I enjoyed The Wheel of Time books so much back in the 90s, when I was in high school and college. It was just the kind of series I’d been looking for after reading Tolkien, and between Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan, Tad Williams, and others like them I was reading lots of fantasy during that decade. So the new series is something of a fun nostalgia trip for me, and I decided to re-read the start of the series, Eye of the World. I’m enjoying it tremendously after nearly thirty years. You might even say an age has passed and the wheel has turned since 1990!

The show is so well done, with a wonderful cast and amazing scenery and effects. They have of course made some changes from the novels, but they seem to be capturing the spirit of the books and hitting many of the right notes with our favorite characters. Rosamund Pike as Moiraine and Daniel Henney as Lan are particularly well cast, and have a great chemistry between them. I’m really looking forward to the rest of this series, and can’t wait for the new installments.

I have also been working on my own fantasy stories for some time now. Once I have published the Osprey Man, (which you can pre-order here) I plan to start readying those stories for publication as well. Fantasy has been my favorite genre since I was a young boy, and I couldn’t help but want to write my own version of the myths and stories I’ve been reading for so many years.

“You want stories?” Thom Merrilin declaimed. “I have stories, and I will give them to you. I will make them come alive before your eyes.”–The Eye of the World