M. B. Stegall is an aspiring writer, professional musician, and teacher from the Charlotte, NC area. He is the author of ‘The Gray Halloween’, and ‘The Dark Winter’s Gathering’; both novels in the middle-grade Magical Realism genre. When not in the writing chair, he is teaching children how to love, appreciate and create music. He is also the director of the Jam Session Program at Ballantyne School of Music. In this program, kids and teenagers are placed into a real-life band setting where they learn songs as a group, and perform them for hundreds of people in venues across the Charlotte area.