Gideon S. Fields was born and raised in California. 

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As a child, Gideon was always the inventive type. His mother would frequently find him tinkering in his room, trying to change ordinary things into whatever his imagination devised.

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It wasn't until high school, that Gideon thought he might harness his creativity into something he could share... Writing. 

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"It wasn't the smoothest process, I'll admit," he remarked, remembering the awkward years.  The first attempt was at poetry. "I thought myself to be quite the dark and interesting individual," he remembered, "Looking back, I admit, I wanted to be different so badly, I didn't realize, I fit right in. Still, I knew I had something to say. I just didn't know how to say it."

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Poetry didn't last long. Soon, Gideon graduated high school, and was off to serve in the military. He only served two of his four year enlistment, before deciding to terminate his engagement with the ARMY. "It seemed like a good idea at the time. I wanted to do something for my community; something they could be proud of. In the end, I think I was just too eager to be the man I thought I should be, rather than the man I was always meant to be."

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Many years later, Gideon would find himself married, living in a small town in central California, and working on the business end of a major agricultural plant. 

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"Life, kind of just happened. I don't know where all the years went - honestly."

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Gideon decided to start writing again. The Stones of Minderland, was finally going to make its mark on the world. However big or small, he had waited too long to tell his story. 

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"It was not a difficult thing to come up with an idea of what I wanted to write about, really. I have always played dungeons and dragons and played fantasy video games like, The Elder Scrolls, and such. So, being familiar with the fantasy world and knowing how to tell a story as well as move it along, I decided to write fantasy."

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One day, Gideon was sitting at a lunch table (at work) with a coworker. He asked him what he thought he should write about. The coworker responded quite dispassionately, "I don't know. Why don't you write about rocks."

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"I didn't take him seriously, at first. However, as we returned to work, and for the remainder of the day, I toyed with the idea more and more. Finally, I decided on four stones: emerald, tanzanite, red diamond, and citrine. Each of these stones would govern a different school of magic. And, just like that, The Stones of Minderland, was born."

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