My background is in Digital Entertainment and Game Design. I am an avid 3D artist and familiar face at developer conventions and seminars. As a self-taught writer, my influences came from a dizzying array of sources. An over-active imagination and desire to customize everything I absorb fed vast childhood fantasies and allowed me to perfect world-building at a young age. From there, avid reading gave me access to many concepts and new ideas. When I began to write seriously, I started by copying the styles of my favorite authors. By blending the techniques of several different writers and ad more...