Andrew Auseon is a writer of novels for young people, and a designer of video games. He holds a B.A. from Ohio University and a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults from the prestigious Vermont College.
He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife, Sarah Zogby, and their two daughters.
Spellbinders by Andrew Auseon is book number 2 in the Spellbinder series. I love these books, they are a middle school read and I love that there is table top gaming as the premise of the book. This is my favorite new middle school fantasy series! The author writes a tremendous job with writing this series. Spellbinders takes place in the 1990's when I was a kid. The main characters are Ben, who is a spellbinder, and his friends Merv, and Agnes. The three friends are enjoying a LARP session when all of a sudden their session is interrupted by frog men. That shouldn't be possible in the read world. And Ben and his friends find out someone is after the Spellbinder books that makes Ben be able to be in the real world and the world of Lux. Once again the author transports the readers into a world of role playing and fantasy in this series and this is a well written middle school book. My kids love this series especially my 14 year old as he is a role player in real life and he enjoys the game that Ben and his friends play as it reminds him of the gaming that he and his friends do every Friday night. The ending makes you want to keep reading for the next book as that ending introduces a new character, and makes you wonder who it is a reader.