Mike MacCarthy was raised on a small farm in Connecticut, attended  Georgetown University, and relocated to San Diego, where he met his current wife, Kathy.

 

In 1990, he helped found San Diego Writer's  Monthly magazine and soon collaborated on 11 bookstore works. In  2016 he published his first Christian historical novel, Maiden  General: How 17-year-old Joan of Arc Saved France at Orléans.

 

Mike and Kathy are Catholic lectors, Eucharistic ministers, Healing  Prayer ministers, and active in the Cursillo and the Kairos Prison  Ministries.