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David N. Alderman

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born

June 12, 1979 in Mountain View, California, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.davidnalderman.com

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Young Adult

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September 2008

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I’ve always hated the act of sitting down to write out an author bio. I can never figure out what to say that will sound somewhat interesting. I read other bios by authors that detail their entire living history across the eastern half of the United States, all of the different schools they attended and degrees they accumulated, and the names and habits of every crazy pet they own.

What does that leave me to work with? Well, I’ll start by stating the fact that I’m a writer. Self-published author, more like it. I don’t have any fancy degrees in regards to my writing craft, but I’ve been writing since I was eleven years old. In the last handful of years, I’ve written and self-published four novels, some short stories, and a novella. The majori...more I’ve always hated the act of sitting down to write out an author bio. I can never figure out what to say that will sound somewhat interesting. I read other bios by authors that detail their entire living history across the eastern half of the United States, all of the different schools they attended and degrees they accumulated, and the names and habits of every crazy pet they own.

What does that leave me to work with? Well, I’ll start by stating the fact that I’m a writer. Self-published author, more like it. I don’t have any fancy degrees in regards to my writing craft, but I’ve been writing since I was eleven years old. In the last handful of years, I’ve written and self-published four novels, some short stories, and a novella. The majority of what I write falls into a strange gray area between science fiction/fantasy and Christian fiction. It’s a gray area because my stories contain violence, sexual themes and other ‘edgy’ content but themes of redemption and faith run throughout.

I also love to read. I remember reading Mark Twain’s work when I was younger and fell in love with Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. I remember reading terrific and sometimes horrifying short stories in school 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. Between then and now I haven’t really read much, but I’m getting back into it. Currently I’m reading the Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks.

Beyond reading, I am also an avid video gamer - have been since I was old enough to hold a game controller. I’m a huge fan of FPS (First Person Shooters) and RPG (Role Playing Games). On a daily basis you can find me online playing a game of Half Life 2: Deathmatch with my clan, {(.:A.o.S:.)}.

Oh, you want to know all the other stuff too? Well, my wife and I are expecting our first child this month. We live in Arizona, where the heat has forced me to dream of moving to California. And we have a cat obsessed with paper products.

Anything else you want to know? Drop me a line. dna@davidnalderman.com. And if you have a moment, please check out my website - www.davidnalderman.com - where you can read more about my edgy Christian speculative fiction. Or, if you’re a fellow writer/Christian and would like to follow my journey as a self-published author, check out my blog - www.abrokenreality.blogspot.com.(less)

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Webster's New International Dictionary - 1920

Over the past couple weeks, I've been busy working on the website and the timeline while I wait for edits to come back on Black Earth: Dark Masquerade. So while we all wait for the release of Dark Masquerade (which will be soon, I assure you), I thought I'd (finally) post some of the old books I acquired during my last trip to California.

The first in my collection isn't one I acquired for fre... read more »

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Books by David N. Alderman

Average rating: 3.83 · 24 ratings · 15 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Black Earth: End of the Innocence 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Black Earth: The Broken Daisy by David N. Alderman (Goodreads Author), Michal C. Alderman (Cover Design) 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Picture Perfect 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Expired Reality Endangered Memories 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Lost Birth: an Expired Reality novel (#2) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Endangered Memories: an Expired Reality novel (#1) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Black Earth Double Pack 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Expired Reality Lost Birth 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Expired Reality 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	My rating:

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David Alderman gave to: Casino Royale (James Bond, #1) by Ian Fleming read in May, 2012	My rating:
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David Alderman is on page 147 of 192 of Casino Royale Casino Royale (James Bond, #1) by Ian Fleming progress:	My rating:
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David Alderman said "maybe" to attending the event: Awaited Book Signing with Alan Dean Foster date: May 15, 2012 07:00PM location: Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 S McClintock Dr, Tempe, AZ, The United States description: We're celebrating the release of AWAITED with a very special guest: Alan Dean Foster, one of the most renowned fantasy writers of modern times made his name breaking Science Fiction genre – aliens, creatures – in the 70s with Star Trek & Chronicles of Riddick. Lynn Rush is breaking genre ground with the New Adult Paranormal Romance – demons & guardians. Joint book launch of Awaited, the second in Rush’s Wasteland trilogy & Foster’s Body, Inc, second in his trilogy with both signing b...more
Apr 26, 2012 09:43am
David Alderman added: Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You by Joyce Meyer	My rating:
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David Alderman gave to: Dust (Jacob's Ladder, #1) by Elizabeth Bear (Goodreads Author) read in April, 2012	My rating:
When I first saw Dust in my local bookstore, I put it on my list of 'want-to-read-later' books. The description and the cover did enough to spark my curiosity. It wasn't until I actually obtained this book and then put it on my 2012 Reading List that...more
Apr 13, 2012 09:27am · see review
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David Alderman marked as to-read: Timeline by Michael Crichton	My rating:
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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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