 In the spring of 2009, Tracy Hickman met Howard Tayler at the "Life, the Universe, & Everything" symposium at Brigham Young University.Tracy and his son Curtis had been working on a book about radical game techniques for over three years but had been unable to secure a game publisher for their work.After discussions with Howard Tayler and his wife and publishing partner Sandra Tayler, it was determined that the book could be produced through Tayler's own publishing imprint.