It's been a while since I uploaded any new reading material. It's great to see that what I have here has been read and reviewed favorably - thank you for that!

I have been writing as I am working to go pro with a lot of my work. I have also been attending school as a computer graphics designer - and recently graduated. Yay! This'll make it easy to make sure that my book covers reflect my stories the way that I envision them. Most, if not all will be published as e-books, some free, others inexpensively so that I can continue to support the habit and the bills. Heh.

"Claiming: A Drow Rite" is in the process of being rewritten so as to be closer to a novella in length and will very likely still be free, although it will see minor changes so as to no longer be associated directly with its original DnD world. I have also added a delightful new female character to the longer story who is quite cuddly, playful and charming, not in the way of a plucky comic relief, but more of an additional love interest for Duilliath. (Gotta love those love triangles!).

"The Priestess and the Paladin" from my WoW story has also been updated (and is still free). This story was well received in a short story contest and has seen a title and character name change. It can be found now as "His Priestess" and "Sebau" is now "Theron", the character name change is because the name Sebau is being used in a much longer Egyptian Historical novel as it better fits the genre.

Oh! This is a bio.... Who am I? My handle is Aeiri, which is the shortened version of a name I created and adopted from the very early 1980's when the DnD game book "The Fiend Folio" came out, that name being "Aeiristus". The personality actually developed later in the early 1990's and evolved through the 2000's, with the help of a fictitious forbidden love interest (also a story being written. but deviating from her game history for a better sense of purpose within a story as opposed to random wanderings or dice-roll encounters) . Aeiri is a Drow (dark elf) fighter and a damned good one... she's also, pretty much "damned" (or at least "excommunicated") in life. I personally have not seen near the adversity or hardships the character has, but she and I resonate with a shared spirit and shared past - I viewed myself as a fighter while I served in the US military for 10 very good years during Gulf War 1 (a.k.a. "Desert Storm"). Well, you might think since I created the character there SHOULD be a resonation there, the reality is that not all characters created in the mind of someone writing makes the "cut". Just like in sports or the making of movies, characters and individuals who are not strong enough or skilled enough or play an important enough part to the team or the story simply get removed. To me, the story I invented for Aeiri is a passion and passion (along with good structure and interesting circumstances) is what drives a good story.

I have lived in many states in the U.S. and I have lived overseas in the Orient. I have traveled for temporary duty assignments, especially during GW1, and explored many cultures which serves to greatly influence my perspective - the U.S,. although a fabulous place to be, has a tunnel-vision view of itself. I do not state this in a bad way, I love my country just as much as anyone else, I offered my life up to it for its needs, and I am a devout patriot for it. But seeing lots of the rest of the world, from 3rd world cultures to modern marvels, has opened my eyes as to why we can't just get along as our wonderful, idealistic pacifists would love for it to be. I have come to understand why other cultures do what they do and why they do it.

Ok, so the mundane - in the ordinary world I have been happily married for over 30 years to a man I've known for over 40 (we met in school and he's my co-writer and co-artist). We had a daughter together (who's been a Goth for half of her life, she's almost 30), and shared our lives with many cats (a few of them world-travelers, like us) - presently, we have 3 delightful fur balls: one is 12, one is 4, and the youngest is coming up on her 1st birthday - all of them are rescue animals. We've lived in deserts, on coastlines, on tropical islands, in the mountains, on the prairie, in forests, on Air Force bases, and along the Mississippi, Red, and Snake Rivers - I grew up along the Mississippi. We've lived in a wide variety of homes, to include a couple of haunted ones (yes, we're believers). We did live in New Mexico for 14 years but never once saw a "UFO" and only a handful of aliens (the illegal kind). My daughter has never forgiven me for "scaring away" tornados when we lived in "Tornado Alley" because she desperately wanted to be a storm chaser - can't help it, tornados avoid me. Hurricanes and typhoons, however are apparently more bold and we've experienced a few to include at least one category 5 - most of my military tour was spent in humanitarian clean-up efforts after hurricanes/typhoons and floods.

Ok, that's it (for now). Writing calls.... Toodles!