I wasn't always a full time #author with several successful books in print. (1/11)
Truth be told, I failed 100x more than I succeeded.
But some of the projects I worked on have paved the way to the artist and writer I am today.
Here's a quick timeline of some of my projects:
1) VIVIAN AMBERVILLE early concept (2/11)
- my epic dark fantasy series (the books that started my career as a professional writer) was imagined as early as 2001.
- it included maps, character charts & (cringy) character sketches
- I even drew a pretty terrible comic book series.😄
2) UNFINISHED VIDEOGAMES (3/11)
- in my teen years, I coded a lot of crappy videogames in C++ (& some in a language called Pascal) as part of my high school curriculum.
- one was an early prototype of a "point & click" LucasArts-style game about a man who could push his physical pain into others.
3) YET-UNPUBLISHED STORIES (4/11)
- in university I was the editor-in-chief of a French literary magazine & a columnist for a small military magazine
- I wrote a lot of short-stories I never published. You can see some in this post: bit.ly/4ru7Qlq
- one involved a cactus pants-wearing warrior 🌵⚔️🤭
4) REPROBATES (5/11)
- my first ever story, initially published in a literary magazine with a print-run of 100K copies
- this Limbo story earned me my 1st royalty check (a staggering 200€!)🤭
- it was re-published in 2015 (with some changes) by my current publisher, where it totally bombed.💣
5) THE WEAVER OF ODDS (6/11)
- my debut novel, 1st in the Vivian Amberville dark fantasy book series.
- it follows a girl called Vivian whose thoughts can control odds & twist the very fabric of reality.
- this story ended up being a huge success & kick-started my professional writing career.💙📚
6) GOD IS A ROBOT (7/11)
- a humorous sci-fi novel with an all robot cast set in a world where humans are long extinct.🤖
- this story has a dark history behind it due to some bad business agreements.🎥
- it is currently in the publisher's pipeline and will arrive in your hands soon enough.
7) JUMP INTO THE ABYSS! (8/11)
- the unnerving horror short-story of a man who gets buried alive over the festering remains of his dead wife.
- inspired by Dante's Inferno, it very nearly reads like a poem.
- financially, it bombed, but it taught me how to perfect the "rhyming prose" technique.💙📚
8) THE UNDERWORLD RHAPSODY (9/11)
- a psychedelic novella & one of my most "explicitly Jungian" stories I wrote.
- it deals with drug-induced "states of altered consciousness" & existentialism.
- this story immortalized me as an "oddball writer" but it's still exceptionally close to my heart.💙📚
9) 5 STARS (10/11)
- this book was my love letter to the videogame art form
- every plot device emulates the logic & mechanics of videogames (collision boxes, shrinking arena, AI overlord, giant mech spider, plasma katanas, mindf**k ending)
- written in a new genre called "neon science-fiction"💙📚
10) THE BOOK OF CHAOS (11/11)
- my most successful & most complex book to date.
- has 16 subplots, 9 fully-fledged fictional languages, 200+ characters, 20+ magic systems & 8 time loops (one a quintuple timeloop, the other a trifecta)
- if Harry Potter was written by H.P Lovecraft & Sanderson.💙📚
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