The Bio
Ryu Cope has been a lover of fantasy and science fiction since he was seven years old and first saw the Rankin/Bass adaptation of The Hobbit. Unfortunately for him, most of the other people of the small farm town where he grew up weren’t quite as into magic and mythology as he was, and definitely didn’t know how to handle a nerdy kid with an overactive imagination. In junior high school, his love of fantasy (and his crazy ideas) were pushed into overdrive when he was introduced to Dungeons & Dragons.
Over the years, he has honed his storytelling through reading countless novels, watching innumerable movies, and playing games set in almost every genre.
As an author, he shares his love of the mystical, the mythical, the fantastic, and the otherworldly through stories he hopes will delight and inspire.
As an artist and sculptor, he specializes in pen and ink, digital art, or welding and sculpting to create works of fantasy, whimsy, classic Americana, or just about anything that piques his interest.
Writing/Game Design:
- Author of The Grass Haired Girl (Book 1 of The Griefborn Cycle series) – a Young Adult (YA), contemporary fantasy novel set in a small farm town in the Midwest U.S.
- Creator/Author of the Ryu-Ki System: Sunserra tabletop roleplaying game.
Speaker:
- Creator/Writer/Host of the Bad Buddhist Radio podcast
- Creator/Writer/Host of the Bad Buddhist Video YouTube series
- Guest speaker at Science-Fiction/Fantasy conventions on topics such as: Publishing, Writing, Art, Copyright, Podcasting, Filmmaking, Mythology, Angelology, Demonology, Monsterology, Game Design, and more.
- College professor/lecturer on Digital Photography, Adobe Photoshop, Digital Filmmaking, Adobe Premiere, Desktop Publishing, QuarkXPress, Adobe Indesign