A pirate/mermaid love story fantasy set in the 17th - 18th centuries the Golden Age of pirates. A thrilling adventure that creatures a new and unique mythology - Book 1 of the Gemstone Series.
If I had to be classified, I'd call myself a visceralist. For me, good fiction is about powerful experience.
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My education is in English, Physics and Russian. My passion is the stories people tell, which means history, myth, and fiction. Influences range from Aquinas to Zelazny. Oscar Wilde's idea of prose poetry had a large influence on me, as did Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary." I am a writer because the alternative is inconceivable. I am a lover of words and music and motion.
Birth Place
Albany, OR USA
Accomplishments
Short Story Collection "The Lives Of Ghosts And Other Shades Of Memory" won the 2001 Eppie for best anthology.
NESFA winner (for The Lives Of Ghosts) in 1998.
"Lanikaula And The Powers Of Lanai" placed in Altair's International Short Story Competition in 1998.
Loren W Cooper's fourth novel, CrossTown, released from Red Hen Press November 14 available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Independent Bookstores everywhere. His first three novels, his award-winning short story collection The Lives of Ghosts, and his nonfiction work Chain of Ghosts about the roots of storytelling are available on Amazon in Kindle format.
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