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Dean Buswell
Season 2, Ep. 8
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Join Ian in conversation with Dean P.R. Buswell, author of the Urban Fantasy novel, The Order of Elysium.
Dean was born in Perth, Western Australia. Growing up in the southern suburbs of Rockingham he cultivated a small but close group of friends who shared his love for gaming, reading, and eventually writing. For as long he could remember, Dean has always loved the idea of writing a book, often writing fan fictions that never got past five chapters, or original ideas that never got past one.
Eventually one stuck, and what was originally a half-formed concept he came up with for him and his friends to play around with, evolved into an ongoing project that would go on to see the light of day as his first book, The Order of Elysium. Influenced by Nordic and many other myths and legends, Dean has woven these into a stunning lore of his own.
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