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Ron Glick (born January 20, 1969) is an American author who primarily writes fantasy fiction. He is best known for The Godslayer Cycle and Chaos Rising series of novels. He is also the author of the Ron El's Comic Book Trivia series.

Biography
Ron Glick was born January 20, 1969, in Plainville, Kansas, and grew up most of his life in Southern California. He moved to Montana in 1996, and currently lives in Kalispell. He is a community activist, and is presently active in several charitable enterprises - including runing a safe and sober gaming program called GameHearts (http://GameHearts.org). He is unmarried, with ambitions to someday change that. He is the author of One (The Godslayer Cycle) and Tarinel's Song (Chaos Rising), and he is presently writing The Wizard In Wonderland before returning to The Godslayer Cycle for the second volume of that series.

Glick's is strongly motivated to support nonprofit interests, and he has notably gifted as a permanent endowment all proceeds from his first novel, One, to the nonprofit GameHearts.

Works
The majority of Glick's work is written within the fantasy world of Na'Ril. Na'Ril is a diverse world where magic has evolved and dominates much of the world's development. The world has several continents and likewise many diverse cultures. Glick's works so far have suggested at least three separate and diverse civilizations, each premumably ordered and structured under different religious pantheons. Gods hold heavy influence over the mortal realms, and their conflicts predominate Glick's novels.

The summaries for each series so far comprise solely from the descriptions of the two separate series' first books. Glick has stated that both series' events are happening at the same time, and that the events of Chaos Rising will effect the events in The Godslayer Cycle.

Godslayer Cycle
For generations, the Gods have been at war. Two rival pantheons, the Old Gods and the New Order, have been vying for the faith of the mortal realm. Bound by the covenants between mortals and themselves, the Old Gods have all but vanished from the land. Now Malik, the God of War and Peace, has devised a plan to champion the war and win back the faithful they have lost. He has created nine swords, each a godslayer in its own right, designed to be given unto the faithful, with the mission to seek out and slay the Gods of the New Order! However, even the best laid plans of a God can go awry, and the swords were cast into the mortal realm, ensorceled in a prophecy that has bound the Gods to a new set of rules, a set that requires their creating a mortal agent in the world to seek out the swords and assure their purpose be carried out.

Nathaniel Goodsmith becomes the selected agent of the Old Gods, a reluctant Avatar required by the Gods to seek out their weapons before they can fall into the hands of the New Order. However, though his mother was a devoted druidess, Nathaniel owes no allegiance to the Gods. The last thing he wishes to do is to abandon his family and home and travel across the countryside at the bequest of Gods long-since thought dead. But the machinations of the Old Gods have not left Nathaniel able to easily walk away from his destiny, and in the end, it may take a loss greater than he can bear to compel him to aid the Gods in their foolish war.

Chaos Rising
The world will end with the sounding of Tarinel's Song - or so the prophecy claims. Yet when the prophecy is fulfilled and the world continues on, it becomes clear that there is more to the prophecy than is commonly known.

The fate of the world rests upon the shoulders of mismatched individuals drawn towards what seems to be the center of the crisis - a city at the heart of an empire, sealed off by magic beyond even the power of the Gods to control. But even if they are able to overthrow an unknown power within the city walls, will they be able to put an end to the chaos this harbringer portends?

Wizard In Wonderland
The Wizard In Wonderland is a forthcoming novel which has been declared to be a hybrid of The Wizard of Oz series by Frank L. Baum and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll.

Ron El's Comic Book Trivia
In 2011, Glick began hosting a weekly online comic book trivia contest, and in 2012, began to publish collections of the trivia questions approximately every quarter. He presently has two volumes released, with the third due by November 18, 2012.

The Godslayer Cycle

 * 1) One (2011)

Chaos Rising

 * 1) Tarinel's Song (2012)

Ron El's Comic Book Trivia

 * 1) Ron El's Comic Book Trivia Volume 1
 * 2) Ron El's Comic Book Trivia Volume 2