Michael-Scott Earle

Earle Writes: I started writing stories back in the late 80's, when I was introduced to the classic Palladium game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness. I was just a kid at the time, and didn't have a lot of friends, but I still spent countless hours making characters and thinking about cool adventures to take them on. When I got into high school, I found a bunch of other gamer friends and we played all sorts of Dungeon & Dragons, Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Super Spies, Rifts, Legend of the Five Rings, Deadlands, and of course- Shadowrun 2nd edition (which is my favorite tabletop role playing game). I played oboe/saxophone in high school, and went to college for performance arts. A year or so in, and I decided that I didn't want to be a pro musician. I've always like math, sales, and money, so I switched my major to Finance and then got an MBA a few years after I got my undergrad. My first job out of school was in accounting. I worked for a company that did outsourced sales for various telecommunication, energy, and office supply retailers. I worked my way up the ranks of the company until I was director of sales for one of our mobility partners. I liked my job, but I was on the road 40 hours out of the week, and I didn't get to see a lot of my family. On one plane trip, I found myself reading Patrick Rothfuss' Name of the Wind novel. I remembered all of my role-playing friends telling me that they really loved the games that I created, so I figured that I could write my own fantasy series, but it would be a story for adults, with lots of bad ass violence and detailed sex. I wrote the first four books in the Destroyer series while I was on planes or in hotel rooms. They were incredibly well received, and I was able to quit my day job and write full time shortly after publishing them. I now own my own a small publishing company, and work with a few other authors to get their work out to fans.