Introducing my fantasy series, The Seventh Age Saga, and sharing the story of how my love for fantasy, role-playing, art, and writing shaped it.

I’ve written and published books in many genres, including New Adult Contemporary Romance, Crime & Suspense, Dark Contemporary Fantasy, Young Adult Urban Fantasy, Dystopian, and even Historical. (Most of these books I have removed from sale.)

And although I have favorite books I’ve written, the genre I love more than any other has always been High Fantasy. Reading it, writing it, watching it, playing it—nothing beats the crackling of a fire in the hearth of an old tavern, the shiing! of swords colliding in battle, the creaking of carriage wheels moving over rough terrain, or horses’ hooves clopping over cobblestones.

Most of my fantasy writing was done between 1999-2006, when I joined like-minded fantasy lovers in MSN Communities/Groups and chat rooms where we created characters and empires and had loads of fun with turn-based freeform role-playing.

I vividly remember thinking that the cheesy animated gifs. of flickering candles and skulls with glowing eyes on Geocities websites were so awesome. I remember spending hours browsing fantasy artwork by Boris Vallejo, Luis Royo, Brom, Frank Frazetta, Julie Bell, and many others, hoping to find the perfect character image to build my character around or to set a scene in a post I was preparing.

Ah, those were the days! 😊

Oddly enough, as much as I loved high fantasy, it wasn’t until 2020 that I wrote my first high fantasy novel.

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