Richard C. Innes was introduced to Dungeons and Dragons when he was ten, and has since spent the rest of his free time telling fantasy stories to his friends around the gaming table. He also got a hold of and devoured any fantasy novel that came along, enjoying the works of Lloyd Alexander and Taran the Assistant Pig-keeper in the Book of Three and of course The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings when he was a child. The works of R.A. Salvatore; Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series; Steven Erikson's The Malazan Book of the Fallen Series; and Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn and Stormlight Archive Series; and dozens if not hundreds of other books, has sated, if ever only temporarily, his thirst for fantasy.

Richard lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada with his wife Lisa, his daughter Jocelyn, and twin sons, Christopher and Benjamin.