About the guy

Out of seven billion people on the planet Earth, there is nobody like Rocco Ryg. Really, he’s the only Rocco Ryg. Try to find another one, I dare you.

 

Growing up on the mean streets of Algonquin, Illinois, Rocco became a creative and imaginative individual, even if others found him too eccentric. At age nineteen, he nearly lost his vision when amoebas inside his eye attached themselves to his contact lenses.  Fortunately, two corneal transplants saved his vision, but he must wear glasses forever.

 

The genesis for his eBook series, the Onryo Saga, began when he read a book about liberals starting a new civil war in America by driving giant robot mechs. Rocco found the book insultingly bad, with one-dimensional characters and an incomprehensible plot that only served to mock a cartoonish version of the left. He decided that if Bill O’Reilly could be the action hero and Rush Limbaugh could ride a time-travelling horse, that he could write his own action-packed series that proudly combines politics and history with intense superhero action.

 

A fan of comics, sci-fi and anime, Rocco has been writing fanfiction since his teens, putting his unique spin on the stories by taking established characters to places they were never meant to go. He also had a show on Youtube under the name Joe Marasmus, where he opined on political subjects and made fun of demented Youtubers… until he was banned from the site by an incompetent administrator who didn’t understand the definition of “fair use.” Not long afterward, he earned his master’s degree in political science and became a caseworker for the Department of Human Services, where he provides medical coverage and food security to the people of Illinois.