iven that I’d taken the lead on a computer game project and had a) no coding skills, b) no artistic skills, and c) no musical skills, I decided pretty quickly to focus on the stuff I could do. Namely, telling […]

y the time I started writing the second volume of the series, I was pretty sure it’d be a trilogy (I was actually off by one…there wound up being four volumes in the set!). It felt like a big story, and I […]

veryone on the project knew the basic lore and framework of the Candle’Bre universe long before the books were completed, but also, there was an air of excitement with each new chapter’s completion.

I had […]

promised myself that I’d take a much needed break after the more than six years it took to write the three Candle’Bre volumes that made up the main story, but there was more yet to say.

In the intervening […]

he first board game I ever designed was in college…a cult classic called “Beer Run,” where you started in your dorm room with $1.83 (the amount of cash I had on me on the night I put the prototype […]

aving done nothing but fiction work in various forms to this point, and having lived through a number of life changing experiences, I suppose you could call me [a] DeVel at the Crossroads.

In any case, in […]

‘ve always been a fan of automation. If I can get a program or machine or device to do something repetitive for me to free up my time, I’m all for it.

There are lots of repetitive tasks in internet […]

s you can see by looking at the project completion dates, there was an enormous gap in productivity in the 2007-2010 period.

Lots of reasons for that.

By the time the curtain closed on the fourth volume […]

ife, it seemed, was not quite through with me yet.

In 2010, my marriage ended, and I separated from Christina while working on this latest volume. I think we managed to part as friends, and I hope she […]

kay, I admit it. I’m an Illyriad junkie.

I don’t spend a lot of time playing games any more. To my way of thinking, if I’m playing games, then I’m not designing or writing, or creating.

Of course, a […]

Hello and thank you for taking the time.

’ll not keep you from the story for long, but I wanted to put a short note here for those who may have landed in this place by accident or happenstance.

Candle’Bre […]