In the early years of grade school, Lance crafted science fiction and fantasy epics using his classmates as characters and often casting himself as the hero. By his freshman year of high school, he'd graduated to short novel-length, highly derivative works in the same genres, hand written and on rare occasions even finished, and eventually moving into teenage poetry, some of which actually wasn't bad, and genre short stories. By university, his creative output had evolved into short bursts of fiction and poetry followed by long periods of nothing.Somewhere in his 30s, in the middle of talking to one of his children about how important it is to follow your dreams, Lance began to wonder why and when he'd stopped following his. Gathering up a few salvageable shreds of unfinished stories, he began writing (nearly) every day, and on Christmas Day that year, after the rest of his family had gone to bed, he began his first novel. Dragon Summer took exactly five months to complete and came in at just over 108,000 words. Fortunately, no one will ever be allowed to read it, but it did put him back on the path.He's written several novels and many shorter works in the years since, and has had twenty or so stories see publication. Continuing to heed the keyboard's call, at any given moment, Lance is working on a novel and at least one short story--probably more--most of which fall into the broad buckets of Science Fiction or Fantasy. He's currently conspiring to commit a podcast of some of his fiction.His latest published story, "Natural Order" appears in the Legends and Lore anthology from Xchyler Publishing, which released October 22nd.Lance can be found lurking on his blog at http://lanceschonberg.com/, on his Facebook author page, and sometimes even on Twitter as WritingDad.