I was classically trained as an actor at the North Carolina School of the Arts, earning a BFA in Acting. (Yes, there really is such a degree.)
I spent two decades working in TV, film and on stage, though like the vast majority of actors very little of what I participated in was of great note.
During those years I realized a few things.
For one, a great percentage of the scripts I was being handed bordered on what could be called "unactable". (That means "not very good".) Not that anyone sets out to deliberately create a terrible piece of "art" (or even simple entertainment).
So I began to try my hand at writing my own scripts, mostly for stage to begin. And they weren't bad, for the most part. It allowed me to use the things I was taught as an actor to tell stories based primarily on dialogue.
And it was working on a number of film and TV shows that I realized that descriptions had to be rather precise in order to communicate to the actor how something was supposed to be not only performed but also thought about by the one stuck with acting it out.
So I wrote some screenplays.
And I actually had a couple of them "optioned". Basically that means someone wants to maintain exclusive rights to actually make a movie of the script, if they happen to be able to raise the money for production. Unfortunately that production company decided to spend what cash they had throwing parties to try and raise more cash and... well, you see where this is going.
Also it struck me that in order for a script to be considered "completed", you have to rely on a whole lot of other people... actors, a director, designers, technicians, etc., all of whom will want to take what you've written and "make it their own".
So I decided to switch from "dramatic" writing to "narrative" fiction, since a novel can be considered completed the moment the last word hits the page. (Selling such things is a totally different issue.)
Since then, I have authored a total (so far) of 32 novels in various genre, including superhero stories, magic, supernatural, historical fiction, horror, scifi and even some erotica.
I'm currently working on my 33rd novel, the final volume of a quartet of fantasy stories about an anachronistic world where 17th century technology clashes with Medieval culture on the verge of a civil war.
I hope readers will find some entertainment in my work, and based on the responses they have received, I have reason to believe I am succeeding.
So enjoy.
I was classically trained as an actor at the North Carolina School of the Arts, earning a BFA in Acting. (Yes, there really is such a degree.)
I spent two decades working in TV, film and on stage, though like the vast majority of actors very little of what I participated in was of great note.
During those years I realized a few things.
For one, a great percentage of the scripts I was being handed bordered on what could be called "unactable"....
The world is changing. The time of kings is ending and the rule of the people is struggling to be born.
But there are threats rising from the south, as mad King Kullus strives to fulfill a murky prophecy of conquest, using magic and terror to wipe the Paxian lands clean and seize them for his own.
William Scribbler, known as the Scribe, flees across the world, escaping an invading horror that has destroyed his people, hoping the tales of a distant nation at the far rim of the Earth are more than fable. His only companion is the memory of the young woman he loved and lost in a past turned to ashes, his only possessions the remnants of the...
