Flashback Friday: Hobbits, D&D, and King

This week’s Flashback Friday: Hobbits,D&D, and King.

I’m happy to have fantasy author, Erik Buchanan, here for a guest post on how The Hobbit, Dungeons & Dragons, andStephen King influenced him as a writer.

I started reading when I was two years old. And I read a lot. I did all the usual kid things–baseball, hockey, playing with my friends–but whenever I wasn’t doing that, I could be found curled up in a patch of sunlight with a book in my hands.

Now I was born well before YA was marketing tool,...