McDermott lives in Georgia, and holds an MFA in popular fiction from the University of Southern Maine and a BA in creative writing from the University of Houston.
[1] His first novel, Last Dragon, was #6 on Amazon.com's Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2008,[2] shortlisted for a Crawford Prize for First Fantasy,[3] and on Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading List for Debuts in 2008.
[4] His second novel, Never Knew Another[5][6] is the beginning of the Dogsland Trilogy, from Nightshade Books.
[7][8] It received strong critical praise including a review by noted genre critic, John Clute, in Strange Horizons.
[9] The second novel of the trilogy was reviewed in Publishers Weekly, praising the depiction of the anti-hero of the novel.