Daily Theme Posts on Facebook!

First topic message reminder :

Be sure to swing by my facebook page to see daily posts based on a daily theme!


Serenity Sunday - for the more spiritually inclined characters and those for whom the spirit realm is their chosen battlefield, your clerics, elementaldancers, mikos, monks, priests, priestesses, soul-forgers, and witches, Gods, daemons and ghosts.

Magick Monday - for the arcanists, the enchanters, necromancers, shadowmancers, sorcerers, soul-wielders, and wizards and magick itself in all its many grand, and sometimes terrifying forms.

Temp. Tuesday - dedicated to all those secondary characters who never really get a chance to shine...or find themselves killed off before their time. Gbk, Tinalia, Narendra, Ifan...

Wicked Wednesday - the villains must have their day, too. This day is for the connivers, the schemers, the betrayers, the ones with the ulterior motives and the general bad guys you really want to see get their comeuppance

Throwdown Thursday - a day set aside for the Defenders, the elementalblades, the fighters, fight-slaves, knights, shadow guards and shadow warriors. In general, the martial combatants and everything that goes with them from armor to weapons.

WTF Friday - as anyone who's been following the Tome Series might guess, this day is for everyone's favorite bandit, Scorpio. Of course, this will also extend to the other rogues out there, the thieves and spies. A day for tricks and traps!

Insane Saturday - a day for the crazy, insane, mad and generally mentally unstable. These are the ones you don't want to find yourself alone with on a dark night. Let's delve into psychosis in all its dark manifestations.

It's WTF Friday and I'm talking about the ninja device known as mizu gumo! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

Have a happy and safe Lughnasdha!

It's Insane Saturday and in the spirit of last night's Blue Moon, I'm talking about lunacy! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

It's Serenity Sunday and I'm talking about the jackal-headed God of Ancient Egypt - Anubis! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

Well, dear readers, another week has come and gone. It's Tidbit Tuesday again! I hope this means you'll swing by my facebook page to check out all the random oddness I've posted. Especially since, thanks so much to my crummy internet service provider (that fails to provide more often than not) I missed Magick Monday. However! (ISP providing...) Things should now be back to normal

I hope.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

On the update front, I've updated my windows to 10 (and regretting it to this very moment). But this cannot be helped. As I reacclimate myself to a whole new world of apps for this and apps for that, I find myself dealing with some rather difficult chapters at the moment. Not writer's block so much as 'How the heck am I going to pull this off?' syndrome. Nothing new, but still a pain in the ass.

As a result my pages written quota for the past week is somewhat lower than I should like it to be. I only managed to get 7 pages written. On the bright side, I got one chapter finished and have a fairly solid start on the next. Break out the brass! In the next few pages the story arcs are in full swing!

It's Wicked Wednesday and I'm talking about that smoky yokai, the enenra! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

It's Throwdown Thursday and I'm talking about the ultra-cool Japanese war fan! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

It's WTF Friday and I'm tlaking about the vicious neko-te! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

It's Insane Saturday and I'm talking about the Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

It's Serenity Sunday and I'm talking about the shamanic priestesses of the Shinto religion, the miko! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

It's Magick Monday and I'm talking about Faustian contracts, otherwise known as deals with the Devil! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

It's Tidbit Tuesday and as usual, madcap madness is the order of the day on my facebook page. Be sure to swing by and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

In other news, as I have officially crossed the 200 page mark in my first draft of "Rahasya" I figured I'd share page 200 with you, dear readers! So! Kick back, read, and enjoy! <3



Zorastres woke on the warm sand of a beach and for a moment he was al-most lulled back to sleep by the soft breeze and the gentle crash of the surf on the shore. Then the Leviathan came back to him, the screams of the Myrmido-nes as the trireme they’d been traveling on upended into the swirling mael-strom of Oceanus and Hekate’s echoing words promising it was not yet his time to die.

And that she could not save those destined to no longer live.

Jolted back to full awareness, his xiphos still tightly gripped in one hand, Zorastres scrambled to his feet to find himself standing on the Isle of Hesperia drenched in the golden light of the setting sun. Out across the surrounding waters he could see through the Golden Veil Between Worlds. Somewhat thinner than it should have been even on an Equinox, he clearly saw the raging storm and fearsome Oceanus but the waves that lapped against the shore were no more tempest-churned than if they were from a small inland lake.

Behind him, stretching in every direction lay a magnificent garden filled with thousands of trees bearing perfect fruit and in between to either side was a seemingly endless stretch of beach. Empty, lonely beach.

“No…I can’t be the only one.”

Slamming his sword back into its sheath, he started to the left but seeing what awaited him in the not-so-distant distance, he turned the other way and started running along the shore. Determined not to look back, he shouted his companions’ names. His boots sank into the wet sand with every pounding step, dragging him back, slowing him down, but he refused to stop.

Zorastres didn’t know how long he ran. The sun never seemed to move from where it sat on the horizon, making him wonder if it was the same one that Helios’ chariot pulled across the sky on the other side of the Golden Veil or something else. A vision or illusion cast by Hera or the Hesperides who tended her garden. It wasn’t until he was forced to stop for the fifth time, bent over with his hands on his knees, gasping for breath, his legs straining and tired that he noticed his shadow was turning but growing no longer on the sand. It was then that the full impact of where he was occurred to him. The Isle of Hesperia was the Isle of Twilight.

Turning to the horizon, he raised a hand to shield his eyes as he looked to the setting sun or more accurately, the sun that was setting in the Material Realm. Here on Hesperia, it merely followed the horizon as it passed from the Gate of Dawn to the Gate of Dusk where it would descend to pass through the Underworld before emerging from the Gate of Dawn once again.

Zorastres resumed his run with an added urgency to find someone, anyone. Hesperia wasn’t a place he wanted to spend the night and certainly not alone. He couldn’t imagine anyone else wanting that either.

As he ran, yelling the name of every man and woman who’d been on the trireme with him, he noticed a motionless lump in the distance. Forcing himself to run faster, he caught the gleam of a bladed bracer and his heart leaped into his throat. It was one of the EarthFolk. Stumbling through the shifting sand, the nearer he got he could see a mess of light brown hair and leather armor stained red.

“Lassa!” Skidding to his knees, he rolled her over. Damp sand stuck to her skin, rubbing it raw in patches like glass. “Lassa, open your eyes!”

With a shaking hand, he gently touched her face, patting her cheek. She was icy cold and her lips had a bluish tint. She wasn’t breathing. When it came to water, Lassa had always been the weakest. She hated being wet, could barely swim, was terrified of deep water, and got seasick. It didn’t seem right that she should die at Oceanus’ hands.

It's Wicked Wednesday and I'm talking about the world-famous cephalopod, the Kraken! Swing by my facebook page to check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

It's Throwdown Thursday and I'm talking about the ancient combat art known as tessenjutsu - the iron fan technique! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

It's WTF Friday and I'm talking about crickets! Yes, crickets! The correlation to assassins/ninjas/rogues and the like? Guess you'll have to swing by my facebook page and find out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

It's Insane Saturday and I'm talking about the horrific 'treatment' of mental illness known as trepanning! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

It's Serenity Sunday and I'm talking about that otherworldly hound of Scottish tradition, the Cu Sith! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

It's Magick Monday and I'm talking about Kitchen Witchery! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

Yep, it's Tidbit Tuesday again and randomness prevails on my facebook page. Be sure to swing by and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

In other news, your author is hard at work on the first draft of "Rahasya". I'm feeling rather pleased with myself as I wrote 10 pages over the last few days. Not an easy feat given that a secondary character I always planned on bringing in but put off fleshing out until "I get to him" arrived. Yep, you guessed it, I actually had to sit down and tackle his character sheet beyond "blonde-hair, blue-eyed Elf". That sort of layout doesn't get you far with a character in a book, let me tell you.

So who is this guy? Without giving too much away, I can tell you he presently passes himself off as a human in Rahasya where he goes by the human name of 'Luca' and is a self-proclaimed priest of the Horned God of the Wild Wood. He speaks a secret language, is quite amicable with Vlkodlaks in general, has an overall peaceable nature, and is possessed of incredibly strong, if somewhat wild and Nature-based, spiritual power.

Honestly, if he survives this book much less the Tome Series, I'd love to write him in a stand-alone novel of his own. He's already a lot of fun to write.

It's Wicked Wednesday and I'm talking about the tragic child-eating daemon, Lamia! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

It's Throwdown Thursday and I'm talking about the sword of the ancient Roman foot soldier, the gladius! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

It's WTF Friday and I decided to go with something a little less serious this time around. On this day of assassins, rogues, ninjas, and pirates, I decided to talk about my favorite fictional band of pirates, One Piece's Straw Hats! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

It's Insane Saturday and I'm talking about the controversial insulin shock therapy! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

It's Serenity Sunday and I'm talking about the Queen of the Greek Gods, Hera! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl

It's Magick Monday and I'm talking about that all important tool in spell-casting, the magick circle! Swing by my facebook page and check it out!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Culpepper/163553843710608?ref=hl