In The Forest Of Light And Dark Analysis

1.) A little about me? I’m a pretty simple person, kind of introverted. I hate crowds and drama; I love being out in nature and just spending the day in peace and quiet. I live in New York State, near Buffalo; it’s nice but too cold, too often. Most times you’ll find me hanging out with my dog Tipper while he pretends to pee on everything. Of course I love to read, television is just awful with the exception of The Walking Dead and the Buffalo Sabres whom hopefully will no longer be awful for the foreseeable future.
2.) When did I realize I was an author? I still don’t know that I have, I don’t look at myself that way. My story is simple really. I’ve read a lot of books, some great, a lot really good, and way too many terrible. After reading
This was a challenging book to write, but that was the goal. I had a list of things I wanted to hit with it, and if I could, I figured I might be alright at this writing thing after all. My goals were to touch on, writing from the view point of a seventeen-year-old girl as she wrote from the view point of her twenty-one-year-old self, not easy to do when you’re a thirty-six –year-old guy with no kids. I wrote my character Cera to have a rebellious, Southern rebel side to her, full of wittiness and sarcasm; I also wanted to hit on family strife and secrets. Of course, I wanted it to be a fun book about witches and witchcraft, for some reason not a lot of authors take on the genre. My audience? I think anybody can enjoy this story Y. A. on up.
6.) Thoughts on traditional publishing? Who doesn’t want to be traditionally published? See your book in hardcover on shelves at the local book store. I think the goal is ultimately be traditionally published, but independent gives you an excellent way to build your platform and maybe make a few dollars while doing it. I also love that indie publishing gives an author an option; it pulls power back from agents and traditional publishers. If they don’t want to lose great writers then they now truly have to start listening to what people have to
Plenty, I will be releasing a Halloween anthology titled, “Autumn Harvest… a celebration of Halloween and the Macabre” on January, 1 2016. It will consist of a dozen short-fiction pieces with a novella that will anchor the book. The stories are creepy and fun, definitely dark humored. I will also be releasing a zombie novel titled, “Lovienthal Montague Spiritual Detective” on March 9, 2016. This book breaks from the mold of traditional zombie book; it’s really a lampooning of the genre. I would describe it as trailer park boys meet the zombie apocalypse. I am also just finishing up with my fourth novel titled, “Michael” it about the archangel Michael coming back down to Earth on a mission to kill a child. Fans of “In the Forest of Light and Dark” will be interested in this one because several characters from that story continue on and play roles