Team Xylia

Barb has worked as an artist of some sort for over twenty years. Creating stories with pictures has been her lifelong dream, which was at last partially realized with the semi-popular success of the ill-fated webcomic, Talismen. Despite being called a variety of rude things by people around the world for ending the Talismen series so abruptly, (she had her reasons…) Barb moved on, creating another epic fantasy with Xylia, a faerie tale with faeries good and bad, size shifting Welsh Corgis, sprites, sorcerers, portals, and the most magical of beings, British men. Sigh… Barb is a mom of two, a guitarist, and more than a little crazy. But, like most folks in this world, she’s taking each day as it comes and trying to use at least a portion of it to create something beautiful.

Barb counts her blessings each day to have had the fortune to gather the following people to be on Team Xylia:

Kez-Webmistress, Gatekeeper:

KEZ is the fiery-tempered red-head who takes care of the Xylia website. She takes 3 styles of martial arts and does competitive fighting on the side. After graduating with a bachelor’s in biology, she is taking a year off before attending medical school in Upstate New York, USA, with the goal of becoming a thoracic surgeon specializing in emergency medicine. In her free time, she writes epic novels, makes webcomics, and takes her husky-mutt to the park to run crazily around (SHE runs around crazily, not the dog). This year, she’d like to learn to play the cello, publish a book, and hike the Appalachian trail.

Noel-Mr. Merchandise, AKA the Comic Genie:

Noel is not so fiery and not so red head, but he did marry one. He will be handling the merchandise for Xylia as it becomes available. Unless kid wrangling has become a martial art he doesn’t do any of those, at least not any longer. He does enjoy spending time with his 3 demon spawn and most lovely wife. Now he has finally figured out what he would like to do with his so called life and is working to make that happen. A large part of that is helping others to live their dreams and achieve their goals. His goals are rather simple this year, get re-settled in Iowa, and start his own merchandise business (err, hobby as my wife will not let me start any new business) directed toward webcomic creators and artist. He is well on his way to achieving those already. As to the future he is taking it a day at a time.

Josh-Marketing Director, Calming life force :

Canterrain, also known as CT, and occasionally referred to as Josh, is a level twenty five human apprentice cleric. By um… level twenty five.. we mean age twenty five. And by apprentice cleric.. we um.. mean he takes courses for pastoral training. By human we mean.. uh.. human. CT is the marketing director of Xylia, which entails making up business cards with that fancy title, placing ads all over the ‘tubes, and monitoring the ads that get placed on the Xylia website. In his spare time, CT is a (bad) piano player, who wishes to take more lessons, writes things that really aren’t epic, reads webcomics, and holds three black belts in the imaginary arts. (Die Pirate!) CT is also a loyal Brown Coat with a Ph.D in Horribleness.