I write urban fantasy, myth-based fantasy, and dark fantasy fiction.
As a kid I consumed books and comics by the truckloads, reading anything from fantasy to westerns to science fiction. I wrote my first short story at age 12 and soon thereafter began creating my own comic books, drawing little stick figures with dialogue balloons that...
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I write urban fantasy, myth-based fantasy, and dark fantasy fiction.
As a kid I consumed books and comics by the truckloads, reading anything from fantasy to westerns to science fiction. I wrote my first short story at age 12 and soon thereafter began creating my own comic books, drawing little stick figures with dialogue balloons that later evolved into musclebound warriors and scantly clad vixens. Alas, life kept interfering and I allowed it, and so nothing came from my artistic endeavours.
After graduating high school I served a year in the military where I learned how to dig trenches, eat quickly, and miss girls. I then travelled to Israel and lived on a Kibbutz for eight months, working in avocado fields and drinking cheap vodka. For a while thereafter I sold pots and pans and educational toys in Africa and almost got shot in Zimbabwe. I did a brief stint as a cartoonist somewhere and an even briefer stint as reporter somewhere else. Somehow, and maybe by accident, I ended up in law school and became a lawyer. I did that for almost a decade.
These days I'm back to writing stories--a calling I ignored for far too long. I now live in New Zealand, and with a wife and kids, and a dog, I'll stay put for the foreseeable future. Not that I've a choice here. My kids are too adorable, my wife is too beautiful and the dog, too damn loyal.
Please visit me on the web at wo3lf.wordpress.com, tweet @Woelf20 or find me on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/woelf.dietrich
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