My Story
I have been writing short stories, ttrpg adventures, and campaign settings for more than twenty-five years. It began as a teenager and a fasincation with medieval history, science fiction, and the endless possiblities of fantasy inspired by works by Tolkien, Aasimov, and Rodenbury.
I spent the majority of my formative years reading anything I could get my hands on including the entire goosebumps series which I subsequently followed up with more mature reading from Stephen King, Peter Straub and the collected works of Tolkien and Aasimov. It wasn't until I read the Shannara series by Terry Brooks and the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan that I really began to appreciate complex and comprehensive world-building.
It was around this same time that I met a good friend who happened to be running a TTRPG campaign of his own design. Falling seemingly by accident into this world of TTRPGs I was immediately hooked. I began writing short stories and creating my own worlds! I delved into cartography and tried several times to no avail to publish my short stories in various magazines.
Many years later I began running a home game of Pathfinder for a group of friends and reignited by passion for table-top roleplaying games and worldbuilding. That spawned a series of new worlds, a slew of new short stories, ttrpg adventures, and eventually a couple of novels.
Now I run a weekly game of D&D online for a group of friends and write my own adventures for Lair Magazine and the NERO Central AZ chapter. My newest book, The Art of Writing for TTRPGs is a culmination of my twenty-plus years of experience with tabletop roleplaying games with tips and tricks for worldbuilding as well as guidance for new and old game masters. I am also currently in the process of creating a new science fiction series following the people who transport things across the galaxy called the Dark Matter Delivery series. This will be a shared universe with individual novels and short stories.