John D. Payne grew up on the prairie, where tornadoes and electrical storms play. Watching the lightning flash outside his window, he imagined himself as everything from a leaf on the wind to the god of thunder. Today, he lives with his wife and family at the foot of the Organ Mountains in New Mexico, where he focuses his weather-god powers on rustling up enough cloud cover for a little shade.
John’s debut novel, The Crown and the Dragon, is an epic fantasy published by WordFire Press. His stories have appeared in a variety of podcasts, magazines, and anthologies (like those listed on this page). John also does RPG and game writing, and is producing the Micronomicon: A Compendium of Magic for Tiny Dungeon 2e.
Find him online at
http://patreon.com/johndpayne or
http://twitter.com/jdp_writes
