I grew up in a small town just north of Lansing, MI. my friends and I rode our bikes all over the place, and ran around in the woods and fields, exploring and acting out some of your RPG adventures. (I’m not even sure LARPing was an official thing back then).

I went to school to be an architect. It helped me understand aspects of city planning and construction.

My all-time favorite games are the Fallout Series. Not that I can think of.

Absolutely. As for what book, I’m not sure I can count that many. Between books by Robert Jordan and Glen Cook, their works alone have moved me and left me marveling.

The eternal City of Taneer; with the True Tree at its heart, and marvels both magical and technological, it’s where anything can happen…if you want it to.

Well, as stated before, I was an avid RPG player and DM. as we got older, we played less and less. Yet, the creativity still burned within me. So I started making notes, jotting down ideas, and slowly creating a narrative. As for what I’ve learned? I learned how not only to tell a story, but how to write a novel – two similar, yet vastly different things.

Originally, she had a name, but once I reached the end I felt I needed one more thing, one more element to grab the reader and draw out their emotions.

There were a couple in both books, scenes that made me dig down and come up with things that made me uncomfortable. In my next book (due out very soon), there’s a spot, at the end, that made me cry. Still does, every time. Every edit, when I reached that spot, my throat clenched, and my eyes watered. Till this day, it gets to me. so I hope it touches the reader as well.

Yes, I did; many of the gods and some of the legends came from our own past. As for Dirge, no one specifically, but his beliefs were forged after obvious roots. It’s not to say I agree with most of them, but I felt they fit correctly given the situation.

I’m planning on at least four more. The next one, titled Chaos Reigns volume 1: The Hand of God, is at the publisher and is due out soon. Its follow up, titled, Chaos Reigns Volume 2: The Tower of Time, is through the revision stage and I’m sending it out to beta readers now. I hope to get it released late next year.

I like an equal mix. I tend to start my books with a lot of description, and then in the revisions change much of that to dialogue. Sometimes I go too far with that and have to put the descriptions and POV character’s thoughts back in.

I have never written a play. I leave that up to my fiancée. She’s the playwright. She asks me to beta read them, but I find it quite difficult. Plays and novels might as well be in different languages to me.

I love it when someone tells me, passionately, how my work made them feel.

I’d like to have my current series finished, as well as the sci-fi series I’m forming. I’d also love to be a full time author by then, but it’s far easier said than done. I just want my stories in as many hands as possible.

I didn’t start writing seriously until only a few years ago. Before that I wrote mostly bad poetry to get my feelings out. I have no idea how to write “real poetry” and have always been better with my prose. I’ve had stories in my head for as long as I can remember and have this burning desire to get them out in one form or another. I’ve started several stories over the years but never finished them. I guess you could say I finally got over my, “I’ll finish this later,” phase.

I’ve had stories floating through my head since I was a child. I wrote two short stories in grade school. They both received good grades, though till this day I’m a bit peeved that my teacher marked me down for a spelling error that wasn’t an error. It’s a long story. I didn’t write again for years. I didn’t like to read as a child (gasp!) I know, right? That is until I picked up the book “Conan the Barbarian.” I was hooked. The next several years my story telling was done through RPG’s. My entire world comes from that time. After we stopped my stories kept brewing in my head. I wrote the kernel of one and it sat in my head, and various Word files, for a couple of decades. I showed it to my girlfriend who told me that I had to finish it. So as my new year’s resolution I promised myself I’d finish it. A few months, and 200,000 words, later the first draft was done. The problem was that everyone in the blogosphere told me it was too long and no one would touch it. So I figured I’d write something shorter to get my name out there. Sorrow’s Heart seemed to just flow out of my head.

Nothing. In all instances but one, their names simply pop into my head, they have nothing to do with how I write them.

Write and read. I know it’s a cliché but it’s true. You learn from reading, and even more so from writing. Oh, and don’t give up. Always push yourself to learn more and improve yourself. You will hear a lot of people with their negative criticisms but don’t stop.

For the most part. I primarily read and write fantasy and sci-fi, but there’s nothing wrong with a little erotica from time to time.

Beg, ask, implore, and even sometimes buy one. But with all that said, the best one I received came completely unsolicited from a reader on Amazon. Shortly after I put out the book, I received two reader reviews within weeks of its release. Among other things they said it was a, “…dark vision from an exceptional new author…” I’m still blown away by it.

I don’t but I have been giving it a little thought. If I were to do a video trailer I would want it to look professional, which means investing money in it. The last thing you want is to put out something too amateurish.

Sure. All my writing comes to me in spurts. I can’t force it. if something pops into my head I do my best to write it down as quickly as possible. I have loads of notes that I will either use or change as the story evolves.

It is pretty much hit and miss. I write when I’m able. But, as I stated before, I am always writing down notes. I try and have a note pad of some kind with me at all times, especially times where I’m just sitting there with nothing else to do but wait. That’s when some of the best stuff comes to me.

I use Facebook, Twitter, and my own website, as well as giving out business cards and copies of the book when the times are right. I would definitely refer people to Quotesrain, as they were referred to me by a rather well known author, Ms. Stacey Rourke.

Well, I guess I’d like to share that I’ve finished the first draft of my latest work titled “Cleansed.” It’s not a sequel to Sorrow’s Heart, but it is connected. After that I will finish my epic, “Chaos Reigns” which IS a follow up to both Sorrow’s Heart and Cleansed. I hope to have Cleansed published by this summer.