Darryl A Woods

Darryl’s childhood in rural Ohio, 3 miles from a small town, gave him plenty of material for stories: tales of his father’s many contraptions fabricated from old parts, angle iron, and square tubing; lawnmowers powered by car engines; minibikes; and various types of cobbled together go-carts, including one with a bicycle front end, a car steering wheel and seat, and the back end of a cousin’s wrecked go-cart. Other stories include rural scenes related to gardening, playing in the creek, helping neighbors with livestock, growing up with numerous family pets and farm animals, and playing small-town high school football.

Darryl graduated from college with a degree in Systems Analysis. While at school, he met his future wife and they married shortly after graduation. Inspired by his father, who built his own home and never called a repairman, Darryl developed a passion for remodeling houses. He and his wife have remodeled four houses to date, swearing after each one never to start another. While working as a computer consultant designing databases, Darryl spent his evenings and weekends helping his father-in-law with the family business, cutting timber, sawing lumber in his mill, and making pallets. These pursuits have given Darryl an endless supply of stories, and their retelling over the years has enabled him to hone his skills as a storyteller.

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Darryl Woods has a passion for telling stories, an appetite for reading epic fantasy, and a love of old movies. He remembers scenes in great detail, picturing the background, the clothing of the characters, and small nuances such as wrist bands, jewelry, or dogs crossing a street. Most of all, he is fascinated by the emotions and actions of the characters. He spends a lot of time, usually as he waits for sleep, thinking through scenes, fleshing out details that were lacking, and creating different outcomes. As he developed the story for the Flight to Bericea series, the scenes flowed easily from his vivid imagination.

Darryl’s favorite authors include Raymond Feist, Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan, Brian Jacques, David Eddings, Christopher Paolini, Terry Goodkind, and Piers Anthony. With this collection of epic-fantasy authors, Darryl’s chosen genre had to include epic adventures, swordplay, and magic.

Darryl’s storytelling and love for fantasy compelled him to write The Summoned Ones, Book One in the Flight to Bericea series.