Rose Estes

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Rose Estes is the author of many fantasy and

gamebooks
.

Early life

Rose Estes began reading at the age of two, and as a child she was already imagining fantastic places. Before becoming a writer, she "put in time as a hippie, a student, a newspaper reporter, and an advertising copy writer."[1] She has traveled extensively throughout the Americas. She has four children.[2]

Career

As an employee of

Tactical Studies Rules (TSR), Rose Estes thought of the idea for the Endless Quest gamebook product line, and wrote the first four books in the series, starting with Dungeon of Dread (1982).[3]: 14  These first four Endless Quest books were on the Best Seller list for more than six months.[2] TSR considered Endless Quest merely a fad, and moved to diversify the mainstream publishing it had begun; Estes and James M. Ward formed an education department for the company, but this failed because TSR did not hire any educational sales staff.[3]: 14  After contributing extensively to TSR's Dungeons & Dragons Endless Quest series (of which she wrote the first six, as well as others later down the line), she wrote her first full-length novel, Children of the Dragon (1985).[1]

After Gary Gygax left TSR, Estes wrote new novels in the "Greyhawk Adventures" series, beginning with Master Wolf (1987) and finishing with The Eyes Have It (1989).[3]: 24  She continued to write for TSR by writing six volumes in a series of Greyhawk novels.

She contributed to other series, but continued to write books and start series of her own that, like Children of the Dragon, take place in a fantasy or science fiction world created by her own imagination. She also wrote the Golden Book Music Video Sing, Giggle and Grin.

Books

Endless Quest

Books in the Endless Quest series:

  • Dungeon of Dread (Endless Quest Book 1) (1982)[4]
  • Mountain of Mirrors (Endless Quest Book 2) (1982)[5]
  • Pillars of Pentegarn (Endless Quest Book 3) (1983)[6]
  • Return to Brookmere (Endless Quest Book 4) (1982)[7]
  • Revolt of the Dwarves (Endless Quest Book 5) (1983)[8]
  • Revenge of the Rainbow Dragons (Endless Quest Book 6) (1983)[9]
  • Hero of Washington Square (Endless Quest Book 7) (1983)[10]
  • Circus of Fear (Endless Quest Book 10)(1983)[11]
  • Dragon of Doom (Endless Quest Book 13) (1983)[12]

Mountain of Mirrors was converted into an adventure for the computer game Neverwinter Nights.[13]

Find Your Fate

  • Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasure of Sheeba (1984)[14]
  • The Three Investigators — The Case of the Dancing Dinosaur (1985)[15]
  • The Trail of Death (1985)[16]
  • The Mystery of the Turkish Tattoo (1986)[17]

Greyhawk Adventures

  • Master Wolf (Greyhawk Adventures, Vol. 3) (1987)[18]
  • The Price of Power (Greyhawk Adventures, Vol. 4) (1987)[19]
  • The Demon Hand (Greyhawk Adventures, Vol. 5) (1988)[20]
  • The Name of the Game (Greyhawk Adventures, Vol. 6) (1988)[21]
  • Dragon in Amber (Greyhawk Adventure Series Vol. 7) (1988)[22]
  • The Eyes Have It (A Greyhawk Adventures Series Vol. 8) (1989)[23]

Her novel The Eyes have It uses exactly the same cover artwork (a Keith Parkinson painting) as the first Endless Quest Crimson Crystal Adventures gamebook, Riddle of the Griffon by Susan Lawson. In most instances, The Eyes Have It is given no volume number. It is not directly identified as part of the Greyhawk Adventures series on most websites, as well as official Dungeons and Dragons publications.

Hunter

  • The Hunter (1990)[24]
  • The Hunter: On Arena (1991)[25]
  • The Hunter: Victorious (1992)[26]

Katherine Sinclair

  • Troll Quest (1995)[27]
  • Troll Taken (1993)[28]

Rune Sword Series

  • Skryling's Blade (Rune Sword, No. 2) (1990) (with Tom Wham)[29]
  • The Stone of Time (Rune Sword, No. 6) (1992)[30]

Saga of the Lost Lands

  • Saga of the Lost Lands: Blood of the Tiger (Vol. 1) (1987)[31]
  • Saga of the Lost Lands: Brother to the Lion (Vol. 2) (1988)[32]
  • Saga of the Lost Lands: Spirit of the Hawk (Vol. 3) (1988)[33]

Other books

  • Children of the Dragon (1985)[34]
  • Elfwood (1992)[35]
  • Iron Dragons: Mountains and Madness (1993)[36]
  • The Case of the Dancing Dinosaur (1985)[37]
  • The Chow Chow Club, Inc. Celebrates 100 Years: 1906-2006 (2006)[38]
  • The West Highland White Terrier. Its History Through Word, Art and Vintage Photographs[39]
  • Vintage Photos of Terriers (2006)[40]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 9780394864334
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  2. ^ a b "Woof Gang: About Rose Estes and Gary Hauser". Hausergallery.com. Archived from the original on 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2017-09-23.
  3. ^
    ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7
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  4. ISBN 978-0935696868
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  5. ISBN 978-0935696875
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  6. ISBN 978-0935696929
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  7. ISBN 978-0935696936
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  8. ISBN 978-0880380201
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  9. ISBN 978-0880380218
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  10. ISBN 978-0880380225
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  11. ISBN 978-0880380379
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  12. ISBN 978-0880381000
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  13. ^ Dano, El (2019-11-16). "Mountain of Mirrors (Endless Quest Book Conversion) | The Neverwinter Vault". neverwintervault.org. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  14. ISBN 978-0345316646
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  15. ISBN 978-0394864310
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  16. ISBN 978-0394864327
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  17. ISBN 978-0394864341
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  18. ISBN 978-0880384575
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  19. ISBN 978-0880384582
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  20. ISBN 978-0880385428
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  21. ISBN 978-0880386142
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  22. ISBN 978-0880386500
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  23. ISBN 978-0880387552
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  24. ISBN 978-0445209701
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  25. ISBN 978-0446361361
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  26. ISBN 978-0446362245
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  27. ISBN 978-0441001453
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  28. ISBN 978-0441824144
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  29. ^ "Clayton Emery's RuneSword". Claytonemery.com. Archived from the original on 2008-01-30. Retrieved 2017-09-23.
  30. ISBN 978-0441736997
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  31. ISBN 978-0553176773
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  32. ISBN 978-0553272130
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  33. ISBN 978-0553274080
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  34. ISBN 978-0394864334
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  35. ISBN 978-0441183760
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  36. ISBN 978-0671721909
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  37. ISBN 978-0394864310
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  38. ASIN B004B44V0Q
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  39. ISBN 978-1892076625
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  40. ASIN B000MM4IR2
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