Dave Elkins was born in Panama City, Florida to a military family. He left home when he was 13, and he became a believer in Jesus Christ at the age of 15. At 16, he felt a very specific call to be a pastor, and he realized that dream when he was 30. He started pastoring a small Calvary Chapel in San Diego, California. In 1991 he and his family moved to Dayton, Ohio where they started Calvary Chapel of Dayton, and he has been pastoring there ever since. He started writing "Fallen Stars" in 1999, but with a busy, full-time work schedule driving a school bus and pastoring, he did not finish until around 2008. It is his hope to put out other books in the future.