Passarella is a married father of three young children, who all reside in Logan Township, New Jersey.
Currently, "Jack" writes full-time when he's not working on his website design and author promotion business AuthorPromo.com.
Columbia Pictures purchased the film rights to Wither in a preemptive, pre-publication bid.
Passarella followed Wither with the media tie-ins Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Ghoul Trouble and Angel: Avatar.
Since June 1996, he has been writing articles on Microsoft Word and other soft & hard areas of the computer world for WindoWatch, a free webzine.