Michael Nesmith aunts, and grandmother. Bette took temporary jobs ranging from clerical work to graphical design and developed very good secretarial skills, including shorthand and, auspiciously, touch typing. When Nesmith was 13, his mother invented the typewriter correction fluid later known commercially as Liquid Paper. Over the next 25 years she built the Liquid Paper Corporation into a multimillion-dollar international company, which she finally sold to Gillette in 1979 for US$48 million. She died a few months later, aged 56. Nesmith was enrolled in the Dallas public school system in 1949, aged 6. Describing himself as an indifferent student, he nevertheless participated
Bruce Nesmith Team was later expanded to also include Margaret Weis, Douglas Niles, Bruce Nesmith, Mike Breault, Roger Moore, Laura Hickman, Linda Bakk, Michael Dobson and Garry Spiegle. Nesmith designed "" (1990), which extended the ideas behind the Hickmans' original "Ravenloft" adventure and sought to make "AD&D" competitive with games like "Call of Cthulhu" and "Chill". Nesmith and Andria Hayday designed the "DragonStrike" board game, which was published by TSR, Inc. His other design work for "D&D" includes "The War Rafts of Kron" (1984), "Sabre River" (1984), "Dragons of Desolation" (1984), "Master Player Screen Featuring The Spindle" (1985), "The Book of Lairs