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The Fall of the Black Masks is the first installment in my high fantasy series, The Qarran Tales . It's a story packed with action, intrigue, betrayal, friendship, secrets, family, and more. The story follows three main characters - Qays, Mila, and Ragnar - as they try to survive in an empire being terrorized by a criminal organization called the Black Masks, a deadly epidemic, and their own pasts. Ragnar has been on the run for almost two decades. When he finds himself on Death’s door, it is Qays and Mila who save him and treat his wounds. But Ragnar knows that those hunting him will stop at nothing to bring his severed head back to Vakkar and claim their prize, and the longer he stays with his gracious hosts, the more danger he fears they will be in. Qays , one of the most accomplished physicians in the empire, discovers an epidemic when his patients begin to show symptoms of an unfamiliar and deadly disease. Soon, he finds himself in a race against time to find a way of

Apartment, my eerie suspense novella, is going on an indefinite hiatus. The simple and brief reason is that I do not feel it is something I should be putting out into the world. For more info, though, keep reading. I blogged about Apartment more so than any of my other current works in progress. At the time, I truly thought this was going to be the book that I was going to publish first. I worked on it almost exclusively and finished the story. I was very proud of it, and still am. As time went on, however, I began to have doubts. The contents of the book are very dark and brutal, despite the fact that there is no on-screen violence. The book itself was written to be analyzed and thought about deeply, not to be taken at face value. However, I feel that it is my responsibility as a writer not to put it out there if there is the chance that readers could potentially become influenced by this book in any negative way, which I believe most readers will, one way or another. The main concer

One of the major themes in Apartment , my upcoming eerie suspense novella, is isolation . The whole story is meant to be told in such a way that you, as the re ader, are meant to feel stuck with the characters - not only stuck in the building with them, in that physical closed space, but also stuck with them in their minds. This is meant to create a very suffocating sort of sensation, make it so that you just want a breath of fresh air, to inhale deeply. It is also meant to further isolate you, the reader, and give you an idea what being alone with your head for a very long period of time can do to your thought process. In the case of our main characters, it hasn't done them much good. There are different kinds of isolation portrayed in the book. Certain characters are physically isolated, while others are socially isolated or psychologically isolated. Whether these isolations are self-imposed or come from an external source, or a source the characters have no control over, is some