There has never been a time in my life when I haven’t thought about storytelling. I wake up, shower, and go to sleep with it. Before I even knew how to spell my name, I was asking the servers in my father’s restaurant to record the many fictional scenarios running rampant in my head. When I couldn’t find willing assistants, I used tape recorders to flush the stories out, resulting in a stack of hour-long cassettes filled with the incoherent ramblings of an overeager, ADHD-riddled preschooler. When I turned nine, I convinced my father to fly me to New York City to solicit my comic book series to the receptionist at DC Comics. While that didn’t pan out, I knew I had a penchant for the written word when my third-grade creative writing teacher announced to the school that he had never met a more gifted student. Until graduate school, I was considered a literary prodigy, a favorite of my classmates and professors. All that attention prompted me to query my first book to publishers at the tender age of fourteen. In high school, I completed my first ninety-thousand-word novel, The Nomad. I eventually received my BA in English from the University of South Florida while pursuing an MA in Ancient History.
In 2017, I started work on the Aenya Series with Ages of Aenya, which was followed by The Princess of Aenya and The Feral Girl. After my father’s passing in 2023, I sold my pizza business to fully devote myself to literary excellence. The fourth book in the series and the first Aenya YA story, The Magiq of Aenya, is slated for an early 2025 release.
The Art of Storytelling 
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