What Do You Write?

I get this question a lot when people first meet me. Many years ago, when I first published, it was an easy answer as I only had one series and it was really only available in ebook format, online.

Times have changed.

Now I have three series, and one of those series has several entrance points. I also have some shorter works out in various anthologies, not to mention audio books. I also am now writing in at least three different genres. All of my books have print editions and you can walk into any major bookstore in many countries and request my books.

In addition to my novels, which I will cover next, I have written various short stories and poems for assorted anthologies over the decades. These have been collected into a single volume called Glimpses.

I currently have three main series out. I do have more series I am planning on writing, but for now I just have these three:
 
Mantidom Series:
This is my newest work and by extension my best work so far. It is a portal fantasy; that means people from the modern world travel into a fantasy world and try to survive. In this case, a game world. Two popular examples of this genre are: Jumanji and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The final book, number four, is about halfway written and I hope to have this series completed by year’s end. Time will tell though!  

The story is filled with nods to popular science fiction and fantasy movies and books as one would expect from a collection of gamers on an adventure. For now, this series is planned to be four books long. I will not close the door to spin offs or the like in the future as I have really enjoyed living the lives in these books.
 
Dragon Master Series:
This is a high fantasy series that started off its life as a serial. The original plan for this series was to continue to release novellas, each around fifty or sixty pages long. This turned out to be an impractical plan and was abandoned.

The two novels that are out are both collections of the six novellas that were released for each season. Magic plays a role in the books but is far more removed from the story than anything else I have written. A third book is planned for this series. When it is ready it will also be released as a full novel, but internally may also be formatted into six parts to match the first two. The two books that are out do have a nice conclusion, with just enough loose ends for there to be a book three.
 
The Lost Tales of Power:
This is a space opera like Star Wars. Think “wizards in space.” One reviewer called it “Rambo meets Harry Potter,” (though to be clear, it pre-dates Harry Potter). It is set in a time where humans and various alien races live in a galactic scale society complete with faster than light travel and deep space stations. A concerted effort has been made to keep all the science in it to the plausible level, even the FTL drive. This series is where I began my life as an author (I started writing the first book in the early 1990s), and as such the first several books are not quite as polished as my more recent work.

Also, this is an opened ended series with nine books out so far. I have no plans to end this series. Instead I plan to keep writing new books, and mini-series inside the universe created in the first four books.
 
So, there you have it. That is the long answer to the question, “what do you write?” I suppose the short answer would be that I am a storyteller, who makes up elaborate yarns to entertain and distract from the trials and tribulations of life.

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