If you want to have the courage to wrestle demons, do this first: Have the courage to learn, to admit mistakes, to try again at something you have failed. Be Humble.

Do these things and you may not be stronger, but your demons will be far weaker.

James Daniel Ross was born in 1973. He is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio who attended The School for the Creative and Performing Arts, which he still contends is one of the finest learning establishments he has ever seen.

In the late 90’s, Daniel belonged to a mailing list for WFRP and, as was customary, he began sharing information, background, and random thoughts under the alias Ouroboros8@webtv.net. After some positive feedback about his contributions, he began a very amateur E-zine called Ouro’s Forge. Incrementally, he improved his work from a layman’s strictly unprintable tangled mass to a crude tapestry of sorts.

Then, in the year 2000, Daniel began work on a novella called ‘I Know Not: The Story of Fox Crow’ set in the Warhammer world. It caught the attention of a medical student from Hudson Ohio named Lewis Bear Pollak. Lewis offered to work as an editor for the story, a decision that would soon change both their lives. Once completed, the story was offered to several official major WFRP publications, and was accepted by magazine called Warpstone. It was just after this that Lewis contacted Daniel. Lewis wished to write a Roleplaying game of his own, and wanted Daniel to provide the creative force behind the project. Daniel accepted, and was instructed to develop something new, fresh and exciting.

The duo known as Misguided Games Inc. released Children of the Sun. It was hailed in the industry as a beautiful, thoughtful book. After this, Daniel was forced to work as a freelancer during a very slow period in the gaming industry. He managed to land paying work with BBRACK productions on their Promised Sands line.

While moving boxes in his apartment, he found his old books of poetry, journals, and half-finished stories from high school. He picked up a single scrap of paper which had three paragraphs written fifteen years before. Suddenly he knew what came next. This was the seed for his first novel, The Radiation Angels: The Chimerium Gambit. Now he has many more novels, two dozen short stories and more on the way.

He has this advice to all authors: If you never stop, you can not be stopped.