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This book is an anti-autobiography

Some say that every work of fiction is an autobiography and every character in a book is the author. But this book is not about me. It is not an autobiography. This book is exactly the opposite. Drakon is about them. The others. The ones we call barbarians. Our enemies. The Drakons. The ones St. George and our millennial-old knights, princes and saints were sent to slain. The evil ones. The ones who are born and raised to hate us. The ones we as educated, liberal people fear, despise or disa...

How to buy, read and review Drakon by C.A. Caskabel. All you need to know.

After three years of hard work Drakon Book I: The Sieve is coming to Amazon
http://bit.ly/Drakon-BookI-Amazon

Here is how you can HELP (read all the way to the end of the message to claim your reward):

1. Go to Amazon and buy the book
http://bit.ly/Drakon-BookI-Amazon

If you read eBooks you can get it for only $0.99 (+VAT in Europe). You can read Amazon Kindle in any tablet by downloading the Amazon Kindle app, assuming you have an Amazon account.
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When, what, how. All you need to know.

Drakon is actually one book and not a series, one epic story close to 350,000 words. For comparison purposes, the Lord of the Rings trilogy is 437K words, A Game of Thrones (Book I is 287K words) and War and Peace is 565K words.

I decided, given that this is a self-publishing (ad)venture, to publish the book in four installments. I believe there is a decent attempt at closure at the end of each of the first three books, and there is definite closure at the end of the fourth book. Didn’t have...

O you magnificent reader of books, I need your help

ΤΗΕ SUMMARY: My book, Drakon Book I: The Sieve, is coming out next week. I need your help.
THE IMPOSSIBLE MISSION: I have to convince you to buy my book it, read it and review it. Next week. But you are too busy, you don’t read and when you read it is only Ishiguro and David Foster Wallace. Or Fifty Shades of Gray and the sports pages.
THE CAST: ME and YOU
THE SETTING: You are about to enter a fancy wine store that carries all the best labels, from the top wineries you love. You don’t have mu...

Is this book for you?

This is a boring post, yet it contains a lot of useful information, I hope.

Drakon is an epic fantasy book –I don’t like much the series term, because this is really one story– approximately 350,000 words or 1,000 pages. It will be released in four parts throughout the next twelve months.

It is a work of fiction that belongs to the fantasy genre, though some will doubt it. It is closer to the subgenre defined as hard-fantasy. According to the Wikipedia definition:

Hard fantasy is a subgenre...

Review: Intoxicating journey

When I first started reading Drakon I was apprehensive. Like I would be if I had to jump off a plane, or walk on hot coals. There was a knot in my stomach. I felt that I had to surpass something within myself. Can I read through the blood, the battles, the maniacal lust for power? By the third chapter the knot was gone. By the sixth not only had I abandoned my apprehensiveness but I was embracing the age and times of Drakon, enchanted, carried away. Page after page I felt provoked, thirsting...

Intoxicating journey

When I first started reading Drakon I was apprehensive. Like I would be if I had to jump off a plane, or walk on hot coals. There was a knot in my stomach. I felt that I had to surpass something within myself. Can I read through the blood, the battles, the maniacal lust for power? By the third chapter the knot was gone. By the sixth not only had I abandoned my apprehensiveness but I was embracing the age and times of Drakon, enchanted, carried away. Page after page I felt provoked, thirsting...

Do you hate ebooks? Drakon Book I: The Sieve, just came out in paperback

You can orderDRAKON Book I: THE SIEVE Paperback Edition, in Amazon for $ 7.99.

Do not be fooled. The Sieve, Book 1 of 4 of the Drakon epic fantasy series, is the tale of twelve-year old Da-Ren but this is not a young-adult series. Your children shouldn’t read it until they’re children no more.
On his thirty-second year Da-Ren arrives on the island of the Castlemonastery to redeem the lives of his wife and daughter. His only offering is a jar of honey. He is born in a pagan tribe, north of th...

In praise of #4, and #14

Watching the Rio Olympics with my daughter:
“Dad, what did our champion do last night in the Olympics?”
“She came eleventh.”
“Eleventh? Pffff! Disaster.”
“Well, she ranked ahead of 3.5 billion other women, and I am certain that she is better than 3.5 billion men -give or take a dozen- as well. I’ll be shitting myself with fatherly pride if you make it in the top-eleven of anything in the world when you grow up. I haven’t so far.”
The next time I’ll try to work on the “our champion” thing. Sh...

Something must be done, and believe me I am the one to do it!

So, the quote I was looking for. I found it. It was the Reverent Mother Taraza, from Frank Herbert’s Dune.
“In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. Show me someone who says, “Something must be done!” and I will show you a head full of vicious intentions that have no other outlet. What we must strive for always! is to find the natural flow and go with it.
–The Reverent Mother Taraza, Conversational Record, BG File GSXXMAT9