Benjamin Grant
A self-professed geek and Meyers-Briggs INTJ personality type, over the decades his mind has spawned countless ideas for story arcs, intriguing characters, plot twists, and happy endings. However most of those creations went into RPG games he has GMed, or were written down for later use, or were simply lost. This is Mr. Grant's first attempted novel as the prospect of writing an entire book (let alone a saga) has always been too daunting.
Now, several key factors have aligned: a kernel of a particularly compelling story idea, a new tactic of focusing not on the book but only the next page, lavish praise for his work so far, and his previous success at writing the non-fiction RPG book Dream Factory.
Where things go from here, he aims to find out. Perhaps like countless other projects in the past, the Saga will peter out or go on permanent hiatus.
Or, just maybe like Dream Factory before, step by step the story will take form until it is concluded.
Then, will it be any good? The author leaves that in your hands to judge.
The author's background:
Four decades of engaging in several pursuits related to writing books, and especially related to writing this Saga:
- An active embrace and exploration of applied reason and rationality
- A deep sense of empathy for those treated unfairly by the universe or other people
- A passionate quest for deeper philosophical understanding, including pragmatic answers to most of the important questions
- Witnessing both the global and individual failures of humanity with fruitful analysis of the root causes and what fixes it would take to solve
- The narrative knowledge gained from having a ravenous hunger to consume uplifting stories in any form: books, television, or film
- The on-the-job creative training of decades spent utilizing innumerable roleplaying-game systems to bring the players in his gaming groups into unique and compelling scenarios and worlds