3,000 MILES
Eight years on the road leaves pieces of your soul in every state.
M.E. CALDWELL
An unfinished novel that has attracted a handful of fans through the years.
THE ASRIA GODDESS - (6 Book Series)
The chronicles of the goddess Asria Bor. A prequel and a sequel to Arumaea.
ARUMAEA - (6 Book Series)
This novel has been in development since I was 15 years old. I'm still working on it.
CREWE
My vampire can kick your vampire's ass. He had Lestat for breakfast.
BUBBA BLITZKRIEG
One of my first characters, resurrected as a parody of himself and his genre.
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“There are three rules to writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
- William Somerset Maugham
I love words. I always have. Language. It amazes me how we can communicate so much with just a few words, and can
dramatically change the meaning of what we say by re-arranging those very same words.
I think I always wanted to be a writer. Among other things, of course. I still have blank forms that I made my friends
fill our in the 8th grade, so that I could use their names in a book I was writing.
That book was never finished. Somewhere near 2/3 of the way through, I realized it was horrible. So I started another.
It was horrible, too.
But I always enjoyed writing. I still do. Now, though, I'm keenly aware that I'm ill-suited to writing for a profit. I'm
more poet than writer. I don't fit into the publishing industry's nearly defined categories.
I think it all comes back to loving words. Playing with words. Rhyme. Texture. We have all suffered at the hands of the
mass-market paperback. Something of the beauty of the written language is lost in the pursuit of profitability.
Still, you can grow old and fat and still make a living as a writer. So as I age, I realize that it's possibly the
only refuge left to me. Writing is the refuge of old men. And I grow older every day.
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