My newest poetry project. A quick read of around 40 poems. I want to go back to shorter projects, with an option for longer bodies of work. This project is on most ebook platforms for 99cent.
Wanting To Be Known For Something (In The Fiction World)
Opening statement…opening statement…ummm…I don’t have one, so I’ll just get right to it. I’m closing in 100 published books (most of them poetry). The problem is, when it comes down to the fiction side of things, I have no clear identity. For marketing purposes that can be a big problem.
Every writer is known for something. Shakespeare is known for Romeo and Juliet first, and then his Sonnets. R.L.Stine has the Goosebump series. J,K.Rowling has Harry Potter. And as for me…I now have my vampiric supernatural series – How Long Is Forever.
How (Truly) Long Is Forever
I’ve spent the longest time out of any book series I have ever written, on this series. I’m five books in, with the first four books being novellas, and the fifth book on the verge of being a light novel. The fifth book is actually wrapping up the first arc, and I’m so excited for this. To be honest, I already have the next four arcs lined up, leaving me to just set time aside to write them.
Versatility Amongst The Supernatural
Out of all my fiction books, I consider this one the most versatile one. At face value, it can sort of appear to be another vampiric action romance. Maybe even a story of strong revenge. But it’s more than that. I capitalize on character development. The bonds between characters is what pushes this series. Also…this series has WAY MORE IN IT, than just vampires.
More Claws And Fangs
I don’t want to give too much away, but this series has vampires, werewolves/lycans, witches, demons, magic battles and magic hunters, and more creatures down the line. To give an example of what the arcs are looking like, there is an upcoming arc that centers around the demon Lilith. Another arc that centers around an entire society of hunters, who want to put an end to a magical school that has found a way for supernatural beings and humans to coexist.
Bonding With Another
There is a strong romance system in this series as well. Some romances are deeply hinted at, while others are right there in the open. Mostly all my characters share some sort of bond with another, this being done purposely to flesh them out. To give them skin. To make them feel more alive and believable.
Each character has a purpose – a goal in which they are trying to achieve. Some want revenge, others just want to save someone who is still alive. Some even want to save others from themselves. Then there are other characters who just want to survive in the judgmental world they live in. The bonds between characters is what will push the series.
Sample Chapter
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Principal Santiago
The moon’s light, breaking through my tall office window, positioned behind my desk, was the only company I had at this time. Piles of paperwork stood in the corners of my desk, being an actual improvement compared to what my desk looked like earlier in the day.
The campus grounds seemed quiet now, as only the night classes were available. The vampires on campus were much more organized and trustworthy than the humans, leaving very little surveillance needed over them. Lyserg, the vampire dorm’s leader, made sure to keep all the vampires in line. They operated completely differently than the human dorms, that being the human dorms not having a leader besides me, their principal. This gave me time to think. Something I rarely was able to do, as I maintained a busy schedule most of my days.
My son. I thought back on the last real conversation I had with Aiden, before our departure.
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Aiden was much younger than what he was now. About ten years younger, making him sixteen at the time. Though his early teen spirit still lingered over him at this time, as he confronted me in the rain, on the sidewalk of an empty street. It was nearing midnight, with me finally leaving my office and returning home. Aiden, who hadn’t said anything to me for several weeks, had finally caught me outside of work.
He looked at me with a mixture of anger and concern in his eyes, his blonde hair resting on his head from the rain’s constant pressure above. He asked me with demand in his tone, why…
Why would I side with the vampires, after what they did to his mother, my ex-wife. I looked at him with a straight face, though my small streaks of tears hid between the rain that was already running down my face.
I wanted to tell him to come home. That the two of us would continue to find a way, past his mother’s death. Together. The same way we were, before I built the academy. Elissa had been tarnished for two years at this point, though I knew she would be proud of my accomplishments. Bringing vampires and humans together was something we both wanted for years, during our early days in the hunters’ society together. Aiden didn’t know this. I never bothered to tell him either. I was waiting…for the right time.
I got lost in my own mind, triggering Aiden to yell at me. He screamed ANSWER ME! I did just that, realizing that he was at the brink of destruction. Misguided. I told Aiden that through my journey as a hunter, I learned that not every vampire was a murderer, and that most vampires wanted to control their hunger. I told him that just like his mother, Elissa, would have preferred to help others.
Aiden snapped at me, telling me that Elissa wouldn’t have helped a vampire, knowing that she hunted vampires. However, he only knew the surface of his mother’s background. She was born into the hunter’s world, with her not knowing much but to slaughter vampires in the beginning. She was the one who showed me this. Elissa showed me that vampires were humane as well.
I told Aiden that by bringing vampires and humans together, that I could further prevent what had happened to our family. To his mother. This only further enraged Aiden, as he smacked my hand away that I had reached out to him, telling him to come home in this process.
Aiden told me that he was never returning home with me, and that he would have a “real” hunter train him, and that he would kill every vampire himself. He left right after this outburst, with me watching him walk away in the rain.
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My one and only son…felt as if I betrayed him and his mother, for this legacy. But I hadn’t. And though I didn’t get to finish raising him, looking out my office window, down at the night dorm switching classes, reminded me…that I was raising tons of other young adults.
I turned away from the window, looking into the darkness along the right side of the room. And I spoke. I spoke Elissa’s name, knowing that she wasn’t physically there. However, this often helped me, whenever my mind faced a roadblock.
I asked Elissa in spirit, what I should do. What could I do…with our son Aiden?
Zero Barriers
Each and every one of these books will be a dollar. No matter how long the book is. I want as wide of a reach as possible. I don’t want any barriers of entry. I don’t mind playing the numbers game, as I have so much to write about. So many locked away ideas.
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They tell us, and they tell us…but as a writer, we focus on that aspect of the career. The writing aspect. If all we had to do is write…if success was only bargained by this, I have over 86 books published, trust me, I would be beyond successful. But I have to learn to properly merge being a blogger as well. I have to remind myself that I…am more than just an author.
How She Drifts (Poetry)
Poem # 1
How far the journey, before I cry out for you
This weight that doesn’t release in this atmosphere
I carry it for you
I crave to be remade by you
~ Sakari
Poem # 2
I linger as a spirit does
My voice goes weak down your halls
Reality sings to me, in its loudest voice
Why can’t I have you, in the distance
~ Sakari
Poem # 3
Through will we shall bond
She’s been observed by so many before
I break and twist inside rotating matter
I reform within her presence
~ Sakari
Poem # 4
There are symbols that I see, throughout the day
A knife between realms, allow me to carve things out
She’s placed herself away, from wondering crowds
All I get, is her spirit’s dust
~ Sakari
Poem # 5
Strands of mist repaints her dark forest
This darkness she has told me, she has never wished
I want to wash away all of it for her
I want to take away, her black beach
~ Sakari
Poem # 6
And so she falls into a pit
Her back goes in first
Her eyes close for sleep
Her heart stays awake
~ Sakari
The First Home For My Writing
WordPress was the first place for me to post my writing. The first place to make me believe that my art had somewhere to go amongst the digital world. I was able to use this platform to post my content and build a strong base of followers. Of strong readers. Of supporters. And even though I hadn’t been on here in some time, I have still grown in followers. This feeling is unexplainable.
Returning To Where It Started
I’ve learned so much since I first started six years back. My writing is better. And I have found my voice. I can’t wait to be more consistent on here again. With better posts. More eyes. And a different mindset. I want to continue to build my writer’s foundation, and I want it to be on WordPress. Coming back to this platform with a sharper sense of everything is only going to further my career. I’m a blogger. An author. An MMA fighter in training now. I’m starting a band soon. I can’t wait to share these arts with all of you. I simply…can’t wait.
One Of Many Poetry Books From Me…
Put your heart at risk I know, I know You’re not new to this I know, I know I’m asking for a lot I know, I know You’re not new to this
Omar watches as his owner gets dressed. A spirit mage who has pulled him from the afterlife to ally her in battle.
Omar is a man in his late twenties, while Cel is a woman with all black long hair, who dresses in one color always – the color black. She is nearing her mid-twenties.
OMAR: Do you have to leave with him again – you’ve already been out three times this week, and its only Thursday.
Cel continues to fix do her makeup. Omar leans against the wall with his arms crossed, realizing he is being ignored.
OMAR: We should be training, not indulging in useless matters. What if we were attacked by the enemy?
CEL: I’m not about to do this with you tonight, Omar.
OMAR: Do what?
CEL: This.
Cel stops with her makeup for a bit.
CEL: You do this every time I’m about to meet up with him.
Cel continues her makeup in her bedroom mirror.
OMAR: It just seems so pointless. What is he actually doing for you?
CEL: Look, Omar.
Cel turns around to face her summon – her spirit ally.
CEL: You can’t…sigh. I’ve been thinking, and…I wanna give up mage craft.
Omar leans off the wall. His face is now in utter shock.
OMAR: What? Why? We’ve been training hard for this.
CEL: That’s the thing, I don’t want to be any of this. I never asked for this. I want a normal life. I don’t want to battle and continue to risk lives anymore.
OMAR: But we haven’t harmed anyone. We’ve actually saved many with our…
Cel puts her finger up, indicating for Omar to wait. To pause. And pause he does.
CEL: That’s not all. I’ve also been considering…terminating our contract.
OMAR: The contract that keeps me in this world? The contract that has me bound to you?
Cel doesn’t reply.
OMAR: All because you think I’m jealous.
Omar’s tone drops.
OMAR: He wins then.
CEL: Goodbye Omar.
Omar stands in place as he watches Cel grab her black purse and head out the door. He makes his way to her bed as the door closes behind Cel.
Omar flops in place, his head now dropped to the floor. He looks down at both his hands.
OMAR: All because I’m jealous.
Omar dematerializes into the air, becoming thin strands of mist before no longer baring a physical form. Cel enters back into the room just as his particles scatter into the air.
CEL: Omar, wait.
Cel rushes over to the bed where Omar once was. She tries to catch his disappearing body but fails to.
CEL: Omar?
She calls out to no response. Cel then turns around and sits on the bed herself.
CEL: I’m sorry.
She manages to say in a saddened tone.
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Author’s Note: This article will be rushed, so please, my apologies in advance 🙂 i’m putting this article together on a Greyhound, as i’m traveling across the map from Arizona to Michigan. I’m planning to be in Michigan long enough for my career to float, and then i’m moving to Malaysia, as there is a certain visa I need to acquire to do this 🙂 i’m so excited for the future ahead!!! 🙂
Now, to get back on track, I literally wrote this fiction story while I was passing through Texas (still am passing through Texas at this moment, and on my way to Nashville next, according to my bus driver). Since certain platforms don’t allow me to post too much of any book I am publishing with their service (looking at you Amazon – our love/hate relationship), I will be delivering flash fiction to you 🙂 they will be like lore fiction, giving you little side stories using the characters from certain universes of certain series.
These stories will be an add-on every week to these articles. The purpose of these stories is to dive further into the universe of each series, as I am going back to working on multiple series at once. This is because i’m thinking more like a publisher from now on, than an author. I’m treating my writing career more like a monopoly from now on. I’m going back to serialization, as I constantly see that my shorter works are being sought after. It’s so darn frustrating writing a 200 page book, just for it to be shelved because a more known author has just dropped their own book.
[Over 200 pages of poetry – a much larger collection than usual. Available for 1.99]
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Fiction…
One of the few remaining witches in their world, Brandon, a 30-year-old man, requires the aid of Ulysee, a 23-year-old woman. After having tracked her down, due to her being the only one that can break a curse turned disease that is killing off witches, Brandon must first protect her from an opposing witch that wants her dead.
I’ve been away for some time now, trying my art in different paths of publishing. I’m back with a new outlook on everything writing now. The section of literature I have presented was not the end- there is more. Below is the rest of this article, including more poetry and more fiction. I want to link these worlds, giving readers more options when available.
We’re hiding high But destiny interrupts We found love, ever so low So why can’t we escape
~ Sakari
In the purest of ways, I keep you So wrapped within the boundaries of me My fading grace to support, for however long Until myself, I fade
~ Sakari
Call it no time at all Already I suffocate From the weight of this crush I’ve been having on you And even if You felt the slightest amount of change Within yourself You aren’t supposed to tell me
~ Sakari
I’m not just a poet, i’m also an author. Writing fiction, I have an entire vampiric series published. In the form of novellas, i’m four books in (with the 6th book in the works). Now is the best time to catch up, as everything is being cranked up in the series, starting the beginning of the end of the first saga. If you’re a fan of Vampires, Lycans, Werewolves, and magic, click one of the links below to get the first 2 volumes free, on apple books or Barnes and noble.
Plot: Nineteen-year-old Dawn loses his mother on an unexpected night. With no proof of her death, only a missing body, Dawn is determined to find his mother. However, Dawn is placed into a closed off school that houses the one thing that could have possibly taken his mother from him…Vampires. With this academy forcing vampires and humans to live on the same grounds together, Dawn follows a possible lead that could bring him closer to his mother’s kidnapper.
Autotune couldn’t change your voice Those streaming numbers will rise So natural you are Relax, you never have to try Lofi in your tone You relax your audience Winter vibes – so chill I’m not ready to go
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When your computer shuts off That’s goodbye Back to the moon I go This happens every time On your side I know you’re tired But on my side I’m waiting for updates
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I’ll leave in and out of your world Please don’t change the locks All the way through I want you as a personal friend To the moon we go I’ll bring you back In time for your next stream Just tell me ahead of time
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When your computer shuts off That’s goodbye Back to the moon I go This happens every time On your side I know you’re tired But on my side I’m waiting for updates
~ Sakari
I’m not just a poet, i’m also an author. Writing fiction, I have an entire vampiric series published. In the form of novellas, i’m four books in (with the 6th book in the works). Now is the best time to catch up, as everything is being cranked up in the series, starting the beginning of the end of the first saga. If you’re a fan of Vampires, Lycans, Werewolves, and magic, click one of the links below to get the first 2 volumes free, on apple books or Barnes and noble.
Plot: Nineteen-year-old Dawn loses his mother on an unexpected night. With no proof of her death, only a missing body, Dawn is determined to find his mother. However, Dawn is placed into a closed off school that houses the one thing that could have possibly taken his mother from him…Vampires. With this academy forcing vampires and humans to live on the same grounds together, Dawn follows a possible lead that could bring him closer to his mother’s kidnapper.
