Pivotal Dawn: Otherworldly Adventures. Real-World Stakes

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are deamt of in your philosophy.”

– William Shakespeare.

I like as much reality in my fantasy as possible, even when it comes to my high/epic fantasy works. That is to say, I like things to be plausible.

The magic of my Pivotal Dawn universe is that it draws from the legends and rumors and myths of our own universe. I prefer a more biological, or evolutionary approach, if you will. What is not biological or evolutionary; is every bit as befuddling to the humans of Pivotal Dawn as it is to those who walk on the outskirts unscathed by time, illness, or injury. As is, in the worlds I build, the rules of one mythical anomaly may be entirely different for a different mythical anomaly.

Not everyone is the same.

Of course, there are theories in my universe, ranging from scientific to philosophical, but there is no one reason or explanation for why certain entities exist, or how… Just like in our reality.

And for the rest…

I don’t think I’m alone in feeling like the modern world we live in today is giving ‘dystopian’ more almost every day. Hell, if you’re a fellow doom scroller, it’s more like every hour.

I love creating fantasy worlds, but why place the characters of Pivotal Dawn in a fantasy realm when the one we live in already has so much mystery?

So much hope. So much turmoil. So much possibility. So much potential...

Let’s face it, fam. These are interesting times. As an avid savant of history, I know most every era has been wrought by its share of strife, but never in the history of our beautiful, blue planet has there been such a rapid takeover of technology. Super computers. Artificial Intelligence. Nuclear weapons.

Billionaires.

Basing Pivotal Dawn in the real world gives me the opportunity to submerge my audience in the world I know we are capable of creating together, if only we can discard our differences long enough to band together.

After all, like so many of my characters, we – each of us – are more than what we seem.

My books draw from this unseen and often forgotten reality, asserting that there may be nothing more exciting than considering that the entities we read about might have been existing alongside us all the while.

Anyway, no matter how powerful our true selves are, living in this time, these bodies, in this country, on this planet isn’t always easy, and rarely do things make sense. The same can be said for Jin Banksee, and Dominic Spencer.

Though, in a way, the two protagonists come from completely different worlds, Jin and Dominic aren’t nearly as different as you might suspect. The place Dominic comes from is as much a mystery to him as it is to Jin. They are both in their hearts hopeless romantics. They both boldly face their challenges, shortcomings and errors in an effort to be better for themselves, and for each other, a practice that builds into the hope of cultivating a better future for everyone.

They are both loving, and stubborn. They both want to be good.

These are what draw them together. The trials that threaten to keep them apart have nothing to do with their feelings for each other. What enters between them are the inevitable mountains and monsters that anyone with a destiny is fated to face. The only difference is, for Jin and Dominic, those mountains and monsters are usually supernatural.

Jin comes to realize that the world we live in is steeped in more mystery, more possibility, more conspiracy, more potential than she, or anyone can fathom, and that no one has all the answers, not even Dominic. I like to think that’s as true for our reality as it is in the Pivotal Dawn reality.

I mean…on a tiny planet spinning around a plasma sun. Buried in an unquantifiable universe with as much blackness and light as our own psyches. With flesh and bones and blood made of the same stuff as stars. Seeing with eyes that only perceive about one hundred and fifty colors in the visible light spectrum. Using brains built of mush to create art and reality and entire realms. Who’s to tell us where the veil between this world ends, and a new world begins?

Annnnd done, (for now).

What do you think of the introduction to my universe? And remember, if you haven’t already sampled chapters, you can start here. Next, take a look at The Process: the evolution of my writing habits through Pivotal Dawn, and finding the answer to that most modern question. Traditional, or self publishing?

I’ll be excited to see you there! 

And in the meantime remember. Life is Art. Live it.