“Scribed by Evagus the Anchorite, to be delivered to his Prudence, the Protospathos Carpus Asinas. On the ninth month of the twenty-fifth year of the reign of our Emperor and three months before the Holy Night of our Faith I. May God preserve you, my brother Carpus. I must scribe…
Anaya: The Mouth that will Unleash Hell
March 5, 2020
Deep in the holy streets of the city of Varanasi, India, upon the sacred land where one of the five heads of Brahma rests unseen, sleeps the prostitute Anaya, the one who was born to a different name in the poorest of Nepalese villages, her true name remembered only by…
Of Drakons, Old & New Gods and Love
February 1, 2018
This short-story appears as an interlude in Drakon Book III: Firstblade (published June 13, 2017). CHAPTER LXVII. The Stars Will Bring Him Back by C.A. Caskabel Zeria’s fairy tale. As she whispered it to Aneria. As I heard it. “You will never see the stars again, my love,” said the…
Seven Reasons Not To Read My Books
January 25, 2018
The Drakon books are out, and they are climbing the ranks at Amazon. Book I is at #7308 (#6863 May 5th) at Kindle Paid Store, one minute ago, but that is ahead of so many masterpieces that I cannot complain, given that I just started marketing one month ago and…
Dune: The most thought-provoking book I read (as a teenager)
May 2, 2017
I have a long-standing belief that there are only three issues of importance on a global scale: a) Energy b) Environment c) Religion (religious fanaticism to be exact) And they are very interrelated. Energy is something we all need, but we are consuming it in a manner that destroys the…
Be on Facebook or be extinct. 7 reasons you should post now.
March 8, 2017
Humans, you have been warned. At least warn your children. Start posting now. Here are the 7 reasons. 1. Find your other half. By 2025, you will be able to find your perfect match and more importantly avoid the perfect disaster based on years of your anonymized (chill) FB data.…
Meet Circe. She’ll love you to death.
February 27, 2017
Back to the book. And so you finished the book, shivering cold with excitement in the middle of July. And here comes the big test: you start passing it around to people. Most likely you have some friends who read a lot, though that does not make them professional editors.…
Interlude I. The first-person voice
February 22, 2017
Interlude definition: an annoying way to bloat up a book that was already too big by adding a completely irrelevant, at best tangential story. Interlude. A short break from the history of writing Drakon. Drakon is written in a first-person voice. Actually, two first-person voices; the primary one is the…
Who do you think refugees are?
September 25, 2016
Who do you think refugees are? #refugenes A great post by Neil Gaiman to share https://www.facebook.com/neilgaiman/videos/10153770911801016/ Who do you think refugees are? Who do you think barbarians are? Who are you, pal? Build a wall. Close your eyes. See the nine-year-old ghost of your great-grandmother clawing to climb it a…
The numerous deaths of a moderate communist tailor
September 22, 2016
So talking about those grandparents, this is what I am made of. A refugee grandma who came by boat over the Aegean fleeing the 1922 war in Asia Minor. Nine-year-old girl who didn’t speak any Greek. She marries my grandfather, some kind of Casablanca Rick’s café guy, his casino set…