Bryan was born in Tyler, Texas. He is the oldest of three boys. His father ran a small country store and gas station in Mt. Sylvan, a small unincorporated community about 80 miles east of Dallas, Texas. His mother had a hair salon. There were about three country stores, two churches, a couple of mechanic shops and a lumber yard there when he was a child.

The first time Bryan made money writing he was 12. He sold love letters to amorous classmates who couldn't find the right words to express their affections.

His fourth grade teacher once told him she would be disapointed if he wasn't President of the United States some day. He told her he already knew he didn't want that job. That was also the year his heart was broken for the first time. Cathy McGahey dumped him for Frankie McDaniel that spring. It was a short courtship, but he was devastated just the same.

Bryan earned an Electrical Engineering degree from Texas A&M. He graduated Summa Cum Barely and Thank You Laudy. He crammed his four year degree into six years.

Why, you ask, would a creative guy like Bryan get a degree in Electrical Engineering? He wanted to know how his stereo worked. Somewhere between "circuit theory" and "electrical properties of semi-conductors" one of his professors at A&M, Dr. Beasley, divulged the secret: "The deeper you explore into this stuff the more you realize it's all just black majic."

And what did Bryan do with that prestigious degree? He went to work for Sound Productions in Dallas. He was mostly responsible for the maintenance and repair of digital keyboards. He had a lot of fun. Worked with lots of great acts as they came through Dallas: Phil Collins, The Who, James Brown, Jethro Tull, just to name a few. His father wondered if he would ever get a real job.

Eventually he did get a real job. He went to California and started working for a Navy contractor on cruise missiles. He rode around on a Navy test ship and watched missles and aircraft fly around. The rest of the time he enjoyed hot tubs and cursed Democrats on C-SPAN. It was there that his first son was born.

After a brief spell in Oklahoma, Bryan landed back in Texas and found his way to Houston, where he has chosen to stay. He worked as a programmer in oil and gas till he couldn't take it anymore. His creative soul demanded to be appeased and he decided to pursue his life-long, but neglected love: writing.