Joyous Melancholy: A Collection of Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781542711869)

My full name is Nathan A. Foy. I was born and raised in Upstate NY and continue to live here with my family. As for writing, I began writing songs when I was 16 years old and later on started writing poems. While working on my Liberal Arts degree at Jefferson Community College I took various English classes including one in Creative Writing. Throughout this period I believe my writing greatly improved, as I'm not very impressed with my early writings. I started writing short storys, and during this time I became heavily involved with Christianity so some of my writings were influenced with that. In 2003 I started a non-fiction Christian based magazine called Desert Cry which had rather rigid teaching. In 2007 I concluded that while there are many great aspects about Christianity it wasn't the spiritual path for me so I ended up discontinuing Desert Cry and focused heavier on putting together my fiction novels. "Conspiracy of Deception" was my first novel which I came up with some of the ideas in 2005 and did most of the writing for it in 2007. I am also authoring the Earth's End Chronicles and have published the first book called "The Experiment." This is a story based on such things as Ragnarok, mythology, shape shifters, ancient aliens, etc. all coming to life in modern times to either bring about or prevent the end of the world. I have other ideas in the making such as I'm co-authoring a children's series with a friend of mine with a setting based in Celtic Folklore. I also have a vampire series in the making, a supernatural book based in the Watertown area, and a fantasy series. My writings tend to be friendly for Wiccan and Pagan readers but can be enjoyed by anyone. I consider myself a spiritual person in which I am drawn to more Earth-based traditions such as Wicca. I find the spiritual realm very intriguing which will be evident when reading my novels. I enjoy the outdoors and doing such things as going on long walks, camping, hiking, rollerblading, canoeing, swimming, etc.