My History
Life’s journey has taken me to some wonderful places. Thanks for taking a few moments to contemplate the road since traveled and my hopes for the road ahead.
Like all biographies, this one remains a work very much in progress.
A brief background for Tracy Hickman
Tracy Hickman was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on November 26th, 1955. He graduated Provo High School in 1974 where his major interests were in Drama, music and Air Force JROTC. In 1975, Tracy began two years of service as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the Mormons). His initial posting was for six months in Hawaii before his visa was approved and he moved on to his final calling in the nation of Indonesia. There, he served as a missionary in Surabaya, Djakarta and the mountain city of Bandung before being released honorably in 1977. As a result, Tracy can still speak conversational Indonesian and occasionally basis his magical phrases on that language.
Tracy married his High School sweetheart, Laura Curtis, within four months of his returning to the United States. They have been married ever since and are the parents of four children.
Tracy has worked as a supermarket stockboy, a movie projectionist, a theater manager, a glass worker, a television assistant director, and a drill press operator in a genealogy center. It was in 1981 — between jobs and wanting to buy shoes for his children — that he approached TSR about buying two of his modules . . . and ended up with a job instead. That job lead to his association with Margaret Weis and their first publication together: the Dragonlance Chronicles.
Since that time in 1985, they have jointly authored over forty book titles. Tracy’s first two solo novels, “Requiem of Stars” and “The Immortals” were published in the spring of 1996.
More recently, Tracy and his wife Laura have been able to fulfill a long-time dream; they once again are writing together. Their first joint novel, MYSTIC WARRIOR, was published in 2004 and they look forward to a long and exciting career together.
Tracy remains highly active in his church and pursues a number of hobbies including guitar, singing, piano, models, DVD and Bluray movies (although he STILL maintains that HD-DVD was a better format), computer games, television production and animation. He loves to read biographies, histories and popular science books.
Tracy currently resides with his wife in South Jordan, Utah.
Themocracy
How are you my friend? It looks as though all is well. Loretta and I live in Pleasant Grove after 16 years at UVU. I was theatre chair for 8 years as part of that time. Got rather sick and was in bed for about 5 years from 2003. Making a comeback. Did the film “Charly” as my last major film before illness. My oldest daughter married a Gubler from South Jordan. We are finally empty nesters. Hope all is well with you and yours. God bless.
Randy King
When is a live version of Dragonlance movie coming out?
How open are you to hearing about new writers. Our history is so similar. I grew up in Salt Lake, served a mission in Sao Paulo Brazil, married my high school sweetheart 2 months after I got home, and I’m writing to make ends meet. I was just diagnosed with a disabling disease that doesn’t allow me to do much of anything else. I’m starting the process of self-publishing, but I’m still working to get a national, or international, publisher behind me. Any advice? Help? I love your book, and when I read your bio, I had to write you.
Sorry to bother you again. I guess I would just have one major question for you. Does self-publishing put a black mark on an author or a book series. I know nothing about the publishing world, and saw self-publishing as a positive. I figured I could publish, market, and sell it myself before I even pitched it to a major publisher. I just read a blog that says that publishers see self-published authors as ‘wash outs’ basically. I just barely started the process, and still have the option to opt. out. I would love your advice.
P.S. I meant to say books earlier, not ‘book’. I love the dragonlance series. They are actually what inspired me to write my book. Raistlin, in particular, is the inspiration for my main character.