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January 9, 2014

Mysteristas Guest Blog

Blogging on the planning stages of a new novel today #Mysteristas.

January 7, 2014

Fifth and Final Interview

The final “Blog Ring of Power” Interview with Vicki Lemp Weavil. A wrap-up.

January 6, 2014

Interview Part 4

Today the Blog Ring of Power interviews me on my latest novel, The Star Family.

January 3, 2014

Interview with Charbel Tadros

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Today we welcome Charbel Tadros, fantasy writer.

1. Please tell us a little about yourself.

My name is Charbel Tadros, currently 25 years old. I’m married and expecting a baby soon. I work at a school here in Lebanon in developing and executing life skills programs for students with special needs in addition to being a High School Counselor as well as a writer for the Red Carpet Magazine. I have been into spirituality for over 12 years now and have been writing for over 15. The first novel I published was “The Destined Journey” and it was a spiritual novel which was unexpectedly very well received in Lebanon. I also published a collection of spiritual poetry entitled “When the Spirit Speaks”. My most recent publication is a fantasy novel called “Leviathan”, which will be part of the War of the Heavens Trilogy. I currently live in Brummana, Lebanon.

2. Please tell us about your latest book.

“Leviathan”, my latest novel is an epic fantasy which was inspired by the death of one of my close friends in a car crash a few years back. I used my writing skills and helped revive him in this novel. It is the story of his brother and how he dealt with the tragedy before discovering the world of energy and going from one world to another where he and his girlfriend Vicky meet various mythical creatures. These creatures, including gods, angels and demons, used to interact more with humans before because humans believed in them more. Now, because of that lack of belief, they weren’t acquiring enough energy and couldn’t interact with people anymore.

3. Does this book fit into a series? What is the focus of that series?

“Leviathan” is part of a trilogy called “War of the Heavens”. Its focus is how energy is used in real Magick. The techniques of magick are spread around the books and will help readers understand how energy can be used to perform magickal deeds. Of course, the books will also help readers understand the real meaning of magick and how it is as scientific as physics, though not as well understood.

4. How did you prepare to write about the book’s specific area or field of study?

I don’t usually prepare for writing a book. My brain just tells me that the book is ready and I should start writing. When it does that, I just sit at my laptop and start writing. Most of the time, I have no idea what I’m writing or how events in the story will unfold. Sometimes, I even have to reread what I wrote and discover that I had no idea I knew anything about what I had been writing. I believe that I am just a vessel and things are being written through me.

5. How does this book fit into your real-life interests?

I have always been interested in quantum physics and the law of attraction. When I put them together, I understood how magick works and I got really interested in it. Eventually, I just wrote about it.

6. What are you working on right now?

Currently, I just started working on the second part of the War of the Heavens trilogy. I am also expected to start working on my Master’s thesis about special education in a few months.

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Facebook page: www.facebook.com/waroftheheavens
Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Leviathan-War-Heavens-Charbel-Tadros-ebook/dp/B00HFDJ2T0

January 3, 2014

Interview Part 3

My interview with “The Blog Ring of Power” Part 3: The Creative Process.

January 2, 2014

Another Interview Today

My “Blog of Power” interviews continue today with T.W. Fendley. This one’s on the writing process.

January 1, 2014

I’m Interviewed Today

Terri Bruce interviewed me today on her blog.

December 19, 2013

Miss Essig’s House

My cousin asked me if Miss Essig is based on a real music teacher and if her house exists. Here are the answers.

No. I did have a voice teacher named Miss Star who lived in that little green house in Old Salem on West Street (for those of you who know the area). Miss Star is not really Miss Essig, though. They’re quite different. I made Miss Essig up completely. I took her name from my family tree. Most of the names in The Star Family are family or famous Moravian names. Mr. Mueller, whom David and Jane discuss as their music theory teacher, was a real professor at Salem College and did teach me piano.

Yes, Miss Essig’s house does exist. My father built his house on a plot of land right across the street from this English Tudor and one of my best childhood friends lived in it. When we first moved in, she was standing behind the hedge watching. I didn’t even go inside, but walked across the then tar-covered street and made friends. My mother had to drag me inside later, “Don’t you want to see your new room?” They could tell I wanted to move into the English Tudor. My mother tried to make me be more appreciative of my father’s hard work to make money to build this new house, but he just laughed and said, “When I was a kid, I wanted that house, too.” He’d grown up only two blocks away from it. It’s beautiful, calling forth exclamations from people when they pass it by for the first time.

I’m told it’s changed some since my childhood days. There’s a fish pond where one branch of the driveway was. The hedge is taller now. But it will always live in my memory as it was then. My friend and I climbed the tallest evergreens on the property, played in the rose garden, and picked pears off the ground, then ran from the yellow jackets that would come buzzing out. The gang of girls had many a sleep-over. We played the grand piano in the living room and explored the attic.

She told me there was a hidden staircase in the walk-in closet in her parents’ bedroom. I don’t know if it’s true, because she wouldn’t let me look. That imaginary (or not) staircase is now an intricate part of the mystery.

There is no church in the neighborhood, but the Sisters’ House does exist. It’s a big brick mansion overlooking Washington Park. One of the other large houses does exist, but not in the place I put it. The fourth house I made up completely.

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