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From EN World:
So, this being my first column for EN World, a quick welcome and introductions are in order.1 Many of you know me already, either as "Ari Marmell" or as "Mouseferatu." I've been playing D&D since 1983, I've been working as an RPG writer since 2001, I've got a Creative Writing degree from the University of Houston, and I've been haunting these forums since they belonged to Eric Noah. Now, some of you may be asking, "That's all well and good, but what in all that qualifies you to write a monthly column, a type of writing that you've never done before in your life?"
To those folks, I say: "Look! A shiny thing!"
For those not familiar with Marmell, here's his bio from EN World:
Ari Marmell is a novelist and freelance RPG writer who would be even more productive if he could stop writing multi-hundred-word replies to threads on EN World. A gamer since 1983 (the Red Box, of course), he studied creative writing at the University of Houston and began writing professionally in early 2001. He’s written RPG materials for numerous companies, including Paizo, Green Ronin, Necromancer, EN Publishing, White Wolf, and Wizards of the Coast. His fiction credits include, among others, Agents of Artifice for the Magic: The Gathering line, and The Conqueror’s Shadow (forthcoming from Bantam Spectra).
Ari currently lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife George, two cats, and a litter of neuroses.
Next on the column: Erik Mona:
Funny column. I really liked the footnotes. I should really know better than to try to read something funny and drink soda at the same time by now though. :)
Raised by Sleestaks...heh. I have to say, those con rules can be applied pretty much universally to all public gatherings. I'm driven to distraction by idiots on the university campus that stop to have conversations in narrow walkways, stairways, doorways, wherever it happens to be most inconvenient.