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David N. Alderman

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in Mountain View, California, The United States

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Young Adult

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I love to write.

It's a simple statement, constantly overused in the literary world to express people's vague intentions to create anything of literary worth. Yet for me, this simple statement holds the epitome of one of my greatest passions in this life. Writing is more than a craft, it is air to my lungs. Writing is more than a hobby, it is photosynthesis. Writing is more than a task or an action, it is life.

My love for writing began at the age of eleven when I began writing fantastical stories about a young man and his friends and their adventures taking down the world's most threatening criminal organization. Even though I'm thirty-three now, married, and have a child of my own, those characters who allied themselves with me back in 1992...more I love to write.

It's a simple statement, constantly overused in the literary world to express people's vague intentions to create anything of literary worth. Yet for me, this simple statement holds the epitome of one of my greatest passions in this life. Writing is more than a craft, it is air to my lungs. Writing is more than a hobby, it is photosynthesis. Writing is more than a task or an action, it is life.

My love for writing began at the age of eleven when I began writing fantastical stories about a young man and his friends and their adventures taking down the world's most threatening criminal organization. Even though I'm thirty-three now, married, and have a child of my own, those characters who allied themselves with me back in 1992 still live with me to this day. Within me. And each day I attempt to translate their tales into inky glyphs on paper or pixels on a computer screen. Their stories are more than mere fiction. These characters help to make up the character of me. I am the heroes. I am the villains. I am the good and the evil. I am the depressed and the misunderstood. I am the beaten, the downtrodden. I am the underdog. I am all of them, and all of them are me to some degree or another. To write their stories is to recognize and acknowledge the many facets, however strange, of my own personality.

A good portion of my life is devoted to writing, and in that regard, to self-publishing. I already tried to go through the traditional publishing channels years ago and ended up with a nice little collection of rejection slips - and those were just from potential agents. It was at that point I realized I didn't want to waste my writing life waiting around for someone else to see something of value in me or my writing. I saw it for myself, took hold, and decided to go the road of self-publishing. I won't lie, it's been a rough road, but it's been so worth it. It's a funny thing when people ask what I do for a living. I say writer and they are either so entranced by the fact that I've had the patience to sit and write a book, or they scoff or roll their eyes or attempt to stifle a laugh. What they don't know is what goes on behind the writing curtain. Sometimes I find I have to stifle the urge to justify what I do for a living by launching into a grocery list of the many hats I wear as a full time, self-published author. This profession, this bitter love of mine is my cross to bear, my poison to drink. And I only say that in regards to the mixed bag of difficulties and rewards that writing - and self-publishing - offers.

To be a good writer, one must love to read to some degree. My childhood especially was heavily influenced by reading. I remember reading Mark Twain’s work in my youth and falling in love with the characters of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. I remember reading terrific and sometimes horrifying short stories like Edgar Allen Poe's, The Cask of Amontillado and The Pit and the Pendulum, along with James Thurber’s, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. My senior year of high school I read through the Han Solo trilogy and fell in love with science fiction/fantasy and the Star Wars universe in its entirety. Nowadays I have an entire shelf full of books that have made their own requests to be read, including Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and Ted Dekker and Tosca Lee's work.

Beyond writing, beyond reading, I find that I love to spend most of my 'free' time in the world of video games. These days it seems there's a negative stigma attached to the air surrounding those who 'play video games'. We're sometimes looked at as lazy, irresponsible, neglectful of our 'real' lives. That's not the case, at least not with a good percentage of us. Video games are an artwork all their own. Combining music, storytelling, animation and voice acting, they are the epitome of the arts, many talents coming together for ones entertainment - or sometimes ones escape. And it's okay to escape into the world of a video gam(less)

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April Update

As most of you have noticed, I've been away from this blog for the past couple months. It's a very long story as to why I was MIA from social media in general, but for the moment I'll simply give all of you an update on what I'm currently working on and what projects are on the horizon.

Most of my time at the moment has been spent getting settled in California. Back in August, my wife and I wer... Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.90 · 49 ratings · 32 reviews · 11 distinct works · Similar authors

	Black Earth: End of the Innocence (Black Earth, #1) 3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Earth: The Broken Daisy (Black Earth, #2) by David N. Alderman (Goodreads Author), Michal C. Alderman (Cover Design) 4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Picture Perfect 3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Earth: Dark Masquerade (Black Earth, #3) 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Earth: Exodus (Black Earth, #4) 4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Expired Reality Endangered Memories 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Birth: an Expired Reality novel (#2) 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Endangered Memories: an Expired Reality novel (#1) 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Earth Double Pack 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Expired Reality Lost Birth 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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David Alderman wants to read Sun Stand Still: What Happens When You Dare to Ask God for the Impossible by Steven Furtick	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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David Alderman wants to read The Grand Weaver: How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives by Ravi Zacharias	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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David Alderman rated a book 3 of 5 stars Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan read in April, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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David Alderman is currently reading Case for Faith, The by Lee Strobel	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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David Alderman is on page 145 of 205 of Crazy Love Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan progress:	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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David Alderman rated a book 5 of 5 stars The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears by Mark Batterson	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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David Alderman made a comment on New Expired Reality Covers "Peter wrote: "Mark, I have read picture perfect. Have their been any changes to the other two novels as I recently bought them." No changes to the nove...more "
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David Alderman rated a book 4 of 5 stars Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, #5) by Stephen King read in January, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Wolves of the Calla is the fifth volume in Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and in my opinion, a decent addition to the collection. The plot finds Roland Deschain and his ka-tet arriving in Calla Bryn Sturgis, a collection of small communities ravag...more
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David Alderman made a comment on Fall Project Goals "D.M. wrote: "You are productive as heck, man. Good luck on your release of the new Black Earth books, and good luck to us both with nanowrimo." Thanks,...more "
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David Alderman added Fathom: The Definitive Edition Volume 1 by Michael Layne Turner read in November, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.”
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