Peter Olafson

Welcome!

You find me in transition.

My books to date have been game guides. (I wrote about games from the late '80s to 2007.)

These days, I'm writing short stories.

The first, Pass It On, appeared in March 2016 issue of the online magazine Unwinnable. (It also appears in Creepy Campfire Quarterly #5.)

I don't have a blog or proper author page just yet. But if you want to keep score, you'll find me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Peter-Olafson-1739429082959008/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/PeterOlafson.

I have been told that I have an "unusual career arc," and I guess that's so. I went to grad school for journalism and spent 10 years as a newspaper reporter. In the late '80s, I stumbled into writing about games (via Amiga World) and stayed for 18 years -- first as a freelancer, then an editor at PC Games and the GamePro web site, later as an NYT columnist and finally as author of a half-dozen game guides (most notably those for Final Fantasy III/VI) and the Elder Scrolls games Morrowind and Oblivion).

These days, I'm writing fiction. My first story has appeared (indeed has been reprinted, with the reprint listed on my Amazon author page) and I'm still monkeying around with the second. :)

Originally from New York, I currently live in California with my brother, a talking gray parrot and four cats.

You can contact me at peterolafson@gmail.com.