We continue this week spending time with Tracy Hickman. We had such a great time and just didn’t stop. At first, it was beginning to look like a bonus show but before we knew it we had enough to release another entire show. Be sure also to listen to the first part.

Before the Tracy we knew, Tracy had a variety of jobs. Some of these included a drill press operator, a glass worker, a movie projectionist, and a supermaket stockboy. He approached TSR in 1981 and found himself with a new job; one which would lead him to work with Margaret Weis on the Dragonlance Chronicles. He now lives in St. George, Utah with his wife Laura and continues to entertain us with his work.

The world of Ravenloft was born of a single adventure. Tracy first built the castle to have some authenticity and to make a reasonable setting for a vampire. After a few iterations and over a few Halloween game sessions, Ravenloft made its way to print.

Pharaoh is but one example of the integration of moral fiber Tracy instills in his work. It is an adventure and a story about a pharaoh that hoarded treasure and enslaved his people to build a theft proof tome and found himself cursed to walk the earth until the tome was broken into.

One of the more recent projects is the podcast production of The Immortals, a future story of United States Internment Camps. This best selling novel was written by Tracy Hickman and preformed by both Tracy and Laura Hickman.

Be sure to join Tracy and Laura Hickman at the Dragonhearth; a home for creative minds to discuss speculative fiction. They have a great podcast. Tracy invites us to listen to all of them of course but points out the Halloween episode in particular where he reads Stephen Leacock’s "Buggham Grange: A Good Old Ghost Story".