Rising of a Mage (21 page)

J
.M. Fosberg was born in Springfield, Missouri in 1987. He grew up in Belton, Mo, and bounced around the Kansas City area throughout high school. His dad gave him a copy of The Hobbit when he was nine and he’s been losing himself in books ever since. In 2005 he joined the Marine Corps, and started writing his first book Rising of a Mage in 2007 on his second deployment to Iraq.

He has an amazing wife named Sara, and three children, daughter Mariah, and sons Logan and Dominic. He has two dogs and three fish tanks.

He is currently working on his second book, and the sequel to Rising of a Mage, Gods and Magic which he plans to release in 2013.