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Welcome, and thanks for taking a look. I'm a bit of a scattershot. Currently, I live in Japan with my family; my wife, who is a violinist and my rambunctious son, who would even give a Tanuki a run for its money. I've been around and done a few things in my thirty-ish years on this planet, not that I have been on any others. Probably.

I did a stint in the army, but I was medically discharged most of the way through basic due to health problems. I learned a lot through it, and it changed a lot of my life as the plans that I had were drastically changed. It led me to work on my writing and here to Japan.

I am currently working on my Account of the Change series, but I'm taking a short break from it to work on a Lit-RPG fantasy that I have bee

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