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Rod Van Blake

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Born

in Rochester, NY, The United States

Website

http://www.AncientIllumination.net

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Genre

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Ebooks

Influences

R.A. Salvatore, Timothy Zahn, Terry Goodkind, Steven Erikson

Member Since

November 2015

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/rodvanblake

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Former Marine who loves science fiction and fantasy novels, published his debut novel Ancient Illumination in 2016. Followed that up with Ancient Illumination II :Kuongoza Mwanga; the leading light in 2018, and most recently released Ancient Illumination III: Godhood in February of 2020. Now working on his fantasy debut to be published later this year. There is also an illustrated Ancient Illumination volume 1 Remembrance and Revolt the Graphic novel available on Kindle and soon Comixology which features the beginning of the first novel, art by Jordan P. Jackson. The physical version of the graphic novel can only be purchased at conventions or by contact through the author web site.

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Average rating: 3.85 · 20 ratings · 10 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Ancient Illumination 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nyumbani Chronicles: the Return Home really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancient Illumination III: Godhood it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nyumbani Chronicles: the Return Home it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancient Illumination II: Kuongoza Mwanga: The Leading Light really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancient Illumination volume one: Remembrance and Revolt really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancient Illumination II: Kuongoza Mwanga The Leading Light 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancient Illumination Volume 2: A Quest for Truth and Redemption 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nyumbani Chronicles: Genesis of a Chaos Master by Rod Van Blake (Goodreads Author), Rod Van Blake (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nyumbani Chronicles Draconian Tribunal by Rod Van Blake (Goodreads Author), Jordan Jackson (Cover Art) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Formatting and the heroes journey

I guess this has more to with with style and a writers familiarity with what works best for them. Without meaning to when I wrote Ancient Illumination I did so not having one main character to focus on but rather different groups of people. The scenarios then go from one group to the others and follows them through events that will at some point connect them all.
Curious to see if other writers do Read more of this blog post »

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