Jack Bludis, who has sold over thirty novels and two-hundred short stories with various pseudonyms and in various genre, has lived in Baltimore most of his life. He is a frequent visitor to New York City.

THE BIG SWITCH is the first novel published under his own name. His story, "New Guy on the Block," placed in post-World War II Baltimore, so far is only available as a short story in Bob Randisi's new anthology, MYSTERY STREET.