Since you clicked the button, you’ve probably deduced that I’m the author of The Fables of Ciktar.

And since you clicked it, I hope that means you want to know a little about me and what inspired my brain to come up with the world of Ciktar

I’d love to tell you that Ciktar came from the mind of a scholarly fellow like many of the authors I’ve loved and admired throughout the course of my life, but that would be giving myself far too much credit.

Ciktar was originally created in the head of an awkward ten-year-old who didn’t really fit in with the other kids; that’s autobiography speak for “I was the odd kid in class”.
I spent more time drawing or playing with medieval Lego sets than being social, and way back then Ciktar became the world I escaped to. I never had any set characters when I escaped into my little world of make-believe, it was just whatever I made up on the spot; sometimes it was war, sometimes it was adventures, sometimes it was just characters having difficult conversations.

When I was a teenager, I was doing better socially, but I was still definitely a bit on the “weird” side, just by then I’d learned to embrace it more. My visits to Ciktar became less stick figures and Lego playsets and more drawings and daydreams. In my mid-teens, I was a pretty angry kid and circumstances out of my control gave me a need for a real escape from reality. So when I was fifteen years old, I wrote three books in the world of Ciktar. This time, however, there were established characters with names, personalities, skill sets and values.
The problem? The story was written by a young teen in the nineties, so holy shit was it pretentious and unnecessarily broody.

I always kept that 3.5” floppy disk with those stories. Every computer I owned had those cringy stories backed up, because I always told myself I’d go back and rewrite the adventures of Aurora, Ashes and the others who called Ciktar their home.
I never did. I always had an excuse, said I was too busy or didn’’t have time.

In 2024 I had a health issue that shook me awake and told me that “later” isn’t guaranteed. I sat down at the computer every day, every night, and every available piece of time creating the story that’s been living in my head for almost three decades.
I will always be eternally grateful to my wife, Maggie, for understanding my need to dedicate so much time.

Eighteen months later, the rough manuscripts for all eight books of the first Fable of Ciktar, The Aurora Menauld Saga, are complete and now in the editing phase.

I currently do not have an agent or publisher at this time; if and when that changes, I will update accordingly.

I’ll also get around to getting a real headshot done.

Thank you for spending your time ready a bit about me. I hope this is only the beginning of our adventures together.