Reflections in Darkness: Book 7 of The Quietus of Fate (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781942082132)

Brian Kershner is a life-long dreamer, writer, and problem-solver. He grew up absorbing anything and everything he could get his hands on, and as a child of the Star Wars era he constantly wanted to see the worlds beyond the little Indiana town he grew up in. There was no adventure too far, and no problem too big. Emboldened by parents who always supported his curiosity and his thoughtfulness, Brian found himself bounding from Space Camp to Laser Summer Camp to Athletic Training Camp to Piano Lessons to Football Practice to Basketball Practice to Choir Practice and back again. Despite all of the roaming and traveling, his family remained close-knit and supportive. Though he flirted with the idea of becoming a doctor, Brian's attentions always fell back to the computer world. He got his first computer when he was six, and not long after found his way into a word processing program and began crafting his own fantastical worlds and even more fantastical characters. As he has grown and changed and experienced life, so too have his characters. He continues to write, craft, and create; whether it is websites for his customers, or characters and worlds for his audience. "Twenty-five years ago, I was enamored with works by Tolkien, Dante, Godwin, and just about every book on King Arthur I could get my hands on. On top of that I read every single one of the Hardy Boys novels, falling in love with the idea of mysteries with unconventional resolutions and fantastical wordplay. "I started simply, a story about a hero and the small band of people he gathered around him. It was all hand-written on yellow legal pads, collected in a binder; a mixture of a child's imagination and a child's writing talent. At the time I was twelve. I always told myself that one day it would be something more. "As a freshman in high school, that something more came in the form of a promise to myself. As much as I loved high fantasy, I was plagued by the fact that it was hard at times to relate to fantasy characters and to see their humanity behind the extraordinary abilities that they often possessed. So I made a promise to myself and anyone who would ever read my works that my characters would be as real as any person they could meet off the street. Whether you loved them or hated them, you could always relate to them, or at least understand their motivations. "Hopefully they will live for you and bring you the same joy."