J.C. Staudt

J.C. Staudt was born in Oceanside, New York, and moved to Virginia at the age of four, where he has lived ever since. He is a graduate of George Mason University, with a B.A. in Integrative Multimedia Studies, and he works for an Engineering and Consulting firm as a New Media Designer. He lives with his beautiful wife in a house lacking pets and children in Manassas, Virginia.

Staudt has been an unrepentant nerd for three decades and counting. He spends his weekends playing D&D and theorizing about every possible plot twist and untimely death (and undeath) that might occur in the next Game of Thrones novel. He writes science-fiction and fantasy across four distinct universes:

The Aionach - A dying world whose sun is so hot and close it's turned the entire planet into a wasteland. For fans of the Fallout video games, the Mad Max movies, and Stephen King's Dark Tower novels.

Esperon - A planet shattered centuries ago after a cataclysmic event of unknown origin, which gave rise to super-human beings called techsouls and islands that float on an anti-gravitational element called driftmetal.

The Five Realms - A vibrant fantasy world full of goblins, elves, and dragons, where everyone talks like they're fresh off the boat from middle-ages Europe. You know the place. Magic and nature exist in polar opposition to one another, so magic users battle nature users like a fantasy rendition of crips and bloods.

New Detroit - a near-future rendition of an American city whose revived population can be attributed to a weakening in the fabric between our world and the next, from whence magic and supernatural creatures have been pouring through for decades.

Find him on Twitter @JCStaudtWrites or on his website, jcstaudt.com