“Band together behind the fire in the mouth of the cave, fellow tribesmen!”
― Heretics of Dune
― Heretics of Dune
“Anne Leigh Parrish, fiction editor for Eclectica magazine, says, “A story is not a nice description of how things are. It’s not a sensibility, or a mood. While those elements surely contribute to a story, a story itself is a narrative where there must be a change in the reader’s understanding of the events, or in the protagonist’s understanding. You leave a story seeing something you didn’t see at the outset, something that makes sense of what’s come before.”
― How to Write Winning Short Stories: A practical guide to writing stories that win contests and get selected for publication
― How to Write Winning Short Stories: A practical guide to writing stories that win contests and get selected for publication
“The wise man molds himself—the fool lives only to die.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“They sped along the conduits reserved for the subtle messages of subatomic particles, space-time’s hidden circuitry.”
― The Eon Series: Legacy, Eon, and Eternity
― The Eon Series: Legacy, Eon, and Eternity
“challenge and difficulty mattered less to the great majority than accomplishment and gain,”
― The Eon Series: Legacy, Eon, and Eternity
― The Eon Series: Legacy, Eon, and Eternity
Jose D Castillo’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jose D Castillo’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Jose D Castillo
Lists liked by Jose D Castillo





















