Looking back, I actually think it's fitting that I didn't produce my first novel until I started to creak open the doorway to my middle age. Although it's true that the fundamental ideas for what would become OF STAVES AND SIGMAS have been with me since my college days, I knew that I wasn't experientially equipped in those fledgling years to do them literary justice. In my twenties, and even through my thirties, I don't think that I—or my writing—had attained the maturity necessary for properly exploring and delineating the complexities of this story and its multi-faceted characters. Shelved, then, for a number of years, only when I felt sufficiently tempered by the triumphs and the hard knocks of life did I finally resurrect my earlier draft; and, finding the plot compelling and undiminished by time—and highly adaptable to my far more competent literary machinations—I have spun it into the well-received volume that you see before you. Good stories, they say, are timeless.

I grew up reading 1960's Marvel Comics and watching 1950's science fiction films. I loved Frank Capra movies, Hal Roach's Our Gang Comedies, old Universal and Hammer horror flicks, Richard Matheson novels, the Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the nonsense of Edward Lear. Having lived in Europe for a few years in my youth, I was quickly instilled with an unquellable fondness for mediaeval cities and ruins, for classical composers, for old mythology and lore, and for diverse cultures in general. Stir all of these ingredients together, add a bachelor's degree in English, and you just might glean what it is that compels and drives my imagination. These concepts, and more, are what I inject into my writing.

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OF STAVES AND SIGMAS
$18.95
Paperback, 6x9
ISBN: 978-159858-292-5
496 pages

An Uncommon Fantasy Adventure with a Literary Flair!