Dave Elsensohn has been a sales representative for a toy store, a Flash Engineer, a plumber's apprentice, a Web designer, a spotlight operator, a production artist, a pizza maker, and a student, but enjoys writing more than any of them. He does make very good sandwiches, however, and his chili recipe might well win awards if he ever dared enter it into any contests.

He has been inspired by such authors as Tolkien, Howard, Leiber and Gaiman, and has an eye toward bringing heroic storytelling back to the forefront of fantasy fiction. This place is meant to be a repository: of writing, of inspiration, of complaint.

He lives with an astoundingly cute brown wife and an curmudgeonly yet spastic black cat. He has recently finished a long batch of schooling, and hopefully has a greater knowledge of things.

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