ValentineDavis21

As with my previous novel, which I have on here as well, I always set up my characters first and Rebecca is very crucial. She has a rare outside perspective of Skold that people, including himself, doesn't know exist. He saved her life. Does that mean that he does, indeed have morals? Is he as cold and heartless as he seems?

You hit the nail on the head. That is a huge question that comes into his play, both with his past and future actions. What is Skold's motivations? What side is he on?

Yes, I must admit that I did not like Skold for that much either. Skold is a very complicated character, he is most certainly not a nice guy. And that's how I wanted him to be. I wanted to create a character that at first starts out as someone that everyone hates, is just a really bad guy, but then over a time, changes. The change is slow, gradual, but it makes for a more compelling character arc. Thank you for the review.

Vanessa Holland did not look like a dangerous woman, not at first glance. She looked like a business woman, dressed in a fine business suit, her blonde hair glistening, her nails manicured and perfect. She was in her early fifties but looked to be in late thirties. She was a defense attorney, the kind of person that one might expect to have integrity, morale. But Skold knew that she had none of these qualities. She was a woman of greed who only wanted power and money. She did not get these thi

Rebecca Hall was so excited that she could barely breathe. Even though it was cold and misty with the promise of freezing, ice-laced rain, it might as well be winter-that was how happy she felt. Once she got done closing business with this client she would have her debt paid off. Or at least half of it, she thought happily. But having half of it paid off is better than not having any of it paid off at all. The bell jangled as she turned and stepped into Bellman’s Coffee Shop. She loved t

Skold peeked through the blinds. The orc was sitting handcuffed to the chair. His filthy, greasy black hair hung before his great hooked nose, where nasty, puss-filled boils had formed, the fat, white head so old that they had a yellowish tint to them. His skin was the color of dark mold and his eyes were the color of blood. The orc caught Skold watching him and grinned, showing his rotting, sharp, triangular teeth. He raised his fist and gave him the finger. He turned towards Reynolds. “I t

The inside of the subway tunnel didn’t look all of that different from a battlefield. Feeling a long sense of deja vu Skold led the team deeper into the subway tunnel, passing through the ticket booth. Huge chunks of rubble had been ripped from the wall and covered the ground, some crushed down into a fine, white, powdery substance. The tunnel reeked of sulfur. He could detect faint traces of troll dung, an acrid almost acidic smell very much like sulfur; and underneath the smell of troll dung w

From where he stood on top of the mountain he could see the vast harsh icy landscape in every direction. In the distance was the ruins of a desecrated village: straw-roofed huts were engulfed by vicious blazes that sent spirals of smoke towards the sky, carrying with it the scent of blood, burning flesh and death. Corpses were strewn everywhere like forgotten dolls. Many had been slayed by his own sword, human and fae alike. He had stood at the top of this mountain many times in the past and

Since the dawn of time the fae and human race have lived along side each other. Once a warrior, Skold, an elf, is now a notorious bounty hunter in the twenty-first century who is hired to investigate a mysterious chain of events that could throw the world into chaos while also trying to regain his lost memories.

My name is Valentine Davis. Even though I have been a member of Gay Authors since October I consider myself to be a rookie. I always believed that writing was the hardest part of being an author but actually writing a book isn't really that hard, the editing process is. It's also the most painful. You spend so long working on your baby and helping it grow and develop into this wonderful masterpiece and then people critique it and you go from to . Even though I'm from Indiana (I'm currently living in Columbus, Indiana and I fucking hate it ) I've always felt that California was my real home. My mom and I moved in with my great uncles Brian and Butch (my real name is Brian and I am named after my uncle Brian) San Diego when I was three. My mom went to a community college there. When I was six we moved to Berkeley where she was a student at UC Berkeley. Scientist say that 3-6 is the age range where we develop the most-I could be wrong but if so I don't want to know because I'm a narcissist and don't like to be told I'm wrong-and I spent those years in California. It plays a huge part into who I am. It was in California at the age of six, that I started to learn how to write. I started writing about Scooby Doo and Dragon Ball Z (I had a crush on Gohan and Piccolo and which there was more fan fiction on them as a couple) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. My mom would edit my stories for me and I would take them to school so happy. And of course it hurt my feelings that no one else gave a shit. My mom and I moved back to the mid west when I was nine and my life has been a downward spiral since. One of my big dreams is to move back to California, particularly the Bay Area. When I was in the fourth grade I started reading Stephen King and Anne Rice. I once got into an argument with my fifth grade home room teacher for reading Queen of the Damned. She said it had a bad cuss word in the title. I was trying to explain to her that the word Damned in the title wasn't the same thing has cursing at someone when they make you made or taking the Lord's name in vain. I figured surely that she would understand being an English teacher and all, but she wasn't having it. So I'm also a book worm, so sue me. I recently just published my novel Immortui: Volume 1 through Createspace, an online company through Amazon. For all of you authors on here it is a great company to publish your novel through. You can publish everything for free and do it yourself, even convert it to eBook format for free or you can pay for professional services. I did everything myself including the editing and cover so as you can imagine it's a little on the rough side. I'm hoping some day once I get some money I can make a revised edition. Have a good evening y'all Oh and one more thing, you can also find me on Goodreads and Facebook.

I loved "The Hours" one of my favorite movies. Streep, Kidman, and Moore are like my three favorite actresses and so when you put those three together you are bound to get perfection. I've only read City of Bones and I thought the world was very interesting.

For the last four or five years I have tried finding LGBT literature and cinema that is thought-provoking, awe-inspiring that isn't wrapped up in a rainbow-colored cliche. In my search I found a few things: Queer as Folk (the US version), Lost Girl, Hedwig and the Angry Inch; In the Company of Shadows series by Santino Hassell, the Fallocaust series by Quil Carter and Luck In the Shadows series. But other than that I haven't found anything that is really satisfying. People always tell me that times are getting better with LGBT equality. I'm only twenty-one so I don't have the experience to be able to make a comparison. Same sex marriage has been legalized nation wide (hoorah, hoorah!) and the football Sam Michaels came out of the closet and that's all fine and dandy. But I'm focusing on literature and TV. Yes, a lot of TV shows are featuring more gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender characters but it always seems to me that their side characters (with a few exceptions of course.) We have all of the super TV shows coming out like Jessica Jones and Luke Cage and Daredevil. Hey I love superheroes. Some of them are really hot like Batman (a man of few words, the strong and silent type) and the Hulk (yes I have a fetish for green men with overdeveloped muscles) but when are we going to get a gay superhero that takes center stage, that kicks ass and takes name instead of just being the side kick? It goes for the same thing with all of these book series that have come out like the Mortal Instruments and Harry Potter. The only way you knew Dumbledore was gay was because J.K. Rowling said so in an article. There was no actual proof that said he was actually gay (at least not that I could see) and I've read the Harry Potter series 6-7) times. And what we do have available as far as gay literature and cinema goes is mostly corny camp-fests and romance comedies which are often so perdictable you already know what's going to happen. I'm not trying to offend anybody. This is merely my opinion and an opinion is neither or right or wrong. I just want to see LGBT characters that have some actual depth to them instead of just cardboard cutout clones. I want to see gay heroes that are flawed, who have mental issues and fucked up things going on in their life. I'm not saying don't write about romance or put erotic content-all of my stories have those things in there. That's how you add tension to the story. What I am saying is let's trying to come up with something different, show people that gay characters have just as much of a place in the literary universe as straight characters.

I've thought about doing the whole soundtrack thing. Glad to know that I'm not the only on who thought about it. I love Anne Rice's stuff but there are certain novels for me that I really struggle getting through like The Witching Hour. I don't know why. I really like the witching hour it's just a matter of getting through it.

As a writer/artist who has inspired you? What kind of things do you like to write about? Please share. I'm working on a horror serial novel called Immortui. Horror is my favorite genre. I started watching movies like Halloween and Friday the 13 and The Blob. Since then my taste in horror movies have changed. By the time I was in the fourth grade I was devouring books by Stephen King and Anne Rice. Now I find that my favorite author is Poppy Z. Brite who writes homoerotic horror fiction. I find that Poppy Z. Brite is a highly underrated author. Movies that have inspired me: The Lords of Salem, Tom at the Farm, Donnie Darko, Silent Hill. Anything by directed David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Richard Kelly. I love movies that fuck with your mind and that require multiple viewings, anything with atmosphere. Music even influences my writing: Korn, Marilyn Manson, Tim Skold, Undercover Slut, Gravity Kills, Nine Inch Nails, etc.

Such a powerful start! It sucks you right in. I've always loved mythology and fantasy and it was interesting to see things from the POV of a God (a thing you don't see very often). I also liked the writing, very simple but elegant. Please, keep going!