Death Assemblage

Haydon Rochester, Jr. was born in New York City and raised in the village of Hardwick in northern Vermont. After training in natural science and working several years as a scientific editor, he changed direction and began earning his living as a freelance technical and marketing writer. Inspired by a client’s observation that his contribu-tion to a government-sponsored report appeared to be largely fictional, Mr. Rochester began writing stories in 1985. Since then he has published nu-merous short stories and five novels. Mr. Rochester lives with his wife in the charming town of Onancock on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.