Scott Burdick studied art at Chicago's American Academy of Art and then film and writing at Columbia College, where his short story "Fear" was published in the "Hair Trigger" anthology. He subsequently illustrated covers for TSR's "Dungeon" and "Dragon "magazines, as well as working on the development team for Dreamworks' animated feature film "Spirit". Unsatisfied with the prospect of living in Chicago or Los Angeles and working for others, he and his wife, artist Susan Lyon, moved to the foothills of the Appalachians in rural North Carolina, establishing a home base for traveling the world a...