Charm Wars Book 2 Update

Book 2 in the Charm Wars series is currently being edited by my wonderful editor. The novel’s original name was going to be Revenge of the Estatis, but the name has been changed to A Light in the Window. Book 3 will be titled Revenge of the Estatis.

The release date for A Light in the Window will be around June of 2022 and for Revenge of the Estatis toward the end of the year.

My Life-Long Love of Reading and Writing

My parents were avid readers, and their love of reading probably rubbed off on me and my brother. My brother is two years older than I, and maybe his reading habit rubbed off on me. I do know that for both of us our love of reading started with comic books. I can’t remember when I read my first comic, but I was pretty young when I did. We both read mostly Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and similar comics.

I remember that, when my brother and I were still in junior high school, my mother became upset that my brother was still reading comics, and not “books.” So she went to the assistant superintendent to learn what she could do to encourage my brother to switch to “books.” He smiled and told her not to worry. When my brother was ready to switch, he would. And he did. And later so did I.

I began writing in high school. Mainly science fiction. I still have some of my stories. I even sent them out to science fiction magazines, and have the rejection slips to prove it. After graduating from college, I spend a lot of time writing a fiction novel, The Vatican List. It’s about a young Harvard University professor who learns that his father is a Nazi war criminal. I revised it countless times and even got feedback from a major author, who liked the story. Someday I’ll revised the novel one last time and publish it. In the meantime, I discovered YA fantasy novels and really enjoyed reading them.

Excerpt from The Vatican List

After graduating from the University of Chicago with a M.A. in Roman History, I began writing again. But then I stopped because a friend suggested I experience life first instead of writing about it. I thought what he said made sense, but I still have mixed feelings about having done that. Anyhow, I did start up again and worked as a freelance writer for a few years. Later I worked for a World War II museum, and one of my tasks was to edit their bi-annual newsletter and write articles for it too. During that time, I began working on Charm Wars.

It’s been a long journey, but now Charm Wars has been published. And soon the next two books in the series will follow after it.