About Me
I’m Nolan Moore—a compulsive hobby collector with a soft spot for stories and an incurable itch to make things.
As a kid, I built homemade tasers for fun, dazzled strangers with street magic, and tried to outhink grandmasters on a chessboard I probably made myself. These days, I design energy harvesting devices by day, and conjure up word-magic by night—same brain, different spells.
Home is Texas, where I share life with my brilliant wife and our two energetic boys, who’re already showing signs of inheriting the mischief. I play harmonica (badly but with feeling), wrangle teenagers at my church’s youth group, and summon epic game nights with the neighbors.
My Favorite things
In no particular order.
Things
Chrome Messenger Bags
Split Keyboards
Reading
Harmonicas
Trackball Mice
Blacksmithing
Board/Party/Table Games
E-readers
Spoons
Traveling
Card Tricks
Oreos and milk
Quotes
“We’d better want the consequences of what we want.” - Neal A. Maxwell
“The most important step a person can take is always the next one.” - Dalinar Kholin
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.” - George MacDonald
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” - Neil Gaiman
Books
Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling
Oathbringer - Brandon Sanderson
The Ritualist - Dakota Krout
Sufficiently Advanced Magic - Andrew Rowe
Sky Hold Series - John Bierce
Fablehaven - Brandon Mull
Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
The Dark Ability - D. K. Holmberg
Columbus Day - Craig Alanson
Movies and TV Shows
Princess Bride
The Incredibles
Avatar the Last Airbender
Onward
Phineas and Ferb
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Extended Editions)
Lilo and Stitch