R.J. Hanson

RJ Hanson began his love for all things fantasy at the age of 5. In 1978, when his mother bought him the Rankin & Bass production of The Hobbit, a 24 page read along with the record children’s book, RJ’s imagination was opened to a new world. Reading Tolkien, R.A. Salvatore, Terry Brooks, and even Stephen King, RJ began constructing worlds and characters of his own. RJ began his writing career at forty-five. During the course of his life he accumulated a number of real-world experiences that have served to give him a unique understanding of the human condition and a perspective that gives his writing an honest grit. He has also benefited from years of training ranging from interview and interrogation techniques to hand to hand combat to SWAT tactics. RJ is a certified Firearms Instructor and Linguistic Statement Analyst. He also enjoys the distinction of having scored a touch, or ‘touche’, against an Olympic fencer during a pickup match in college. He’s really too proud of it. In his youth he worked as a cowboy having grown up on a small ranch in north Texas. At the age of 16 he was selected for the TAMS (Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science) project at the University of North Texas. In his spare time, RJ has studied medieval combat and military tactics as well as arms and armaments of various cultures and times. RJ plays in a weekly pen and paper RPG game (Rolemaster) with some close family and friends and some of the characters played have been around since 1996! His adult children like to joke that some of the characters are older than they are. RJ and his wife, Michelle, live on a small ranch where they maintain a modest herd of cattle, three dogs, Great Danes Pinker and Rose, and Collie/Blue healer mix June-Bug, and a variety of barn cats. “Hanson’s very visceral writing style captures the breathtaking excitement, terror, and wonder of fantasy adventure that I’ve found in roleplaying, computer gaming, and classics of the genre…but is so often lacking in contemporary offerings. The mental world inhabited by his characters is very well developed. Combat scenes are invariably creative, well-thought, and realistic in a way that will please purists while remaining fast paced enough to satisfy others. And it is an intriguing blend of high and low fantasy: while inhabiting a gritty world and hardly infallible, the protagonists are high-minded people trying to do the right thing in an often complicated and confusing world. If you’re uncertain about your next fantasy read … just get this one.” Award winning author Jon Black If you enjoyed any of his works, please leave a review on Amazon, Bookbub, or GoodReads. For more information you can check his website http://www.bloodlinesreforged.com You can learn more on Instagram @r.j.hanson or Twitter @rjhanson5 You can also follow him at https://www.bookbub.com/profile/r-j-hanson or https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18992415.R_J_Hanson By doing so you will get an email notification when new books are released and details about promotional offers.