Hey there, I'm Josh, and this is all my mess.

When I was about four, my mother was home sick, so I decided that I'd entertain her. I took a few sheets of blank paper, folded them in half, and stapled them together to make a rudimentary booklet. I grabbed some markers and a teevee dinner tray, and I marched into my sick mother's bedroom. I handed them over and told her that I would entertain her by telling a story, which she could write down for me. Yes. I made my sick mother take dictation for me. That's the first time I can remember experiencing the impulse to write a story, and since then, that impulse has become a constant part of my life.

I was always writing. I filled notebooks with stories and drawings of characters (and their vehicles and cool weapons). When my family got a computer, a chunky Apple IIC, I fell into the habit of staying up late at night typing away. My father was a pressman at a print shop, and so it was almost no time at all that I was making endless copies of my various opuses, and later publishing amateur magazines filled with stories by myself and my like-minded friends.

The other thing about those like-minded friends was that we played a lot of role-playing games, constructing our own imaginary worlds and epics. Writing for those role-playing games, and later writing my own role-playing games, was a natural next step. (You can see my most recent game designs at Kallisti Press.) My "day job" was working as a textbook editor, but my other job, the one I cared about, was writing for my games.

Lately, though, I've been missing the joys of straight-up fiction. Coming back to this territory after a long sojourn through games, I'm finding a lot of old, familiar grooves as well as noticing, perhaps for the first time, aspects of fiction-writing that are new, exciting, and challenging. In my "Rooksbridge Project" here, I'm looking forward to doing something both unique and grounded in literature's history. It's heady stuff for a story geek like me. I can't wait to see where it takes me.

These days I live in Los Angeles with my wonderful partner Meghann and our daughter.