book series

(Poem) Forges of Confusion

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Each day, another question asked.
Answers revealed only subtly.
Wondering how many days have passed,
waiting to get some sort of rebuttal.

Pounding away in the forges of confusion,
questions swirl around in the smoke.
Just a smith to get the resolution,
to get out if this before I choke.

The hand extended is the escape.
I want to take it without hesitation.
Will the hand I reach partake?
My heart aches at my procrastination.

I wrote this poem quickly for a Creative Writing class prompt. I can be rather terrible at rhyming.

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(Poem) We Give the Orders

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A group of us, in a circle.
We ruin the lives of those we envy.
They call us heartless,
Maybe we are.
Do I speak for all of us?
A group of us, in this circle.
We try to make perfection.
They call us nobodies, but aren’t we somebody?
A group of us, in a dwindling circle.
Our ides started to differ.
Perhaps we aren’t all together.
Were we ever?
A group of us, in a circular room.
Our graves state our true identities.
Through death, we now know who is somebody.

Steam and Twitch

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I’m a writer that loves playing video games. Loads of fantasy and science fiction inspiration can come from playing video games.

I’ve streamed a bit on Twitch, but I hope to stream just about everything I play. I play a lot of single player games and some multiplayer ones. Some games include: Borderlands series, Garry’s Mod, Alan Wake, Don’t Starve Together, The Forest, and more.

Feel free to add me on Steam to follow what I’m playing and check out my library, or follow my Twitch to see when I’m streaming.

Shattered Soul sequel novel now available, including no spoilers to the first novel: Amazon and CreateSpace

Get the first one, Shattered Soul: Elements of Lightning, here: Amazon and CreateSpace

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Editing Sequel

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Working on phase one of the editing process of my sequel steampunk novel, Shattered Soul: Elements of Blood.
Following the events of the sci-fi book, Elements of Lightning, readers do not have to read the first one before this book. The Shattered Soul series will all be connected, but will not give any spoilers to other Shattered Soul novels out or to come.
With the release of the sequel, Elements of Lightning will be re-released with a bonus chapter, the prologue of Elements of Blood.
In other news, I should finally be getting an official website soon. A lot of obstacles came up in my life so I wasn’t able to yet, and the free site setups aren’t very appealing. I may be picky, but oh well.
The editing shouldn’t take too long. I hope Elements of Blood will be out before December, or a bit into December. Hey, nothing like a steampunk fantasy novel for a Christmas present, right?

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Know The Author: Anime/Manga

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I’ve been a huge fan of anime, Japanese animation, and manga, Japanese comics, for as long as I can remember.
The first anime I remember watching was Dragon Ball Z (DBZ for short). DBZ had a lot of action and drama that made me want to keep watching as a kid. Characters held the power to fly, shoot energy out of their hands, and destroy planets! There was so much more they could do. The anime is epic. As a kid watching on TV, I had to wait a week in between each episode to air. Fights would last several episodes, so you can imagine how I anticipated each episode.
Mangas were a new world for me, when I was still in Elementary School. Being a bookworm, it took a bit to get used to reading mangas, due to having to read it from right to left, instead of the tradition left to right. Lucky each manga I read had an example at the beginning. Something that look kind of like this.
My first manga was part of a Shonen Jump issue, which had several popular manga chapters in it. Bleach, Naruto, One Piece, and Yugioh were notable titles.
Over the years, my tastes in the two have changed a bit. I started to collect less mangas, and really only watch anime (next to any of my favourite super wholock shows). Death Note and Black Butler are probably my top favourite with both anime and manga. Black Butler is probably my most favourite. It is about a kid who loses his parents and sells his soul to a demon to become his butler and take care of him. It takes place in England around the Victorian age I believe. What is interesting is that the manga form of Black Butler is pretty different from the anime, which is more reason for fans to read it. DNAngel seemed to be going that approach, being one of my favourite animes of my childhood. I could never find more than the first 5 volumes of the manga sadly. Now Death Note was an iinteresting concept as well. It was my kick start back into anime during high school. It was about a guy finding a book that whoevers name that is written in it dies. The anime covers on how that power can change people and the world around you.
I have seen a few authors make their novels into mangas quite a bit. It would be cool to have such a chance. If a manga writer every asked me about my book (or soon to be series), I would be more than happy to see my work come to life in manga form.

Sequel! Sequel! SEQUEL!

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Everyone likes series, right? Well I like the idea of writing them. I hope to catch people’s interest with my steampunk sequel to Elements of Lightning with not only a long coming series of books, but the idea that you could pick up any book in the series without the worry of having to read the ones before it. I hope this will bring in more fans if they get into the series after a few books are published. Or perhaps give people a variety of main characters while keeping to an overall plot.
Now it is still a series, so there will be references and links in the books for those who read it in order.
I hope by the time I am done writing the sequel, this will be apparent. Elements of Blood should be ready to go in the next few months.