marlin enjoys growing tomatoes and distributing them to grateful neighbors. This spring, he considered the lingering effects of a prolonged cold spell. Will it hurt? How can it possibly help? This led him to ponder the deeper problem of climate change. And, aware that he and civilization are both approaching end-points, he continues to wonder whether they will expire simultaneously in a singularly entropic, mutual (anti)orgasm.

Biographical sketches typically describe the author’s work history. Mr. Marlin has forbidden this. He now regards his entanglement with the whole system as a mistake. He tries to focus on other things and will not budge from this position, notwithstanding the good advice of his publicist.

In a similar vein, when asked how he picks subject matter, which stories he personally prefers, which he recommends to friends with diverse literary tastes, how he coerces favorable reviews, which great authors he himself reads, which sports teams he follows (other than those staffed by grandchildren), and what movies he has seen lately, Mr. Marlin refused to comment.

He can be reached at jeffreymarlin@gmail.com. But don’t expect very much.