I was told in no uncertain terms by my team that it is absolutely abysmal that I haven’t written anything here since May. The thing is, I have the tendency to get bored rather swiftly with any aspect of my artistic career that doesn’t directly involve creation or community engagement.
I’m something of an introvert with outgoing tendencies, and as a result aside from a powerful need to go shopping for vinyls. As a result, the self-isolation aspect of our present dreadfully awful condition isn’t much of a problem for me. I’m blessed enough to have a day job that allows me work from home, I can be an author anywhere, and I find often times books keep better company than people (sorry, not sorry).
That being said, this time of isolation can be difficult for many people the world over, and for many others downright unsafe. Aside from being a kick ass writer of speculative fiction across every genre and composer of dope instrumentals, I’m a minister of the gospel specializing in fringe ministry and on the spot ministry. Isolating makes the latter considerably more difficult, but, technology does make outreach easier.
Read moreSalutations! 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:
Read moreSalutations 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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