H. Paul Cote was born July 20th, 1955 into a harsh family environment. Growing up he dealt with an abusive mother who suffered from schizophrenia and grandiose delusions. As he bec...view moreH. Paul Cote was born July 20th, 1955 into a harsh family environment. Growing up he dealt with an abusive mother who suffered from schizophrenia and grandiose delusions. As he became an adult he struggled with anger issues stemming from his family problems. Paul turned to drugs as he began to live on the streets of Louisiana. Eventually, he signed himself into a Mental Health Clinic where he stayed for two and a half weeks, being turned over to the out clinic for thirteen years. Afterwards, feeling that he had saved himself from a life of bad choices, he became an author. Even though he yearns for a career within literature he has to deal with a severe case of dyslexia, hindering his reading and writing. Due to recent innovations in hardware and software he is finally able to get his stories out there, four already published or in the process of, in 2015 alone.view less