[Interview] Dylan Birtolo
Dylan Birtolo is the author of two novels, The Shadow Chaser (Inkwater Press, 2004) and The Bringer of War (Lulu, 2008). He is also the co-author of Colonial Gothic , a role-playing game and has short stories that have been published in places that include the anthology of short stories, Ransom (Athor Productions, 2008)); the multi-media epic fantasy setting, Baeg Tobar ; and the e-zine, The Edge of Propinquity . In this interview, Dylan Birtolo talks about his writing: When did you start writing? I started writing back when I was in third grade and we had to write out our stories in cursive writing on paper with the one inch margins drawn on them. I actually still have the very first story that I ever wrote. It was required to be one page long and tell a story, mine was 17 pages. At this point, I knew that I wanted to be a storyteller and share stories with people. Ever since then, I have always been telling stories in many formats - writing, orally making up stories o