Peter J. Blake was born in Bristol, England in 1968. His father, John Blake, was a keen sportsman, who represented the Barbarians in rugby union. Peter moved to Sussex in 1972 and has lived there ever since. He has a degree in Computer Science and holds down a full-time job working in the High-Performance Computing industry.

He lives at home with his wife, two children and cat. In his spare time, he enjoys mountain biking, following Bristol Bears rugby, reading and gaming. He holds a Shodan black belt in Shotokan karate.

He's now written and self-published four novels and is currently working on his next book whilst searching for a literary agent or publisher.

Peter's had a passion for reading and for the fantasy genre, ever since around the age of eight or nine, when he was introduced to Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. After that he picked up the Hobbit and then went on to struggle through all of the Lord of the Rings and then onto other authors. His favourite authors are mostly mainstream; a look through his Kindle library will show you novels by Feist, Jordan, Salvatore, Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, Saunderson and a host of other well-knowns, but he also likes to dabble in a few lesser-known authors.

Peter has played Tabletop RPGs since he found fantasy and has been world-building and storytelling ever since, but he never focused that energy on writing novels until 2012. That year he had his first child. He found a whole bunch of time on his hands and so he started doing something he'd always wanted to: he started writing a book.

His wife — who really does not like fantasy novels — asked what he was doing. He told her. She was sceptical, to say the least, but asked to read what he had written. He gave her the entire manuscript of Reynard's Fate, which at that time was just five pages. She started to read it and to his surprise just kept going. Then she looked at him and said. "That's actually really good. I want to know what happens next." That was when he knew he had to finish it.

He set out just to write the book and completing it was the goal. Once He'd finished it he decided to try and get published, but that proved very hard to achieve. So, he decided to self-publish, just to be able to say he'd published a book and tick that box. That completed he realised the thing he enjoyed most was the process of writing, so he just carried on. He loves the creative process and the sense that his world is coming alive through his writing.

Having a full-time job that he enjoys, writing will remain a fun hobby for him as long as he keeps working. He wishes to be formally published, so he continues to look for a publisher or agent willing to take on Rodinia as a setting.

One of Peter's big passions is karate. He's been doing it for over thirty years now which has a significant impact on the style and themes in his books. All of his novels have some sort of martial arts in them, and it's usual to have one of the main protagonists being a skilled martial artist.

As a child he was always interested in martial arts but growing up in a family that was 100% rugby union focused he never really got the chance until he went off to University. There he tried a few, but soon settled on Shotokan Karate. The club there were affiliated with the K.U.G.B. and so it was he began his journey with them.

Upon returning home after University he looked around for a few clubs where he was living at the time and found Ichiban SKC. Ichiban is a very traditional school, but one that works like an extended family. The sense of inclusion and welcome at the club is very high. It has a very friendly atmosphere which it manages to balance with very high levels of technical expertise and instruction, in a traditional environment where the Dojo kun is as important as the martial skills you are learning.

On 9th May 1996 Peter went up to Crystal Palace Sports Centre to take his Shodan grading under the late Sensei Enoeda, one of the greatest karate-ka to have ever lived. It remains one of Peter's proudest moments and greatest achievements to have successfully graded for black belt under his watchful eye. Anyone who has been through the long, arduous and demanding journey to that goal will understand.

Peter loves the fact that one translation of Shodan is "new" or "beginner". It is humbling to think that after many years of hard work, dedication and study, you eventually reach a level where you are considered to just be starting your karate journey.

In recent years Peter's children decided to take up karate. It was a pleasure to take them along to the dojo and see them train under Sensei Robin Dale, who was key in helping Peter achieve his black belt nearly thirty years ago and is still an exceptional karate-ka, teacher and human being.

Peter is proud and humbled to be one of the junior instructors at Ichiban club and says it's one of the best things to see students he has helped along their karate journeys and watching how they develop and improve.

He is currently in training to grade for his Nidan in summer 2025.

Biking has long been one of Peter's big hobbies. He has always preferred to ride off-road, and living within a short ride of the South Downs National Park means he's often found out and about on the hills. He regularly completes the London to Brighton annual ride and has ridden the entire South Downs Way in the past.

He is currently in training to ride the South Downs Way again in the summer of 2025.

Growing up the sport of rugby union was very prevalent in Peter's family. His father, John Blake, captained Bristol Rugby for four years and represented the Barbarians. Peter played at school, where he represented his county at Under-16 age group, and then went on to have a long career at grass-roots club St. Francis RFC, in Crawley. He was a utility back who preferred to play at full back.

Now retired from playing he follows Bristol Bears on TV, and every weekend takes his son off to play junior grade rugby. He has strong hopes his son will be better than he was.

Around the age of ten, shortly after discovering the fantasy genre of books, Peter was introduced to a game called Tunnels and Trolls by his friends. This kick-started a love of tabletop roleplaying games that has never stopped.

He has played just about every fantasy RPG to have been published and has a regular group of friends, the Wednesday Nighters, who meet every week to engage in a few hours of escapism, dice rolling, fun and banter.

It was due to this passion he first created the Kingdom of Albion in 1999, a made-up fantasy feudal kingdom, in which to set one of his RPG campaigns. Albion was home to many adventures, and soon the protagonists decided they wanted to head off the map to "see what was out there", so Peter expanded Albion into the World of Rodinia, a fully detailed world of adventure and intrigue. When Peter finally started writing it was natural that his novels would follow this genre and of course would be set in the world he and his friends had created.

The Wednesday Nighters still meet, every week, for their regular game. These days they are spread to the four corners of the U.K., but due to the wonders of modern technology, the dice still roll, and the banter continues.

All the words written on this web site and the novels it supports have been lovingly crafted and written by Peter. No A.I. has been used in this writing process.

The site itself was coded using HTML, CSS and PHP by Peter, and the design and layout is his own, though it is influenced by many RPG web sites across the world. No web site design software was used to create the site. It was all coded by hand in a text editor.

All the maps in the site are hand made by Peter, using the excellent Inkarnate software that he subscribes to. These are all created by hand, matching maps that he drew by pencil when the World of Rodinia was first being created at the turn of the century.

All the non-map images on the site are created using Generative A.I. (mostly Copilot). This is being done as Peter believes images can really enhance the quality of a web site, but he does not have the skills or time to create these images himself. Many of the images have been created using prompts which take the words directly from the novels he has written, or notes about places and people in his world.