About Me
I am a self-published author and I live in the wilderness of Alaska. My connection to the outside world is restricted to a post office that is nearly thirty river miles upriver from where I live (Skwentna Alaska is on the map), a fixed wireless telephone, and very recently, a internet satellite dish. We don’t own a car since there are no roads out here. The end of the closest road is at least sixty river miles downriver from here. From there, it’s a taxi to the next town of any size (Wasilla Alaska is on the map too). Needless to say, I don’t go to town very often because the privilege is simply too expensive.
Since I work seasonally at a fishing lodge, I have all winter to write, and since I have discovered this delightful hobby, I have written a dozen full-length fictional books. Thanks to an inheritance, I was able to get one of them published.
At this point, I have one book of short stories. I also have a collection of three, the first one is published - King by Right of Blood and Might - the second book (To Become Whole) is finished short of editing and the third book is still in the works. These three books all take place in the same world but in different locations and are about different people. Another book (The Making of a Mage-King) came out in a single long story, but I was informed that it is too big to publish in a single binding (1135 pages, if you don't count the character index at the end. 320,517 total words); since it’s already divided into three sections, It can be three books too, though I would prefer that it weren’t. The rest of my books all range in size from a hundred and fifty pages to four hundred pages (58,755 words to 138,668 words). Their titles are, from smallest to largest, To Reclaim the Throne, The Guardian, The Fortunes of Magic, Lord of the Land, The Mystery of Planet Wer, The Speed of Dreams, What Future, Slave, and The Trials of the Youngest Princess.
Some of my stories take place in the future where space travel is as common as small aircraft travel is today. They don’t quite qualify as ‘science fiction’ because I tell the story about the people and don’t really go into the technology very much. The series of three of which the first book is published, takes place in a future after the human race has collapsed back to hunter-gatherers and survival of the fittest. Mostly I like to write about societies where swords and horses are common, and many of my stories have some form of magic involvement; I found changing the rules by which the magic can operate to be challenging and at the same time fun.
Since I work seasonally at a fishing lodge, I have all winter to write, and since I have discovered this delightful hobby, I have written a dozen full-length fictional books. Thanks to an inheritance, I was able to get one of them published.
At this point, I have one book of short stories. I also have a collection of three, the first one is published - King by Right of Blood and Might - the second book (To Become Whole) is finished short of editing and the third book is still in the works. These three books all take place in the same world but in different locations and are about different people. Another book (The Making of a Mage-King) came out in a single long story, but I was informed that it is too big to publish in a single binding (1135 pages, if you don't count the character index at the end. 320,517 total words); since it’s already divided into three sections, It can be three books too, though I would prefer that it weren’t. The rest of my books all range in size from a hundred and fifty pages to four hundred pages (58,755 words to 138,668 words). Their titles are, from smallest to largest, To Reclaim the Throne, The Guardian, The Fortunes of Magic, Lord of the Land, The Mystery of Planet Wer, The Speed of Dreams, What Future, Slave, and The Trials of the Youngest Princess.
Some of my stories take place in the future where space travel is as common as small aircraft travel is today. They don’t quite qualify as ‘science fiction’ because I tell the story about the people and don’t really go into the technology very much. The series of three of which the first book is published, takes place in a future after the human race has collapsed back to hunter-gatherers and survival of the fittest. Mostly I like to write about societies where swords and horses are common, and many of my stories have some form of magic involvement; I found changing the rules by which the magic can operate to be challenging and at the same time fun.
