Demi Harper

Demi Harper is a pseudonym of Laura M. Hughes, a freelance editor and fantasy writer living in the north of England. Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies such as Lost Lore and Art of War; she founded The Fantasy Hive in 2017, and has also written numerous articles for Tor.com and Fantasy Faction. Her initiation into gaming came during her college days, when she cut her teeth on her first RPGs: Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and (her personal favourite) Neverwinter Nights. This passion for gaming endured and developed further once she encountered the Final Fantasy franchise. After playing (and replaying, re-replaying) the adventures of Terra, Cloud, Zidane and co., she moved on to Fable and Dragon Age, and maintains to this day that she and Morrigan would be the firmest of friends if only the opportunity would arise for them to meet. More recently, books such as Dungeon Born by Dakota Krout, Life Reset by Shemer Kuznits and the Stonehaven League series by Carrie Summers led her towards a new love of LitRPG. Enthralled by its possibilities, reading within the genre inspired her to create a story that would combine aspects of real-time strategy games such as Dungeon Keeper with her old love of RPGs. GOD OF GNOMES (God Core #1) is her first novel.