Aaron Sher

A long time ago somebody decided that "about the author" pages were supposed to be written in the third person. I guess it makes it sound like I have a staff? Forget that.  

In addition to being a fantasy author, I'm also a software engineer, a martial artist, a pretty decent cook, a very (very) amateur blacksmith and bladesmith, and—when called upon to serve—expert furniture for my cats. Not necessarily in that order.  

I've been reading fantasy since I was a kid, which is a concerningly long time ago now, and I started writing it in the form of character backstories for my TTRPG campaigns. Some of those just might be a bit overkill; I wrote over 100k words of backstories for my current game. Maybe that will make it into a novel someday.  

I live in Pittsburgh, PA in the United States with my wife and a varying but always-extravagant number of cats, fish, plants, and other miscellaneous wildlife.