We are joined today by Jess Hartley as we partake in the activities of a regular game day at the Espresso Art Cafe in Tucson, Arizona. Our visit was absolutely spectacular. We talked about everything from her freelance work with white wolf to her new life in a beautiful southern Arizona town called Bisbee.

She is the creator of “Forsoothly Spoken,” a regular feature with Renaissance Magazine, which also publishes many of her articles and book reviews. Her first novel, In Northern Twilight, was a Runner-Up for Pen & Paper’s 2004 Fan Awards in the category of Best RPG-Related Novel/Anthology.

Jess has co-authored a number of roleplaying games and rpg supplements for White Wolf Game Studio, including Changeling: The Lost, and several projects for the World of Darkness, Mage: The Awakening, Werewolf: The Forsaken, Promethean: The Created, Exalted and Scion game lines.

She has edited several roleplaying games, including The Lemurian Candidate written by Andrew Kenrick of SteamPower Publishing, which was nominated for an ENnie in the category of Best Adventure in 2006. She was the developer of World of Darkness: Reliquary and is currently editing Rogue Game’s Thousand Suns.

A life-long native of the Pacific Northwest, she spent the last few years in New England, and now has been transplanted to Southeastern Arizona, where she dwells with her husband and youngest daughter and a menagerie of other interesting creatures.