About
I am Randall Allen Farmer. I am an author, science nerd, an amateur photographer, a father, and a pencil and paper game designer and gamemaster. My formal education was in geology and geophysics, and back in the day I worked in the oil industry tweaking software associated with finding oil. Since I left the oil industry, I've spent most of my time being a parent, but did have enough time to get two short stories published (in Analog and Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine). Now I'm giving epublishing a try, and I have an ample supply of novel-length publishable material to polish and publish.
Description
<p><span style="color:#000000;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Santa’s Birthday Gift was written in response to a grandchild’s question, after reading the story of the Nativity.<span> </span>She asked, “But where’s Santa?”<span> </span>This story tells the story of the Nativity and then goes on to tell the story about how when Jesus is born, Santa sees the star at the North Pole and travels to see the baby. Since he is a toymaker, he brings his bag of toys - and offers them to the Christ Child, and then to all the people of the town. His birthday gift to Jesus is a promise to bring gifts to all good boys and girls each year on the Christ Child's birthday</span></p>
Story Behind The Book
I was cleaning up my wooded yard after Hurricane Rita and I kept getting two images in my mind, one of a demigoddess climbing a skyscraper and a telekinetic fighting with a telepath (and leaving the sort of mess I was cleaning up in my yard). It didn't take me long to come up with the opening of 99 Gods and a mental outline of the book (and the general ending of the book). When I started writing the book, though...I realized it was going to be way too long for a single book. Many drafts later (and many changes later), the book's now finally epublished.
