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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ha-gieden" data-source="post: 3373273" data-attributes="member: 50207">New HereHello!  Where to start?  I've gamed for many years under many different systems, including a few that I created when I got bored with everything else.  I'm a very creative person with a fairly short attention span  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Just over two years ago, I completed my first novel.  I sent it in to a publisher and was promptly rejected.  I trashed the manuscript and started over, only to discover that the publisher that I had sent it to never published anything like what I had sent 'em.  Ah, well!  My second novel was thrilling to work on.  It was my own creation; a post-apocalyptic high fantasy adventure featuring a female main character and a unique system of magic.  I found a likely publisher, and sent it in thinking "at least these people get back to authors quickly...if I'm rejected, I can send it out again soon".  I was accepted!  Yay!  Well, I'm a gamer through and through, and while I was writing this second novel, I wanted to make sure that the rules that governed the world and magic stayed consistent.  I kept up a second document where I had everything written in game terms.  My husband loved it and wanted to playtest it, and thus my RPG, "Gieden" was born.  I sent it to the same publisher that accepted the novel, pitched it as a tie-in, and WHAMO, success!  Since then I've had two shorter works accepted, I've started working on supplements, and I've begun work on yet another game, this one a collaborative effort.  I've had no further rejections.  Needless to say, I'm absolutely thrilled to be able to officially call myself an author, and look forward to holding the first copy of my own work in my hands.  I want to branch out and try as many new things as possible, and am considering doing a graphic novel next.  I have never had very good luck at forums.  I always end up getting attacked, and never on the merits of my posts.  If I say that I'm published, people run down my publisher.  If I welcome someone to check out my MySpace page, someone jumps in with their opinion on my appearance.  If I mention my experience fighting (martial arts, fencing), someone makes a snide remark about my gender.  Bleh.  I hope none of that happens here.    Anyway, all of that said (and it's a lot...I guess being a writer shows <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> )  I'm a die-hard 2nd Ed fan who has tacked on so many house rules that it's gotten ridiculous.  I also really like Mage, and I play Vampire, Changeling, Deliria, and Shadowrun on occasion.  I have three kids, two dogs, four cats, and a snake.    Now you all know far too much about me.   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" />   So, "Hello!"</blockquote>

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