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Martin R. Nelson - Children of the Dying Hearth - Fantasy, Adventure, World Building, and Writing - 667 - Teaching Learning Leading K-12
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Martin R. Nelson - Children of the Dying Hearth - Fantasy, Adventure, World Building and Writing. This is episode 667 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Martin Nelson has served as a high school history and Latin teacher for the past five years at Saint Mary’s School of Medford. Prior to that he held various positions, including substitute teacher and summer school administrator of Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana; teaching assistant and writing coach at Fordham University; and a blog editor for the history department at Fordham.
Nelson was awarded Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest for The Journal of Dr. Rudy J. Gleeman.
Martin earned his B.A. in History from University of Portland, in Oregon. He received a master’s in history from Fordham University, in New York. His research interests include early and high Medieval Danish Political Culture, Conceptualizations of Sanctity, and Cultural Memory.
He speaks three foreign languages – Spanish, Italian, and Latin - -and is a member of several professional academic organizations, including: American Historical Academy, American Classical League, and Hagiography Society.
True to enjoying anything fantasy, the subject of his debut novel, Children of the Dying Hearth, Nelson spends hours playing video games. He grew up on RPGs like Final Fantasy and Suikoden. He likes getting into a new anime or role-playing a tabletop game.
Nelson presently coaches the all-girls soccer team at a Catholic high school.
A lifetime soccer player, he recently took up Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He also enjoys hunting and fishing. Born and raised in Oregon, he spent time playing semi-professional soccer in Romania, Spain, Portugal, and Germany. He’s also lived in California and New York.
He can be found on Facebook (www.facebook.com/martin.nelson), Instagram (www.instagram.com/annals_of_tessian), and X (www.tritter.com/martinsonofnel). For more information, please see: www.martinraynelson.com
He resides with his family in Medford, Oregon.
Our focus today is Martin’s Novel - Children of the Dying Hearth….
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Length - 46:28
Martin R. Nelson - Children of the Dying Hearth - Fantasy, Adventure, World Building and Writing. This is episode 667 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Martin Nelson has served as a high school history and Latin teacher for the past five years at Saint Mary’s School of Medford. Prior to that he held various positions, including substitute teacher and summer school administrator of Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana; teaching assistant and writing coach at Fordham University; and a blog editor for the history department at Fordham.
Nelson was awarded Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest for The Journal of Dr. Rudy J. Gleeman.
Martin earned his B.A. in History from University of Portland, in Oregon. He received a master’s in history from Fordham University, in New York. His research interests include early and high Medieval Danish Political Culture, Conceptualizations of Sanctity, and Cultural Memory.
He speaks three foreign languages – Spanish, Italian, and Latin - -and is a member of several professional academic organizations, including: American Historical Academy, American Classical League, and Hagiography Society.
True to enjoying anything fantasy, the subject of his debut novel, Children of the Dying Hearth, Nelson spends hours playing video games. He grew up on RPGs like Final Fantasy and Suikoden. He likes getting into a new anime or role-playing a tabletop game.
Nelson presently coaches the all-girls soccer team at a Catholic high school.
A lifetime soccer player, he recently took up Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He also enjoys hunting and fishing. Born and raised in Oregon, he spent time playing semi-professional soccer in Romania, Spain, Portugal, and Germany. He’s also lived in California and New York.
He can be found on Facebook (www.facebook.com/martin.nelson), Instagram (www.instagram.com/annals_of_tessian), and X (www.tritter.com/martinsonofnel). For more information, please see: www.martinraynelson.com
He resides with his family in Medford, Oregon.
Our focus today is Martin’s Novel - Children of the Dying Hearth….
Awesome talk!
Great story!
Thanks for listening!
Before you go...
You could help support this podcast by Buying Me A Coffee. Not really buying me something to drink but clicking on the link on my home page at https://stevenmiletto.com for Buy Me a Coffee or by going to this link Buy Me a Coffee.
This would allow you to donate to help the show address the costs associated with producing the podcast from upgrading gear to the fees associated with producing the show. That would be cool. Thanks for thinking about it.
Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? Thank you!
You are AWESOME!
Thanks so much!
Connect & Learn More:
www.martinraynelson.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-r-nelson-51ab1345/
www.facebook.com/martin.nelson
www.instagram.com/annals_of_tessian
www.twitter.com/martinsonofnel
Length - 46:28
46 min
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