Shelly Mazzanoble is the award-winning author of three books about Dungeons & Dragons: Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress: A Girl’s Guide to the Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game, Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Dungeons & Dragons: One Woman’s Quest to Trade Self-Help for Elf Help and the upcoming, Welcome to Dragon Talk: Inspiring Conversations about Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It, co-authored with Greg Tito. When not writing about Dungeons or Dragons, she’s probably writing about the humorous and embarrassing side of parenthood and her truest love-- reality TV. She lives in Seattle with her husband, 10 year-old son, and geriatric dog.