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A toy castle is probably what sent me over the edge into madness. That silly castle with the funny looking dragon may have been what led me to declare at four years old that I was going to be a writer. Over twenty years later, my love for fantasy has grown even stronger. Now I write fantasy novels, epic D&D campaigns, and short stories. My basement has become an art gallery featuring the 75+ fantasy art prints that I’ve collected over the years.The first novel I wrote, a fantasy novel for teens to adults titled The Golden Cord, the opening book of my Iron Dragon series, will be published in hardcover by Five Star Books in April of 2008 and features a cover by the amazing artist Ciruelo Cabral. The other four books in the series have already been written. Check out maps and learn secrets of the world of Ae’leron on my website, www.paulgenesse.com.My current project is Medusa's Daughter, a fantasy set in ancient Greece.Read samples of my work at www.paulgenesse.com.If you want to know more, understand that it was in my college days at Northern Arizona University where it all started to come together. I loved my English classes, but pursued my other passion by earning a bachelor's degree in nursing science in 1996. I’m a registered nurse on a cardiac unit in Salt Lake City, Utah, where I works the night shift keeping the forces of darkness away from my patients.I live with my incredibly supportive wife Tammy and our collection of frogs. I spend endless hours in my basement writing fantasy novels, short stories, crafting maps of fantastical realms, and occasionally copy editing manuscripts for a small press publisher. My first published work is a short story called, The Mob. It’s your basic meerkat mafia story. . . The Mob appears in an anthology by DAW Books called Furry Fantastic.The second short story that I had accepted for publication is called Almost Brothers, and is the lead story in the Fellowship Fantastic anthology from DAW Books. My third short story, The Pirate Witch, is featured in The Pirates of the Blue Kingdoms (May of 2007) from Popcorn Press. The follow up to the Pirate Witch, is The Queen's Ransom, published in Blue Kingdoms: Shades and Specters (October 2007, Walkabout Publishing). I also have short stories coming out in The Dimension Next Door (DAW 2008), Blue Kingdoms: Buxom Buccaneers (Walkabout Publishing 2008), Catopolis (DAW 2009), Imaginary Friends (DAW 2009), and Terribly Twisted Tales (DAW 2009).