Whenever I think about publishing, I suffer a mild panic attack. Before receiving my BA from USF, I promised myself that I would stop chickening out and pursue my dream as soon as a diploma was in my hand. Just the thought of that self-promise kept me up the night before graduation. Years later, I took a... Continue Reading →
Ages of Aenya: Chapter 4
Chapter 4 The Secret Knowledge is mastery. —Sayings of Kjus Hundreds of feet below her, the night fires spread like constellations. Street lamps gave shape to roads. Torches revealed angled temples, domes of courthouses and the elliptical walls of amphitheaters. Mirroring the cityscape, the velvet sky welcomed her with its familiarity, made her dream of... Continue Reading →
Ages of Aenya: Chapter 2
Chapter 2Jewel of the Sea Cities rise and fall with the tide. Gods of stone and symbols vanish in the winds of ages. But the children of Alashiya are eternal. —Sayings of Kjus My pathetic attempt at creating Hedonia in Photoshop. Since so much of Hedonia is based upon Roman architecture, I used a map of Rome... Continue Reading →
Ages of Aenya: Chapter 1
Continuing from the Prologue, here's chapter 1 of Ages of Aenya. I will be posting chapters 2 and 3 in the coming days, up until Thursday, when I'll be heading out to the post office to mail these out. It will be too late after that to give any constructive criticism, so if you have... Continue Reading →
Ages of Aenya: Prologue
UPDATED: 02/09/2012Here it is, free of charge, the prologue to Ages of Aenya. If you've ever cared about my writing, or this story, now is the time to show your support! Next week, these words will be traveling by manila envelope to New York, where dreams are made and crushed! Needless to say, it's a bit... Continue Reading →
156,584
That's it. The final word count of my latest book, Age of Aenya. After six long years, I am done with it.Normally, I like to put more thought into these posts, but tonight I wanted to throw my feelings out into the world raw and unedited. My immediate emotion is relief---this book has been like a... Continue Reading →
Money and Art Make Strange Bedfellows
Internet Land is rife with a very angry bunch of people who have nothing better to do than decry certain individuals for being, for lack of a better word, "sellouts". George Lucas is most famous for this, with message board posts going something like this: "Once, George cared about art! But now, he's just a... Continue Reading →
Christopher Moore’s Lamb: Lots of Laughs; Missed Opportunity
Just finished reading Lamb by Christopher Moore, a comedic retelling of Jesus' life through the eyes of his irreverent childhood pal, Biff. Imagine Monty Python's Life of Brian or Mel Brooks' History of the World Part 1 and you'll get the idea. I laughed out loud through most of it, and I really enjoyed the... Continue Reading →
Quick Blurb: Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman
Currently, I am reading Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, a series of graphic novels by the author of American Gods, Coraline, and Stardust, the last two of which were made into movies. If you've seen his films, you really get an idea as to the author's mind---he's the kind of writer bursting with creativity and who... Continue Reading →
The Window
by Nick Alimonos Once there was a man named Fred who worked as a file clerk at the law firm of Eumus & Kant. Fred was a typical man, of typical height and appearance. His upbringing was typical, as he was raised by typical parents who taught him the typical things. The school he went to... Continue Reading →
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