J. Kenton Pierce

I'm a retired Goth and somewhat disgruntled yet generally mild-mannered veteran of the Gulf War, with experience in molecular biology, social services, and way too much retail when younger.

In a way, these stories were inevitable. I gamed excessively when younger and often had more fun creating new characters and filling out those tiny little character bio screens than playing. My fleetmates in the Star Trek Online guild “TOS Veterans” started up some RP stories and encouraged me to beef up my main toon’s bio. What was intended to be maybe a few hundred words of character background turned into 25K of story/fanfic.

Finally, I realized that I wasn’t satisfied simply consuming stories or weaving my characters into other people’s worlds. By which I mean that an Augment girl raised by Vulcans and a particularly maladjusted Andorian Redshirt jumped the wall and demanded their own, original story world. They're kind of pushy.

I suppose that brings us to influences. I've got lots of them. Too many to really list, from H. Ryder Haggard and Mark Twain to Andre Norton and Harlan Ellison, to James H. Schmitz and J. Michael Straczynski, Lois McMaster Bujold to Jim Butcher... And everyone in between.