Despite my experience with blogs, I had never actually thought about writing a book until around 2006. I was rereading The Chronicles of Dragonlance (which I had first read in 1997), and although I had great memories of the story, I found myself quite disappointed during the reread. I was discussing this with a colleague at work and said something like, “I think I could do better than this.” She responded, “Why don’t you write your own books?” I decided to take her suggestion and started developing my own stories.
Using events I had planned for the RPG campaign that never happened as a foundation, I began writing The Path of Vengeance, a book that would tell the story of Aglarion, a mage who wouldn’t be a hero and wouldn’t aim to save the world from Evil. I also planned a series of several books that would continue this narrative, resulting in the The Herannon Chronicles project.
