As writers and explorers of myth, we should realize that most of what’s been written today originated from much earlier concepts. I’ve been fascinated by the origins of what I call the Indo-European heroic prototype, or ‘hero-journey’ figure. It turns out most of what we have conceived in fantasy and fiction today came from mythological […]
Beauties, Brigands, and Beasties
Dungeons & Dragons in the Phantammeron
The Phantammeron novels have a lot of mythology in them, myth that has been directly inspired from old sources found in England, Ireland, Europe, and the ancient western world. But some of my earliest exposure to western mythology was through a simple little game that came on the scenes in Modern America in the late […]
Maymee and her Toad
In the summer of 2013, I started what I had hoped would be the first of several children’s books related to the Phantammeron. The first of these was a creation I called “Maymee” (or Maeme/Maome in earlier conceptions). This was my first attempt at a small illustrated children’s fantasy book, that tied in with what […]
