Featured Staff: RavenWolf

RavenWolf MacRoth has plenty of strings to his Pan Historia bow. He's a dedicated board member and writer at Tempest's Sanctuary, Shades of Un-Reality and The Voyage Within, keeps us all up to date with the latest goings on as the History Genie.

He's one of the newest editors on the block, having taken on the job in August and he's a delight to interview (even if he did admit that answering probing questions from the Pan Historian do make him squirm a bit *winks*). He's got a great sense of fun, as I'm sure you'll agree ...

Q: When and why did you join Pan Historia?

A: Are you kidding? This place rocks! LOL Alright, I'll be serious now *S* Wait.. I was serious LOL

I have been in Pan for a little more then a year now. A group of us drug our stories over here from CZ and found a home that felt so comfortable, who would want to leave? It was easy to find my way around, you had friendly staff that was more then willing to work with us and I could get back to my HTML *groans happily* I'd burst into song if I didn't have a rep to protect. *Winks*

Q: Tell us a little bit about your character, RavenWolf MacRoth. Does his character change in the different novels you write for?

A: Oh yes, definitely. RavenWolf is probably more ME then any of my other characters. No matter what form I write him in, he is always some part of me. He has been through a few incarnations too. He is a Vampire in The Embraced in Tempest's Sanctuary...He is a lycanthrope in Chateau de l'Inoubliable also in Tempest's Sanctuary... He is a ... *Ahem*.. Businessman in The Voyage Within. *wink wink, nudge nudge*... He has been a retired soldier, a halfling, a wolf. So many different facets of the same name but almost never the same character. The only constant, is me, the writer *G*

Q: Do you have a favourite novel or reference book?

A: You mean other then my own, Tempest's Sanctuary, Shades of Un-Reality and The Voyage Within? Oh yeah!! I love Relic Hunters and there was a story I was following in the Marie Antoinette novel for a while but its been recently closed. I also really enjoy A New World, the story between Tricia and Laura I think it superbly written!

For a reference book I'd have to say Acme. It has a wealth of knowledge for just about everything LOL.

Q: Do you have a favourite author or authors? Do you find them influencing or motivating your own story telling here at Pan?

A: Anne McCaffrey (Brainship novels) and Laurel K. Hamilton (Anita Blake novels) are my current favorites. They have influenced my style of writing a great deal but I think the two novels/authors that sparked my creative writing to begin with would have to be Steven R Donaldson's Mordant's Need series and a novel by Joan D. Vinge called Alien Blood. LOL I've killed two sets of these books already!

I don't often want to be someone else's vision when I am writing. I want to be my vision of who this character is when I'm writing. As much as I love these novels there is just no way I could write Donaldson's Geraden from the Mordant's Need books. Nor could I do Anita Blake or Sassinak. But the idea... now that I could run with. *grins* To walk through mirrors, to be a brainship, a necromancer or a powerful alien with psi abilities... Yeah, that's my kind of fun!

Q: What would you say is the most interesting or rewarding aspect of being an editor at Pan?

A: How much trouble would I get in if I said the Gossip? *grins impishly* No, just kidding LOL At first I didn't really see that much of a difference in being an Editor. I mean it is a lot of work most of which is rewarding but some aspects of it, I was already doing as a member. I greeted the cubs, helped with their HTML and what not. So the meet and greet wasn't new to me. I think it is the feeling of unity that I enjoy so much, to be part of something so cool and to know I had a hand in building it. The most rewarding for me is the "Building" even if its only rewriting the HTML on a page. It was like that when I came in to do the History Genre Page LOL I'm such a geek!

Q: Last but no least, something a little more personal. Would you tell us what you are most proud of?

A: What am I most proud of? That has to be the easiest question you have asked me so far. Hands down it is my writing partners. I do not know how I got so incredibly lucky to get them but I'd be a fool to chase any of them off. Some are hesitant writers with a well of talent, others are old hats writing with me with skillz that STILL blow me away. And still more have such visions that many posts can move you to tears. I wouldn't be half the writer I am without them ... they are what I am most proud of ...