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Roland Hess

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Fantasy, Art

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D. Roland Hess works in machine learning at Google, and has written about art and software for Focal Press, John Wiley & Sons, and Taylor & Francis, winning an American Publishers Association PROSE Award in 2011 for his book on character animation. He honed his craft in the Creative Writing program at UPenn, but gave up the potential glory of starving-artistdom for a career in production art and software development.

His hobbies include construction (carpentry, electrical work, sweating copper), weaponry, tending bar, cars that Go, writing software, playing piano and guitar, and occasional forays into art. He lives in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, the glorious Gateway to the Midwest.

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Roland Hess For me, writer's block means that I've made a mistake. I backtrack until I find the place where I took a lazy shortcut or didn't really think things t…moreFor me, writer's block means that I've made a mistake. I backtrack until I find the place where I took a lazy shortcut or didn't really think things through, and I do the work. That opens it up.(less)
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Roland Hess The whole "Lincoln, Fox and the Bad Dog" series began with the idea "What if we stripped Doctor Who to its most basic elements, swapped the Britishism…moreThe whole "Lincoln, Fox and the Bad Dog" series began with the idea "What if we stripped Doctor Who to its most basic elements, swapped the Britishisms for Americanisms, then put it back together again?" That idea evolved over a couple of years and several false starts into what became the story of Lincoln, his magical gun and his demigod dog companion.(less)
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Tradigital Blender: A CG An...
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“A Walk in the Park, with Monsters” paperback available

If you’ve always wanted to have Walk in the Park on your bookshelf beside your copy of Lincoln, Fox and the Bad Dog, you can finally make that happen.

If you’re into the self-publishing pipeline, I’ll be uploading the typesetting template that I use for the series. It can save you a lot of time and grief when trying to get your own book reading for print!

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“Get ready,” said Dan. But why? “Why exactly should I get ready?” I said. “You promised there wouldn’t be trouble.”
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