Russ Davis

The Summary:

I'm an engineer.

Who thinks he can be an author.

At least I have a vivid imagination.  Or is it a bizarre sense of humor?

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The Facts:

I was born in 1976 in Tallahassee, FL (Go Seminoles) and attended Georgia Tech (Go Jackets), where I earned both my bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering, a field I've worked in since.  I've even taught a few classes at the local community college.

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The Winding Road:

In my youth, I was an avid consumer of fantasy novels, though in college I gave them up for some historical fiction and more straight history.  I was drawn to the Middle Ages, specifically medieval England, but I've read enough to think I know something about nearly every corner of the world and any era.  Most of the time I'm wrong about that.

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However, I never gave up my love for the freedom fantasy allows.  Specifically, we can keep the interesting - some might say idealized - aspects of history while ignoring its grim realities.  In fantasy, we can pretend the average person doesn't die at forty and child mortality is better than fifty percent.  Oh, and good dentistry is a given.

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The release of Neverwinter Nights in 2002 and its sequel in 2006 gave aspiring game designers a platform to make their own adventures.  And I did.  That was the gateway, and a few years later, it led to contract work, which remains one of the most rewarding jobs of my life.  However, those games were all someone else's vision, and I was writing other peoples' characters.  And eventually I wanted to write my own.

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So here I am.