Welcome to the Dragonmage’s Realm
(The Official Home of Robert B. Marks –
Author,
Writer, Editor, Researcher, and Publisher)
Introduction and News
So, I guess I should first answer the question of
“Why The
Dragonmage’s Realm?” Delric
Dragonmage is one of my first, and favorite characters.
I originally created him in a short story I tried to send to
Wizards of
the Coast, but my timing was such that my submission arrived just as The
Duelist stopped accepting fiction.
Around six years later, Delric’s life story had fully worked
itself out,
and I used it as the basis for Magus Draconum, a novel that is
currently unpublished (but hopefully will be soon).
Delric embodies many
aspects of me, and is therefore the character dearest to my heart. You won’t see him in print by that name,
though – at the behest of my former agent, the name has been changed to
Delgar
Dragonmage (this is to avoid confusion with a certain Michael Moorcock
hero).
Just when I thought the book was closed,
if you'll pardon the expression, on Diablo:
Demonsbane, something came along to resurrect it. Not only
has the Amazon Kindle brought it back to life in a Kindle
version, but other e-book formats of the book can be found all over
the 'Net now. Wow. And then there's the print book.
That's right, Demonsbane has finally, 8 years after its first
publication, made it onto the printed page as part of an anthology of
the first set of Diablo books. Diablo Archive will be
available in bookstores everywhere July 2008.
I am pleased to announce the beginning of a new business - after years
of being a writer, author, and editor, I have now jumped the fence (at
least some of the time), and I am a publisher. My new company, Legacy Books Press, will be
publishing its first book by the end of 2007.
I am accepting freelance contracts. If you’re interested in having me write for you, please see my rates.
The EverQuest Companion: The Inside Lore of a Gameworld hasn’t done quite as well as I had hoped, but there’s still plenty of time for it to do so. Still, I’m proud of it – it isn’t a strategy guide, it doesn’t water down its subject matter, and I even get to deal with online addiction. So, please, if you’re reading this, go buy my book! You’ll enjoy it – honest!
I am currently working at the Faculty of Law at Queen's University as a writer, editor, and researcher.
Some of My Work
The
EverQuest Companion: The Inside Lore of a Gameworld
Garwulf's Corner
Diablo:
Demonsbane (First Chapter)
On Incorporating Mythology
into Fantasy (Story and Myth, May 1997.)
A Fanfiction Author's
Guide to Copyrights (From a LONG time ago)
A Fanfiction
Author's Guide to Publication (Also from a LONG time ago)
Contact Information
I can currently be emailed at Delric@iStar.ca. I check it every day, and I love to hear from
people.
Who am I?
My
name is Robert B. Marks. I am a
graduate of Queen’s University
and the
PrimeTech Institute. At Queen’s I
completed an honors degree in Medieval Studies, and after discovering
that it
didn’t really qualify me for a great deal in the working world, I
completed a
course in computer networking involving Novell Netware and Windows NT. I am a professional writer and editor, and I
had a regular non-fiction web
column on Diabloii.net.
My published writing
includes the EverQuest Companion, published by
Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Diablo:
Demonsbane, published by Simon & Schuster, a review of Myth
II:
Soulblighter in Computer Gaming World, a film column
between October
1999 and April 2000 in the Richmond Hill Month, and a general
non-fiction article about how to recognize a true gentleman in the Toronto
Star. I am also the author of Garwulf's Corner, one of the
first computer games issues columns to ever appear on the Internet, and
The Kamikaze Theory of Poker,
a two-part humour feature in Canadian Poker Player
Magazine between the September and October 2007 issues.
My first published book, Diablo: Demonsbane,
was on the
PeanutPress bestseller list for three weeks. I
am also the author of The EverQuest
Companion (NOT a strategy guide) and the co-author of the
upcoming book A Funny Thing Happened
on the Way to the Agora. And, to make matters even more
interesting, I am also the head of the Wolves of
the North, a Viking Age re-enactment group, and a certified combat
fighter with the Vikings UK.
And, assuming I don’t get hit by a meteor or
lightning bolt,
there is much more to come.
Last revised: October 10, 2007.