Charles Nall was born and raised in Arkansas. He was fascinated with the likes of Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, and the Battletech universe. At a young age he drew a crude science fiction comic. It had vampires and mechs and spaceships. (Vampires before they were so popular!) It was fun. Not particularly well written or drawn, but it was fun. As he grew up, he would go back and redraw and "reboot" the comic series. Eventually, he even attempted to write a novel. The story was reworked over and over. Names were changed, the mechs removed, vampires not quite as bloodthirsty... Eventually, it became an epic in his mind that he had to share. Shatterspace.