Let's Discuss - Characterization via Nora and the Eternal Waterwheel!

Hellooooo everybody! Following up on the previous podcast which was a sneak peak of the first chapter of Nora and the Eternal Waterwheel we have a segment digging into the topic of authenticity and characterization through the lens of said novel! Tune in as we discuss maintaining authenticity to your narrative, your characters, and your readers as well as betraying expectations the right way.


If this peaked your interest head on over to https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DBGMQ51 for an eBook or https://www.amazon.com/dp/1983007137/ for a paperback copy, and stay tuned for the second novel in Tanielle’s travels “Nora and the Realm of Whispers” dropping Winter 2020!

Book Previews Episode 2: Nora and the Eternal Waterwheel

This hiatus was longer than intended...

Welcome back everybody! Eugene The Author here is some great new content for you! This week get a sneak peak at my all ages novel Nora and the Eternal Waterwheel.

Nora Book 1 follows the exploits of Tanielle Travers as she endures the difficulties that come with high school life. There's school bullies, pressures to fit in, staff that don't understand her blended household, visions of a far off kingdom under siege by demons far and wide, nightmares of a knight in flames pursuing her across dimensional rifts, warlocks attacking her home, spider demons, etcetera.

Y'know, just another day in school!

Tanielle must awaken to the truth that she is in fact Princess Nora Ivandrea, stranded on Earth with her memories fractured after a horrific attack by the emissary of darkness, The Tall Man, who seeks to drag her back to his dark master. To make matters worse, her mother the queen is missing beyond the veil of The Creeping Darkness and her only guardian in a strange new world is the very sorcerer turned magus responsible for the fall of the royal household!

Will Tanielle prove equal to the task, or will the darkness have its day?

If you enjoy the novel, head on over to the Store section for links to my Amazon page where you can order paperbacks, eBooks and soon audio books as well!

This is Eugene the Author saying be blessed, be amazing, you already are!

Spotlight on Kill All Christians Book 1: In the Village of the Devil's Daughters

Available now on Amazon with a limited time sale price of $4.99 for the Kindle Edition!

What is it about?

Kill All Christians Book 1: In the Village of the Devil’s Daughters is a story about a young man named Moon and his dark blood companion Fox trying to survive in a world where all forms Christianity has been outlawed. 99.8 percent of Christians in the world were slaughtered in a three-month massacre known as The Liberation, and the world left behind is shaped by demons and their followers. This is a world without morality. People often say they’d love a world of nothing but moral grey, but Kill All Christians shows what that would really be like.

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The Three Categories of My Novels

Salutations! Today I'd like to talk about the three levels of content/maturity that each of my novels fall under.

One of the things I'm a firm believer of, is being open and honest with my fan base. To me, to create a series and draw people in, having every aspect of it appear to represent a certain set of purpose, morality and narrative flow, only to at the last minute once you've gained a following and a steady stream of cash throw in something that completely changes and turns on its head everything I told you I was about is the height of cowardice and sneaky marketing. Consider that harsh, and a run on sentence. I'll accept that it's one of those things.

I have no desire to draw you in, make my money in a safe way, then flip the script and exclaim "JUST KIDDING, YOU THOUGHT THIS STORY AND THESE CHARACTERS WERE LIKE THIS BUT I CAN MAKE MORE MONEY LIKE THIS!"

I also would never want a young reader who enjoys, say upcoming all ages novel Nora and the Eternal Waterwheel to see my name on Murder the Citizens, think the novel is safe for them to read and suddenly be thrust into a far more maturely written world. To that end, I established three levels to my novels:

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On Writing Badass Female Leads

A lot of the protagonists in my retinue are female leads of varying age and ethnicity. To be quite honest, this was somewhat accidental. I consider my novels to be broken up into four primary "ages" in history. The True Mythology series encompasses the warriors of legend that helped forge the world the protagonists live in today. The Era of Conflict is how the high holy orders that stand above all the others were established. The Modern Age is where you dear readers come in, with such fascinating reads as the upcoming Murder the Citizens: Hunger, Tribus Dulce, Ochre Alleycat, Pretty Little Whispers, In Defense of the Heart. These stories take place in or around the bubble of 2017, plus or minus ten or so years.

Well, when I began writing all of these narratives, I realized that I had a bit of an abundance of male leads and not enough female leads. What's more, an over abundance of narratives that seem only to know how to sell a female lead by stripping her of her clothing and having her defined by little more than sexuality and ambiguity cemented the necessity for a higher caliber of heroine.

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A Rondo of Tales...

Salutations et all! Welcome to the new official website of me, Eugene the Author. I thought it best to begin with a post that introduces you to who I am, and what I'm about.

As my intro stated, I am a minister and a Christian fringe ministry novelist, but, what does that really mean? Well, perhaps the best way to explain it is to begin with a few things you'll find in my books that you won't in other Christian artists.

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