author : Royce BuckinghamBorn in 1966 in Richland, Washington, growing up Royce was fascinated by fantastic tales such as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Hobbit, Conan the Barbarian and anything Stephen King. Royce attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington where he majored in English literature and in his junior year he studied English in England. He had begun creative writing by this time but also pursued a \