If it was not obvious, my writer friends and I are HUGE geeks and love to have awesome discussions about our craft, philosophy and psychology. Sad thing is, we are always bummed out no one else can join in, because we know there are so many other out there with great ideas, too. So, starting Sept 1st we will begin a serial daily blog posting on the topic of "Creating the Modern Myth: A Hero’s Journey for the Technological Age" as the daily launchpad for our round table talks!  Come join us!

I did not write this book to become rich. Instead, I worked on it for years as a labor of love and passion and my deepest desire is to share it with the world. Because of this, I have pledged to donate ALL of my pre-order profits as author to: Hope For The Warriors, National Military Family Association, and Our Military Kids. As a writer, I am not able to be like our soldiers and go overseas and defend our freedom under fire, put an end to terrorism, or liberate persecuted peoples. BUT it is my hope that through my writing I can inspire the hearts and minds of our families and service members through an action-packed literary adventure filled with love, heroism, and self-discovery. Please join me in that mission.

Great news, I'm publishing my long awaited fantasy novel RUNE OF THE APPRENTICE with the publishing house Inkshares, but I need your help! To ensure that this amazing book is able to be read by the world, please pre-order today!

As reported by Chris Taylor in Mashable: The computer-controlled driverless car is barreling down the road of the future towards us. We've known this for a long time, but the speed and the matter-of-factness with which it is moving from prototype to actual product still has the power to give you whiplash.

What is altruism? Put simply, it's the wish that other people may be happy. And, says Matthieu Ricard, a happiness researcher and a Buddhist monk, altruism is also a great lens for making decisions, both for the short and long term, in work and in life.

In this lesson from Big Think Edge, game designer Jane McGonigal walks you through the ways in which gaming can lead to positive outcomes in the workplace. 

Still continuing to break video game industry crowdfunding records, Star Citizen is an upcoming space trading and combat simulator that will consist of first-person space combat, first-person shooter elements, and trading in a massively multiplayer persistent universe with a branching single-player and drop-in co-operative multiplayer campaign. Come check it out!

The Nemesis System is a next-gen living world which creates personal enemies on every play though. In Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, the Nemesis System creates "procedurally-generated" enemies. That is to say, in Shadow of Mordor, orcs are individuals: no two are the same, and no two players will have the same encounter with these foes. There are villains in every game, but the villains in Shadow of Mordor are personal because they evolve right along side your character, reacting to every choice you make. 

In the latest experiment from Google Chrome, the world of the The Hobbit is literally right at your fingertips.

We have have read about Middle Earth in  J.R.R. Tolkien's novels and seen it in subsequent films directed by Peter Jackson, but now Google allows us to fly above the elf city of Rivendell or sneak through the dark Trollshaws, all with the tap of the keyboard's direction keys or the swipe of a finger across a smartphone.

Truly wonderful news: I am now an agented writer, signed by literary agent Bob Thixton, the co-owner of Pinder Lane & Garon-Brooke Associates! You can find more info about the agency at their website, (where you will also find a picture of me under their tab “Our books & writers”)

Wonderful news in the world of Apotheosis Studios! My manuscript of Mindra's Haven and The Illusive Diamond is finally complete! This manuscript has been many long years in the making, however, all the blood, sweat, and tears have finally come together in one-hundred and thirty-one thousand words of epic glory! In addition, with the completion of the manuscript, Terra's maps have also been updated and polished. Below is a sneak peek of Terra's new World Map! 

When things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.

I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it's all been done before? Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take the sting away, but that doesn't matter. Do what only you do best. Make good art.​

Numenera is a science fantasy roleplaying game set in the far distant future. Humanity lives amid the remnants of eight great civilizations that have risen and fallen on Earth. These are the people of the Ninth World. This new world is filled with remnants of all the former worlds: bits of nanotechnology, the dataweb threaded among still-orbiting satellites, bio-engineered creatures, and myriad strange and wondrous devices. These remnants have become known as the numenera

Worldbuilders is a charity founded by Pat Rothfuss (The New York Times #1 bestselling author of The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear) in order to use the collective power of readers, fellow authors and book lovers to make the world a better place. Click to find out more!