I spent my childhood reading Tolkien, Anne McCaffrey,  Larry Niven and a host of other science fiction and fantasy authors who had a gift for creating compelling worlds and populating them with real people, not just sterile, predictable caricatures or fantasy tropes.

My interest in fiction has always been on  works that are character, rather than plot driven.  This interest has deepened in recent years as I have read through the works of Patrick Rothfuss, Guy Gavriel Kay, and Brandon Sanderson - to name only a few.

In 2015 I set out to write a story inspired by and set within the world of BioWare's Dragon Age:Inquisition.  While it may seem odd to consider using  a video game as a source of inspiration, the truth is that the writers at BioWare have taken the time to create a complex mythology every bit as deep as you would find in any modern high-fantasy novel.  

The media in the Dragon Age IP explore a wide range of complex social, political, philosophical, and ethical dilemmas.  The novels I am writing expand the existing mythology in an exploration of  the tensions between hope and despair, judgement and compassion, isolation and love, and the way in which hope can be used to wage a hidden war in the face of overwhelming social, military, and supernatural antagonists.