Rey Athens

I love storytelling. I always have. Growing up in Michigan meant a lot of time spent indoors wrapped up in a blanket cocoon. As the snow settled over the driveway /again/, I spent a lot of my time drawing, playing video games, board games, reading, and consuming a ton of media. I was born in 1991, which meant I was the perfect age to turn into a Super Saiyan on the playground. Samurai Jack, Dragon Ball Z, Pokémon, and The Legend of Zelda were my main inspirations to start crafting worlds of my very own. But Genndy Tartakovsky, Akira Toriyama, and the brilliant minds over at TPC/ Nintendo were total juggernauts of worldbuilding. The bar I set for myself was a little high for a 5th grader. But I never stopped writing; never stopped improving. As a young child, I spent a lot of evenings sitting at my little desk in my room creating comic books out of folded and stapled printer paper. As a young teenager, I spent the majority of my time writing at a Legend of Zelda based RPG-style creative writing forum where we all took part in interactive storytelling, not unlike a game of Dungeons & Dragons. As a young man, I spent a lot of time writing over at Reddit in r/WritingPrompts where I really put the polish on my writing. I never thought about publishing before, but the recent death of my father lit a fire inside of me. Life is short. Sometimes tragically so, And I don’t want to leave this little blue rock until I’ve chased my dream all the way to the end. I’ve got to know where it leads. I can think of no life more gratifying for my soul than to share with you the worlds inside of my head and to make a living doing it. I hope you’ll take this journey with me into the many realms and gap dimensions that populate my greater mythos. What lies ahead are grand adventures told in sprawling realms filled with action, adventure, mystery, rich worldbuilding, and characters that will stick with you long after you set the book down.