I’m a former PhD Chemist turned IT Manager whose inchoate quest for authenticity has been something of a meandering across the physical sciences and information technology in various technical and managerial careers.

Since my scholastic curiosity spans science and theology, I aspire to write from a position where like the tension between the heart and mind, the interplay between the two, between rationalism and spirituality, informs a unified whole.

Now in post-corporate life, I love fingering ancient classics and anything on cosmology, paleontology, or lost civilizations  I profess, however, a talent for nothing in particular, except a fabulist’s fascination with ante-diluvian myth, and all things primordial. And at heart I’m still that nerdy kid who long devoured a book a week, and all of them science fiction.

Without question, my most satisfying endeavor has been my debut novel. After sixteen years of moldering in the cabinet, I’m glad it’s finally out.

If I dared to dream, it would be for a dinosaur egg and a cache of Sumerian “money” on my desk to keep things in perspective. We are all but dust in the end, so let’s all play nicely, shall we?

Every fantasy world has its magical system that attempts to render the impossible plausible. I’m inspired by the primordial elements of the Mosaic book of Genesis and the ancient Jewish apocryphal work, the Book of Enoch. They surely make an ‘ideas goldmine.’

Call it what it you like, but I prefer to label my stuff Enochian —   it’s thoughtul grimdark meets orthodox mythos in a supernatural fantasy setting exploring Biblical concepts. Sometimes, there’s no hero and no happy ending. It’s the milieu and the protagonist’s struggle  against it that form the story core.

In ENOK, I wonder: Who were the serpents of Eden? What became of them? And what about those para-human Nephilim, the hybrid offspring of humans and those other-worldly ‘Sons of God’? Now add-in a primordial earth, and lifespans measured in hundred of years, what would antediluvian life have been like? 

Of course, many say these very chronicles (Genesis & the Book of Enoch) are pure fantasy; however, I remain unconvinced. Since flood myths and serpent deities are virtually universal tropes, I can’t help but wonder whether the reality behind ancient Hebrew mythos wouldn’t have astounded even the best of fabulists.

If my debit novel ENOK  doesn’t completely ‘tank,’ the prequels and sequels taking shape on my desk will continue to explore the Enochian antediluvian milieu in a series that I might just call Tales of the Woebegin.