One of my first strong memories is being in kindergarten, and hoping to earn enough stickers to win a Boxcar Children's book. It was early on that I loved to read. Writing came much later but grew from a desire to explore more worlds and build my own universe full of living, breathing characters. I was always into fantasy, but it wasn't until I served in the Army that my full-fledged obsession began. One afternoon, my drill sergeant was throwing out a pile of books and said we could go through them if we wanted. I dived right in, coming up with an exceptionally worn copy of "Wizard's First Rul...