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S.A. Chapman
I’d go to Arrakis and I would drink the Water of Life.
S.A. Chapman
Hi Pam,
As soon as KDP can iron out the formatting issues that occurred when Createspace users were forced to migrate, Exhumation will be back in print. I took it down because the migrated formatting was horrible and I didn’t want folks to be disappointed. It’s minor things like ragged right text instead of justified and some fonts not working, but I hope it will be sorted soon.
Thanks for asking and I hope you have a great 2019.
As soon as KDP can iron out the formatting issues that occurred when Createspace users were forced to migrate, Exhumation will be back in print. I took it down because the migrated formatting was horrible and I didn’t want folks to be disappointed. It’s minor things like ragged right text instead of justified and some fonts not working, but I hope it will be sorted soon.
Thanks for asking and I hope you have a great 2019.
S.A. Chapman
When I was an uninitiated shaman, I was instructed that of the five vital organs, the beating and slippery heart was always the hardest to excise and offer - especially when the sacrifice resists and flails against the jagged obsidian dagger.
But when my first blood offering to the crop-angel was that of my own mother's, well - her familiar cries made the inevitable task all the more difficult.
But when my first blood offering to the crop-angel was that of my own mother's, well - her familiar cries made the inevitable task all the more difficult.
S.A. Chapman
I am currently finalising the print version of Exhumation. Expect a large amount of high-quality artwork to enhance the adventure!
I have many books in the pipeline, several of which are on the way to completion. Judging by the public response to Exhumation, the response will help me determine which of the prequels or sequels should be given the spotlight.
I have many books in the pipeline, several of which are on the way to completion. Judging by the public response to Exhumation, the response will help me determine which of the prequels or sequels should be given the spotlight.
S.A. Chapman
DON'T DO IT! IT'S A TRAP!
If you don't heed these words and proceed otherwise, because you feel that beyond the trap lies something great - then you are a writer.
Therein lies my first piece of advice - don't always listen to the advice of others. Do what you want, follow your instincts - but always be ready to bear the consequence of your actions. Don't shove the less-fortunate out of the way in the pursuit of your own endeavours.
If you proceed to write for fame, glory or accolade - you may be a writer, but you are most likely doomed to failure.
If you proceed for the sake of creating something that may or may not provide entertainment or knowledge, then you will never fail.
Lastly - don't you dare get someone else to write you work, then take the credit (ghostwriting). If you do, you are a fake and a travesty to all that an author is and should be.
If you don't heed these words and proceed otherwise, because you feel that beyond the trap lies something great - then you are a writer.
Therein lies my first piece of advice - don't always listen to the advice of others. Do what you want, follow your instincts - but always be ready to bear the consequence of your actions. Don't shove the less-fortunate out of the way in the pursuit of your own endeavours.
If you proceed to write for fame, glory or accolade - you may be a writer, but you are most likely doomed to failure.
If you proceed for the sake of creating something that may or may not provide entertainment or knowledge, then you will never fail.
Lastly - don't you dare get someone else to write you work, then take the credit (ghostwriting). If you do, you are a fake and a travesty to all that an author is and should be.
S.A. Chapman
Creating something from nothing - hauling a concept from the endless void of the mind and making it tangible and real. It is akin to a godlike state of creation, a genesis. I feel that concept more particularly applies to the fantasy/science fiction genre with a created reality that seems to exist beyond our own, wherein the reader can become engrossed and partake in escapism or question the very nature of things in our existence.
S.A. Chapman
I tell them to go for a walk... Just kidding.
As I have a full-time job and write as a side-venture, I don't really see/feel such a thing as writer's block. I have no writing deadline or requirement to write. I either write, or I don't. When I become inspired, I write something.
This is probably the main reason it has taken me seven years to finish one book.
As I have a full-time job and write as a side-venture, I don't really see/feel such a thing as writer's block. I have no writing deadline or requirement to write. I either write, or I don't. When I become inspired, I write something.
This is probably the main reason it has taken me seven years to finish one book.
S.A. Chapman
It started with a typewriter at my brother's house. I sat down and wrote a scene. I just bashed out some words, and through various edits, those words turned out to be the opening chapter of my upcoming book.
The premise of the book came from a series of obscure dreams, intertwined with my own personal musings and studies of Nature, Science and the innate mystery of the universe and existence itself.
Chaotic Nature's struggle for an Orderly perfect symmetry - or an Orderly Nature's resistance to an all degrading Chaos - inspires me to write about said struggle and the obscurity of whether it is Order of Chaos that reigns supreme.
The warlike and combative nature of mankind in its endless struggle between Law and Order (of which both right and left wing politics are but are two hands on the same puppet) wherein a general/average good is imposed - and the Anarchistic state of free will and free action wherein the strong subdue the weak, has had a major influence on this book and the series in general.
The premise of the book came from a series of obscure dreams, intertwined with my own personal musings and studies of Nature, Science and the innate mystery of the universe and existence itself.
Chaotic Nature's struggle for an Orderly perfect symmetry - or an Orderly Nature's resistance to an all degrading Chaos - inspires me to write about said struggle and the obscurity of whether it is Order of Chaos that reigns supreme.
The warlike and combative nature of mankind in its endless struggle between Law and Order (of which both right and left wing politics are but are two hands on the same puppet) wherein a general/average good is imposed - and the Anarchistic state of free will and free action wherein the strong subdue the weak, has had a major influence on this book and the series in general.
S.A. Chapman
Dreams, Nature, Music, Religion and Current Affairs.
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