Lizzie Stark

New York Times bestselling fantasy author Tracy Hickman calls Leaving Mundania "an enlightening and wondrous journey."

Novelist Urban Waite calls Leaving Mundania a "knockout book" and a "beautiful accomplishment."

Ethan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms has endorsed Leaving Mundania. Lizzie Stark isn’t afraid to walk the goblin walk, talk the in-character talk, wear the make-up, and wield the boffer sword. With verve, wit and candor, Leaving Mundania provides [...]... Read More

Esteemed game designer and sci-fi author Greg Costikyan had some kind words for Leaving Mundania: [Stark] shows us what larp is, from the inside — playing long-term boffer larps, staging her own theatrical larp, and journeying to the Nordic countries– to show us the compelling theater/game hybrids that the intellectual and even scholarly communities have [...]... Read More

I’m delighted to announce that Samuel Freedman, author of six meticulously-researched nonfiction books, including Letters to a Young Journalist, has endorsed Leaving Mundania. He writes: No reader could ask for better company than Lizzie Stark for a fascinating trip through the looking glass and into the subculture of larp. Stark gives us both the magic [...]... Read More

Awesome short story writer Stacey Richter endorses Leaving Mundania!

Author and sociologist Gary Alan Fine endorses Leaving Mundania!