Coming up as a gamer in the late 80s and 90s, there were a few authors I saw quite a bit of,and who now are not apparently in the game. Does anyone know what happened to William W. Connors, Roger E. Moore, or Zeb Cook?
OK playing with google.
William W. Connors
For starters...from an interview conducted by Monte Cooke
Monte: What have you been doing in your post-Wizards life?
Bill: I have come to the conclusion that working in the entertainment / gaming industry must be more of a calling for me than a job. After leaving Wizards/TSR, I returned to school and got a degree in graphic design. I guess I wanted to see how the other half of the publishing industry lived. I started out working freelance, but soon found myself hooked up with longtime friends and fellow TSR veterans Tim Brown, Jim Ward, and Lester Smith at Fast Forward Entertainment. When that went belly up, I decided to give the game industry the boot and move on to a more lucrative field.
Fate, however, had other ideas for me. Answering a generic looking ad in a local paper for a graphic designer, I found myself in an interview where one of the first questions I was asked was -- honestly -- have you had any experience with games? After I stopped laughing, I pulled out my portfolio. Before long, I accepted a position as a graphic designer with an Illinois-based company called Senario. In a matter of weeks, they asked me to accept a promotion to project manager and put me in charge of the Video Entertainment division of the company. Our products are in major stores like Best Buy and Wal-Mart, available on QVC and the Home Shopping Network, and the company shows no signs of slowing down.
Once again, I am working with some very talented and creative people in a job where my ultimate goal is to make customers happy. The owner of the company is a top-notch guy, and the work is both entertaining and challenging. I look forward to a long career with Senario and hope all of my former mates end up in equally good places.
Zeb Cook
OK no quotes for Mr. Cook.
He's around. He's got credits with multiple companies up through 2003 and was a mover and shaker in the MMO City of Villians. My feeling is his name will pop up again and again.
Roger E. Moore
I got nothing. No credits beyond 2001 no mentions by anyone else that I could find no posts by him. Just zip. He may be writing as he is a writer but for all I know he could be dead.
It's too bad about Roger Moore. I liked his stuff. Hopefully he just switched career directions. What about Tom Moldvay?
It's too bad about Roger Moore. I liked his stuff. Hopefully he just switched career directions. What about Tom Moldvay?
Again nothing I could find with a Google search was at all recent.
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I regret Tony DiTerlizzi as an illustrator. I remember the wonderful job he did on the monstrous compendium back in 2nd edition : the faerie people, the halfling and many more.
His drawings were great. I know that he works on illustrated books now, but I think that TSR/WOTC lost its best illustrator when he left (or was fired ?) the company.
I also regret Carl Sargent and the wonderful work he did on Greyhawk (the markland, Iuz the evil, Ivid the undying), and he now writes fantasy books. I guess WOTC would request him to work again with the company if there was a Greyhawk book...
Sure I'd love that : a GH HUGE compendium book written by Carl Sargent and illustrated by Tony !!
It's too bad about Roger Moore. I liked his stuff. Hopefully he just switched career directions. What about Tom Moldvay?
Yeah, for a while in early 2e, every other book had his name on it. He wrote some damn good stuff. I met him at GenCon, and he also happened to be a damn nice guy.
Jeremy,
Thanks for the help with the research. Hopefully Mr. Moore and Mr. Moldvay might make a comeback at some point, unless something has happened to them that we don't know about.