![]() I had an opportunity to live off savings for a couple years and to take this risk and, rather than bank the savings and retire at age 62 and write the book then, I wanted to do it in my late 40s when I had at least a little bit of youth left. And so many people have dreams in their lives that they’re never able to achieve because of the reality of living and working and raising families and mowing the yard and maybe taking a break at night to watch a little TV that their dreams are set aside. When I would get in the shower, when I’d drive in the car, when I would fall asleep at night, I would think about this series, and, to me, it felt like this is what Jim Melvin was supposed to do, to create this series. JIM MELVIN: Well, Bob, I think it was sort of something that built up over 25 years. What the hell were you thinking? You gambled an awful lot on your imagination. MEDIA: Jim, for everyone who knows you personally and your story, let me ask this as plainly as possible. Is Pali real? Look it up on Wikipedia here!īOB ANDELMAN/Mr. Order Blinded By Power, The Death Wizard Chronicles, Book Five from.It’s a hell of a story, a hell of a series, and Jim Melvin is a hell of a guy. The first book in the six-book epic fantasy was released in September by Rain Publishing, and a new installment will be delivered to bookstores every thirty days until the entire series is available in February 2008. He put everything else aside to fulfill what he believed to be his destiny and nearly two- thousand pages that became The Death Wizard Chronicles. ![]() ![]() He retired from the newspaper, took his family and savings, and moved to North Carolina. Well, a few years ago, Jim decided it was now or never. ![]() Petersburg Times, and did all the other good stuff that eats up time and interferes with achieving those very personal dreams we all entertain. He was married, raised two wonderful daughters, had a full-time job as an editor at the St. ![]() Jim Melvin has been a friend of mine for more than twenty years and, for as long as I’ve known him, his driving interest has been writing an epic fantasy series, something that might find shelf space alongside J.R.R. Jim Melvin, author, The Death Wizard Chronicles Order ‘Forged In Death, Book 1 of The Death Wizard Chronicles’ by Jim Melvin from by clicking on the book cover above! ![]()
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