Gene Miller is a first time author, but a 44 year public educator. His book, WARNING: Short Stories for Middle School Boys Only, Because Girls Have Cooties! was inspired by his two oldest grandsons approaching their middle school years. The thoughts of his grandsons growing up before his eyes and entering the middle school years caused old memories of Miller's adventurous middle school years to flood back into his memories. Miller grew up along the banks of the Delaware River in the small town of Delanco on the South Jersey side of the Delaware, approximately 15 miles north of Philadelphia.

Miller eventually attended high school in the town next door, Riverside, before moving at age 14 into the small Pinelands town of Vincentown in southern New Jersey. He graduated from Lenape Regional High School in 1974. As a financially struggling freshman attending Glassboro State College, he returned home on weekends to pump gas at an ARCO station in Mt. Holly. In December of 1974, while attending to a customer in the office, the customer's car was engaged into gear by a toddler left alone and took off across the gas station lot headed toward a side set of gasoline pumps. The father was thrown from the passenger side while attempting to rescue his two year old son who was unrestrained in the vehicle. Miller set out running for the driver's side door as the car missed the gas pumps, jumping the side of its island and headed towards a four lane bypass and hotel across the highway. Miller, running at adrenaline infused speed caught up with the car and stopped it ten yards shy of the hotel wall. Police had witnessed the scene from across the highway. In 1976, Miller received the Carnegie Bronze Hero Medal for saving the child's life. In 1977, Miller received a full scholarship for his last two years of college from Carnegie. As an education major he successfully became a teacher and a H.S. football, basketball and tennis coach throughout his19 years at Overbrook Regional High School, in Pine Hill New Jersey.

In 1981, he married his lovely wife, Maria, and had three children. He received a M.A. in Educational Leadership from Rowan University in 1997 and became assistant principal to Hammonton High School in the town of Hammonton known as "The Blueberry Capital of the World." Two years later he became principal of the Hammonton Middle School where he helped with his faculty to successfully educate middle school children for the next 14 years.

After 35 years of public education, Miller retired to take an adjunct position at Stockton College. There he was in the School of Education supervising student teachers' placements from grades 1-12. The next year he was requested to design a course entitled Human Geography and taught until his final retirement in 2023.

Miller knows children. He has dedicated his life to them. He also knows learning and especially middle school adolescents. His book is not only a humorous collection of childhood adventures that have been described as "the mischief of Tom Sawyer, the nostalgia of Stand by Me, and the exuberance of The Sandlot," but it transports its readers back to a simpler time before the internet, computers, cell phones, cable & streaming television, and Xbox. Back in the day kids would leave the house and play on their own, then return home by six o'clock for dinner. They played their own games, explored their world, discovered their own adventures and made their own rules. WARNING; Short Stories for Middle School Boys Only, Because Girls Have Cooties conveys its readers the delight of an uncomplicated time that has now long passed.

“A remembrance that's full of delightful nostalgic turns.”
– Kirkus Reviews