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J.A. Paul

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All my life I have loved stories, whether told to me as I sat on my grandfather's lap or the one's I later discovered on my school's library shelves. So naturally I started writing short stories and have ever since been learning and developing the craft of writing and storytelling.

One night after a long bedtime story, one of my sons challenged me to write a 'real' book. So I borrowed an idea from a writer friend and asked my boys to choose three things to go in the story. They chose a dragon, a tree, and a ruby, and from the seed of that idea, the story of Gladius grew.

I set out to show my sons that if you put your mind to something, it can be done. Once I started writing the Gladius series, I knew I wanted to create a fantasy adventure nov...more

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Average rating: 4.29 · 21 ratings · 14 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors

	Gladius and the Bartlett Trial 4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011 — 3 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
	Gladius and the Sea of Lost Souls (Book 2 of The Gladius Adventure Series) 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 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

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