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!

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Book Previews - K.A.C. Book 1: In the Village of the Devil's Daughters

Welcome to an exclusive sneak peak at the audiobook version of my Christian (yet accessible and badass for everyone) dark fantasy/horror/mystery novel "Kill All Christians Book 1: In the Village of the Devil's Daughters".

This novel (currently available in both print and e-book format on Amazon) follows the exploits of Saint Sword Moon and his Dark Blood companion Fox as the pair are called to the Village of the Devil's Daughters to investigate the abduction of a child and the targeting of two others by a dybbuk demon.

Moon and Fox live in a world where all forms of Christianity (and indeed even those God based religions such as Judaism) have been outlawed with nearly every professor of the faith hunted down and slain without exception regardless of race, age, gender, orientation, identity, class, etcetera. In the entropic world that remains humans pay homage to the demon barons and warlords who have become Earth's new gods in the eyes of man.

As one of the few survivors and one of the fewer still possessing divine power, Moon must partner with Fox to investigate these demon abductions while surviving grim politic with the twin sisters Hellana and Amahli who serve as the goddesses of the village.

Can Moon and Fox save the children before its too late, or will they too fall prey to the deviltry in the village in the frigid mountains up above? Only time will tell.

Hope in Hopelessness

A lot of my narratives deal with protagonists in extreme or seemingly hopeless situations. I’ve been told by some that my narratives have perhaps dour sensibilities, and lean towards darker adventures and struggles for their heroes. The thing about the thing, as I like to say, is that while some of my narratives for older readers certainly fall into the “dark fantasy” genre, I prefer to view them as “Psalm 23 narratives”.

Psalm 23’s arguably most famous line comes from verse 4; “Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” I really like how verse 5 goes on to say “thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.”

The purpose of narratives like “Kill All Christians” and “Tribus Dulce” as well as several completed but not yet released novels is to take heroes who are in the midst of the valley of the shadow of death, or as John 1:23 says, “John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, "I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way for the Lord.'"

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Big Words for Small People ~A Nora and the Eternal Waterwheel Spotlight~

Eugene the Author a.k.a. Gentleman Raptor a.k.a. Xeawn Cross here to talk about my upcoming All Ages fantasy epic novel Nora and the Eternal Waterwheel.

This novel follows the exploits of a young girl by the name of Tanielle Travers as she finds her ordinary, if difficult, high school life interrupted by a league of shadow monsters and a quest that flings her not only to a different world, but a whole other dimension!

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Spotlight on Tribus Dulce

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

What is it about?

The name Tribus Dulce translates to “Three Sweets”, and represents the distinct flavors of each short story in this novel. The first narrative carries the taste of “Bitter”, and follows the struggles of seventeen year old high school senior Abra Ostberg and her best friend Judith Lee. Abra has endured a violently abusive household at the hands of her father from the time that she was very small, and takes refuge in Judy’s house whenever the maelstrom of her life grows too much to bear on her own. Abra remains in this environment, hoping that by serving as a lightning rod of sorts she can protect her mother and younger brother, even though her mother has never intervened in her father’s abuse.

One night, Abra experiments with a drug known as Hyperion, and what follows is a whole new world of horrors as the drug awakens Abra’s latent power to World Walk into the depths of the soul.

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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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