Writing is in my blood: I began creating stories for myself (and anyone else who’d read them) in second grade. When asked by my teachers to keep a journal, all my entries centered around a character undertaking some sort of adventure–usually perilous. And while my peers were learning to type using instruction books and teaching templates, I taught myself the keyboard by composing stories on my dad’s manual typewriter, an old blue and white Smith-Corona with faded keys. At 15, I began writing professionally, and though the path has rarely been straight, I’ve kept on it ever since. My first book, Virtual Ascendance: Video Games and the Remaking of Reality, was recently published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. It's a non-fiction book that explores the impact of games, game technology, and the video game industry on society, health, education, business, culture, and entertainment. As books, once published, are static, I also maintain the blog Reality Evolved: video games and the end of the world (as we know it), which covers a variety of current events and evolving issues, and follows the constantly-developing world of video games (http://devingriffiths.wordpress.com). I've also started work on my second book, which is a departure from the topic presented in Virtual Ascendance. My second blog, A Symphony of Feathers: Wanderings and rambles in the company of birds (http://devincbirder.wordpress.com), provides a hint as to the subject.