In the novel, the representation of eternal night and void is represented as a serpent. This serpent of shadow represents, initially, a bastard child of the essence of the universe, which is the All-Mother or “A”. Her other son, the Maker forms the benevolent creation, where her other child, the black serpent symbolizes a balance [...]

The Poisoned Love is a type of “love story” I am especially interested in. It’s found quite often in tragedy, and has been used over and over again in story-telling throughout the ages. It takes many forms and has been spun off in various ways in all kinds of books and film. In the Phantammeron, [...]

In creating the stories for the Phantammeron, I have been intensely focused on building a monstrously complex and detailed mythology for the book. The term used here is Mythopoesis (“myth-making”).  From the beginning, I have been fascinated by the idea of artificial imaginary worlds, and assembling gigantic psuedo-historical backgrounds for them and the characters that [...]

The concept of a “Creation Story” is one of the main focuses of the Phantammeron. Early on, when I started down the path of writing the Phantammeron in the 1980′s, I was interested in defining a deeper cosmology of characters and people behind it; a grander story whose structure, mythology, origins, and hidden purpose lay [...]

In the Phantammeron, I am building a vast array of protagonists and antagonists that drive the central story and theme forward. The most important of these is Fey-Bala. In the story, and certainly in the Amanakra, or the initial “Creation Myth” story, Fey-Vala and Fey-Lil, his sister are born of Aman and Ava, Lord of [...]

As of this date, I am not sure yet what approach and what “person” I will be writing in. I feel as if the story needs to be two separate types of books. The main Phantammeron tale is a vast mytho-poetic work in third person, that moves through a mythology based on a vast array [...]

She closed the book, placed it on the table, and finally decided to walk through the door. The cool rush of air fell upon her immediately, then darkness. Her senses dulled. Alone in the dark, a shadow fell upon her mind and sight, such that darker fears filled her mind. It seemed almost as if [...]

Preface: Before I share some writing, I want to make a quick point… One of the things I am exploring in the Phantammeron is the explicit expression of tragedy in all its colorful forms. We are all familiar with the Tragic Hero. We understand that in Western culture, often the price for fulfilling a quest [...]

As I start to enter the earliest periods of my writing, where I’m copying manuscripts from hand-written notebooks into digital format, I am going to release some early writing samples. Below is what I see as part of an overall experimentation in a much grander “search for a voice”. What do I mean by that [...]