Of Ink and Quille

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An Interview With Regan Keller of The Executive’s Decision: By Bernadette Marie Today I am sitting with Regan Keller who is featured in Bernadette Marie’s, The Executive’s Decision. Bernadette: Regan, you recently moved back to Nashville after having lived in Hawaii and California.   How does it feel to be back?” Regan: It is wonderful.   There is nothing like coming back to where your family is.   I have the most wonderful parents, very supportive.   Of course my brother Carlos is here with his children, and my younger brother Curtis as well. Bernadette: You have a sister too, right? Regan: Yes!   She is my older sister, which I like to point out.   Arianna, is an actress.   She just opened in her first Broadway production.   I couldn’t be more thrilled for her. Bernadette: You have a very eclectic family.   Tell us about that. Regan: The Kellers are certainly unique.   My parents were both born in ...

The White Oak, Clarendon’s oldest brothel, lured and destroyed men by the thousands. Fezariu was different. He had never been drawn by the White Oak’s vices but the brothel had still ruined him when he was just a boy. Salvation came in the form of the Merelax Mercenaries – Elenchera’s most prestigious hired hands. They gave Fezariu the chance to escape from his past. Immersed in the world of dangerous assignments in the colonies Fezariu longed to forget everything about his childhood but only in facing the past would he ever be free of it. RRP: £9.99/$14.99 (paperback), $4.99 (ebook)  The Elencheran Chronicles: http://elenchera.com The World According to Dave: http://blog.elenchera.com   Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/elenchera   http://www.facebook.com/fezariu Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/elenchera Book Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPgcNNLMBvY  

Chapter 20 When it came Fezariu leapt over the barrels and was flanked by Arshea and Vintaro with the other mercenaries holding a disciplined line on either side of him. They ran through the smoke rising from the flames and clouds of dust from the debris and soon found themselves in the pandemonium of the conflict raging throughout the square.    Across the expanse were hundreds of valkayan rebels engaged in an epic tussle with the colonists. Fezariu’s charge of Merelax Mercenaries smashed into the side of the closely packed valkayans who were already in disarray from the showers of arrows raining down on them from General Bayard’s archers. When the last of the bow strings came to rest the fate of Redemption was left to be decided by those fighting in the central square.    Fezariu’s line of mercenaries remained unbroken but many had fallen to the stubborn valkayan rebels whose determination was not swayed by the wilting of their numbers. Gradually the valkayans ...

Our special guest today is David Brown, author of Fezariu's Epiphany. David M. Brown was born in Barnsley in 1982 and first conceived the idea of Elenchera in college. His love of history and English led him to read these subjects at Huddersfield University. David is inspired by medieval history, Norse mythology and Japanese role-playing video games and anime films. He lives in Huddersfield with his wife Donna and their six rescue cats. Welcome to Of Ink And Quille Thanks for having me. As an author, what scares me the most... I call myself a fantasy writer and that’s what I’d always like to be. However, with the novels set in Elenchera I am trying to do something a little different with the genre. Does the sci-fi/fantasy genre need improving? I don’t think so, but what I want to do is make it more accessible to other readers. This is a venture I may not succeed in but I will certainly try my best and just see what happens. My debut novel, Fezariu’s Epiphany , enco...

1. What drew you to writing, and why did you pick the genre you write i I grew up in the pre-computer era. If you wanted factual information you found it in paper books and newspapers. The "Word" was powerful and depending on how you used the words, could influence peoples attitudes and behavior. I realized this before I was nine years old when I decided I wanted to pursue journalism. By the time I was in 8th grade, I published a weekly newsletter of local and upcoming events. Since we didn't have copy machines, I mimeographed my newsletter. I had a readership of over a hundred subscribers paying a dime to me each week.  Big bucks in that era. I continued to work pro-bono as an editor or journalist in high school, college, and in my professional organizations gaining experience in publishing. During my federal career I was only writing non-fiction, but my desire was to become a mystery novelist by the time I reached age sixty. I enjoy writing romance and Young Adu...