I’ve read a few books that give advice on how to write. I had laughed at all of them before I started writing. I was certain that I didn’t need to read anything close to a “how to” book. Wrong. Once I started writing I found all of them useful.…
No pity for old, semi-rich, debut writers
I am definitely not fishing for your pity. A personal trainer? No day job as a waiter? Writing on a desktop with two big screens. Note: the two screens are essential, believe me. Yes, I have some money, not a lot, but I can still afford to dedicate quality time…
So what about those flesh-eating warts
In fact, if you are a writer, you are sitting on your arse all day. Be proud of it. Ignore the naysayers. Do not forget them, though. You are writing for them. To communicate. Or else it is all an exercise in monochrome masturbation. But yours is a different path.…
Flesh-eating warts
Do not. I repeat do not google image search the title. I warned you. … You didn’t listen. How do you write 210,000 words in 100 days? Especially if you’ve never written fiction before. There is not much to it. No magic. You open up your calendar. You mark the…
Ignoring Stephen King’s advice
I started writing Drakon in 2013 when I decided that I had no more to give to the corporate and technology world. There was no internal struggle or debate or sudden revelation. Zeus didn’t hit me with a bolt to make me a writer, neither did Hermes. Herpes was more…
A twelve-year-old suicide bomber
I could have chosen anything for the setting of Drakon. A young man growing up in a barbaric or totalitarian regime. Unfortunately, I had too many choices. A twelve-year-old Cambodian raised in Pol Pot’s youth camps. A very smart and ambitious young German born in 1918, his father dying in…
What would you do if you were born on the wrong side?
Some say that every work of fiction is an autobiography and every character in a book is the author. But this book is not about me. It is not an autobiography. This book is exactly the opposite. Drakon is about them. The others. The ones we call barbarians. Our enemies.…
How to buy, read and review Drakon by C.A. Caskabel. All you need to know.
After three years of hard work Drakon Book I: The Sieve is coming to Amazon http://bit.ly/Drakon-BookI-Amazon Here is how you can HELP (read all the way to the end of the message to claim your reward): 1. Go to Amazon and buy the book http://bit.ly/Drakon-BookI-Amazon If you read eBooks you…
When, what, how. All you need to know.
Drakon is actually one book and not a series, one epic story close to 350,000 words. For comparison purposes, the Lord of the Rings trilogy is 437K words, A Game of Thrones (Book I is 287K words) and War and Peace is 565K words. I decided, given that this is…
O you magnificent reader of books, I need your help
ΤΗΕ SUMMARY: My book, Drakon Book I: The Sieve, is coming out next week. I need your help. THE IMPOSSIBLE MISSION: I have to convince you to buy my book it, read it and review it. Next week. But you are too busy, you don’t read and when you read…