Born in Peterborough, Ontario, Randal always wanted to be a writer. He also wanted to be able to pay for groceries, so he decided to get a stable day job, first.
He started out as a paperboy. He parlayed this into gigs as a stockboy, a shoe salesman, a piano teacher, and (more recently) a law professor at Western University, where his teaching and research focus on legal ethics, legal language, and the structure of legal argument.
Randal wrote his first novel, Beforelife, while trying to write an article about the impact of economic constraints on human behavior. That article morphed into a novel set in an afterlife where no one could remember the mortal world.
Beforelife was published in 2017 and went on to win the Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal for Fantasy Fiction. It was also a top ten finalist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal For Humour, and went on to spawn two sequels: Afterlife Crisis (also a top ten finalist for the Leacock Medal) and Nether Regions, released in 2022. Beforelife and its sequels have attracted fans from all over the world.
Randal continues to work as a law professor at Western University. His books on law and legal theory have been assigned as mandatory reading at universities across Canada and have been cited by judges from every level of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada and the United States Supreme Court.
He’s currently writing his next novel.
Randal lives in London, Ontario with his wife, Dr. Stephanie Montgomery-Graham.
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