There are days when I wake up and have to ask myself 'what's really going on?" Sex abuse scandals, crooked politicians selling Senate seats and people getting shot in grocery stores. Ridiculous. Is this what I spent 3 yrs of my life fighting to defend? It is because of these animalistic examples of human degeneration that I pour my heart into my work. I enjoy creating fantastic worlds with broken characters that can overcome even the greatest obstacle. Like real life, my heroes aren't promised the fairy tale ending. Some live, some die.
I wrote Armies of the Silver Mage when I was deployed to Afghanistan in 2002-2003. It is a simple story, or so I believe. Naturally I did not do this alone. I constantly sought the advice of others, namely my tent mate, Duwan Cratch and a feisty young Lieutenant, Aimee Jaskot. Without their insight and guidance Armies would not be what it is. There is something of each of them in the characters you read.
Now if I could only find an agent willing to take on traditional fantasy......TBC.
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