Tom Grimm, born in 1972, apprenticed as a bookseller and has been working ever since as an author, translator, screenwriter, journalist, editor, and producer for a number of international publishers. Alongside his enthusiasm for literature, movies, and video games, he especially enjoys amusement parks, travel, listening to Rammstein, good food, bad jokes, and firing up the grill year-round. He is a passionate amateur cook, although not much of a baker. Even so, he has managed to win the Gourmand World Cookbook Award and other distinctions for his work. Tom lives with his family, a literal pride of cats, and several life-size images of Batman, Kung Fu Panda, Rayman, and Thrall the Orc. He lives and works in a small town in the west of Germany that is really and truly nothing to write home about. (Not kidding. Really.)