BLESSED WITH POWER UNWANTED (The Thawing of Magic: Book 1) now on sale for US$0.99!
Trained as a philosopher and a classicist, Del left grad school to enter the business world. Now semi-retired after a long career, he lives with his lovely wife near Seattle, US. When not writing, he plays recherché boardgames and putters around in his woodworking workshop (he dares not call himself a carpenter, not yet).
To entertain his readers, to write dense author's notes, and perhaps to slip in some references to philosophy and the classical world when possible. But mostly the entertainment thing.
We'll see how often I update this. Lately:
The Immortal Hulk Omnibus (the best run of the character ever, as far as I've seen, and an amazing piece of comic literature and art)
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series (just finished a full reread of all 20 novels; even better now than they were two decades ago when I was introduced to them; I would have a hard time finding anyone who had produced such high-quality work for so long a period; how many semi-colons can I use in these parentheses?)
Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven (every time I read a work of hers, it is a humbling revelation)
Martha Wells' Murderbot oeuvre (thanks to a steal of a Humble Bundle sale)