Over the past twenty-four years, Steven E. Schend has worked full-time or freelance as an editor, developer, designer, writer, or assistant manager for TSR, Inc., Wizards of the Coast, Bastion Press, Green Ronin, the Sebranek Group, Gaming Paper, and other publishers as well as taught at various community or art colleges. Steven has written scores of magazine articles and role-playing game products, though he hopes to match that past track record with his current stint as a fiction author and freelance novelist. Steven hangs his hat in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he writes in worlds of his own when he's not busy with his most important works in progress--his family and children.