David-Matthew Barnes Biography

David-Matthew Barnes is an American novelist playwright poet screenwriter and teacher. Barnes is the bestselling author of the novels Mesmerized Accidents Never Happen Swimming to Chicago The Jetsetters Ambrosia Wonderland Stronger Than This Fifty Yards and Holding Fascination and The Marijuana Mermaids. Two of Barnes' young adult novels Swimming to Chicago and Wonderland have been nominated by the Rainbow Project Committee of the American Library Association for their annual Rainbow Books a list of quality books with significant and authentic GLBTQ content for children and teens. Barnes writes romance novels under the name Wren Valentino including Paso Doble Miranda Chance and Searching for Salvdaor.