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Victor Giannini

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Born
in Mom, The United States
November 22, 1983

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October 2008

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All of Victor's fiction has the same four goals:

"Make evil intelligible, justice desirable, sorrow endurable, and love possible."

So... a bio ... I cannot be objective, save for stating I believe that the best way I can serve humanity is through story-telling. I can't fix your plumbing but I can give you (inser value of said tale here).

I love teaching.

I've done a lot of weird things, juggling knives on unicycles, all the stuff that goes with skateboarding, making comic books, hanging out with Batman (I do a mean Joker impression, yes, I know everyone thinks they do), and I go CRAZY if I don't go out and live as much life as I can and then report back to y'all with some magical realism or some such fiction.

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COUNSELOR is here for pre-order. Details SOON... For now, my friends celebrate life through thrashing


YES!After a decade +, finally, my novel-
COUNSELOR -is coming to you from Silverthought Press.  
You can pre-order now, as some final details are ... finalized... after which I'll announce and explain everything, hoping I don't annoy everyone.
I'm so lucky, happy, and tired... 
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“Make evil intelligible, justice desirable, sorrow endurable, and love possible. My hero taught me that, and for once, I don't mean Batman.”
Victor Giannini

“Advice? Fail constantly. Because the word doesn't mean what you think it means, especially when you're an artist. I use the word artist to mean everything from songwriting to writing a novel to even writing video games. Anything that tells a story, which is almost any medium. Gotta take risks, you gotta go through multiple drafts which means you have to FAIL, a lot. So you won't always get the reaction you always want from every single person, so when you lose that fear of failure, when you stop even thinking of it as failure, and you push yourself farther, you'll take bigger risks, and eventually, after about six or seven hundred rejections, you'll find success. And you'll find a way of conveying what you really want to say, in the best manner. ”
Victor Giannini

“We did what people do. We stood side by side and smoked our little passive aggressive wishes for death, and stared down at our glory days. And then we set the world on fire, for a dream that felt so real is nothing but a risk never taken.”
Victor Giannini, Scott Too

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past..”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“It was necessary, we felt, to thoroughly terrify our opponents, so that even in hollow victory, they would learn to fear every sunrise ...”
Hunter S. Thompson, Screwjack

“The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.”
R.L.S.

“Let it out. That is the first step. All the anger and fear and sadness. I'll be here to pick up the pieces.”
Shikikazu

“It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.”
Jorge Luis Borges

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Victor Giannini Bandit wrote: "Oh yey, first friend comment.
Welcome to Goodreads, Victor :)"

Hey Bandit, I added videos of my readings, Q&A's, and I took your advice about taking photos of my library, just finished uploading a ton of them. Care to take a look? Force your friends too? Gracias amiga .......


Victor Giannini Thank you, it feels warm and cozy to be here, kind of like some sort of large building full of books that I frequented as a child ... a ... libra... a libresbian?


Bandit Oh yey, first friend comment.
Welcome to Goodreads, Victor :)


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