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.
BUBBA BLITZKRIEG
One of my first characters, resurrected as a parody of himself and his genre.
ANCIENT CRAP
Links to excerpts from my first couple of novels (for which I failed the 9th grade).
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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
- E.L. Doctorow
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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