About Me
Hi! I am Oren Raynes and I am a father of one, author, programmer, and gamer. I am just at the beginning of my writing career and hoping to develop my writing skills.
Links to Other Platforms
Discord - this is my primary communications
Mastodon - this is my primary social media
Twitter - This has same content as Mastodon.
My Goals
- To create some fiction stories for my video games that I am working on.
- To publish some books and share the stories that are in my head.
- To write some non fiction pieces as well. Such as book reviews and tech tutorials
- To build a community of cool and awesome people! (you know who you are)
Reading List
Some core books that I love and recommend reading:
- Elvenbane by Mercedes Lacky & Andre Norton
- Changeover by Margaret Mahy
- Starlight Crystal by Christopher Pike
- Anything by John Wiswell
- Anything by T. Kingfisher
- Anything by David Gemmel
- Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
- Anything by Travis Baldree
What am I reading now:
- Frankenstien by Mary Shelly
Recently read:
2026
- The Wandering Inn by Pirateaba
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
- DCC 4 The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman
- DCC 3 The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
- DCC 2 Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
- A Witch's Guide to Magical Inn Keeping by Sangu Mandanna
- Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
- Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
- Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell
- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
- The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
- Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree
- Animal Farm by George Orwell