Engaging in good stories is like breathing in fresh air to Dantes. Whether it be watching an engaging movie or reading a fantasy novel by Brandon Sanderson or J.R.R. Tolkien, Gabriel M. Dantes is constantly consuming some new tale, trying to find out what makes that story great. He has been asking such deep questions about stories (as well as about life), since college where he studied philosophy and then later received a Master’s degree in an effort to better understand the human person. Then in 2014 and 2015 he wrote articles and gave countless talks on virtue and human thriving.
Dantes has spent many years now perfecting his world, as well as his his craft, to bring you his first chapter book in Aria’s Adventures series called Finding a Familiar.
He received most of his inspiration from many places, though undeniably the chief source is the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, specifically his book The Silmarillion, a detailed mythic history of Middle Earth. Certainly the whole of Yophea in countless ways is very different from Middle Earth; however, the one thing that certainly is similar to Middle Earth is the symbolic nature of the world itself.
If you have any questions about the author’s writings, his extended lore, or his experience with the writing process itself (if you are a fellow writer), feel free to contact him at his email address:
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He owes much to the support and advice of other authors and he is always happy to help out a new author along the road.