D.Q. (Doug) Grossa has lived in Thailand, Australia, and the United States. He has made five world circumnavigations, journeying through over one hundred countries and forty-nine states. He claims his travels were motivating factors for writing When Living Becomes Forever. Many of the chapters were written on six of the seven continents. From those places, Doug used the social, geographic, and historical fabric to feed the plot of his novel. Doug and his wife, Sally Shumway, live in New Port Richey, Florida.