Linc Hansen

I am one of a few people who can say I have as much in common with Jim Bridger as I do with J.R.R. Tolkien. As a young boy, I grew up on a small farm in Utah. I had all kinds of animals at one time or another. I've been rammed in the back by billy goats and rams--the kind with the huge curled horns. Yes, as a matter of fact, it did hurt! I lived what I assumed to be a normal life with a large family. I don't know many people who'd skip school to read, but I did. Reading and later writing became a passion. I was pretty much doomed when I won the first-grade reading contest by reading several hundred books. I also made my first attempt at writing fantasy. The story featured a scary, blue demon. I had just begun to realize that stories, especially fantasy stories, opened all sorts of places and doors and worlds that were otherwise nonexistent or unavailable or just plain nowhere in Utah. I couldn't get enough. Fast forward through Eddings, Hickman, Feist, Brooks, and so on; I devoured them all like a sugar addict does Halloween treats. I thought it was normal to own a BB gun at the age of five; a real sword (yes, it was sharp) at eight, along with machete; and various throwing stars and daggers. I have scars from most of the aforementioned. At age ten, I had my own .22 and an extremely long row of Raspberries that I was responsible for. I learned how to survive in harsh climates, start a fire with a bow drill, where and how to find water, and which plants were edible. I even learned my times tables. After high school, I worked construction for a year to save up enough money to serve a mission for the LDS church. I spent two years in Berlin and the surrounding area where I got assaulted by skinheads for being an Ausländer i.e. foreigner. I talked with a lot of awesome people and some crazy ones and saw for the first time how different my life was from most people's. I grew up a lot and found out more about the world. After being a VP at a company and later starting my own business, I then moved into real estate. None of them left me excited at the end of the day. I loved books that kept me up until the wee hours of the morning and left me wanting more. I wanted to create the same feeling for others, so I started writing. And I wrote the things that I love--urban fantasy and epic fantasy. In my spare time, I read and fix rental properties and even try keeping the blog at www.linchansen.com up to date. You can find me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Linc-Hansen-376536209224013/ Or Twitter: https://twitter.com/linchansen