Munky MindJ. Parrish Lewis was born and raised in Maryland. In his youth there, he and his brother had many adventures in the dogwood forests near his home. His nostalgia for these adventures has strongly influenced his characters, their relationships, and their perspective on the world they inhabit. He moved to California’s coast to earn his degree in communications and now lives with his family in the San Joaquin Valley. Lewis is profoundly deaf and uses American Sign Language to communicate. He enjoys hazelnut coffee, captioned movies, and walking his dog.
There is absolutely nothing to prevent deaf folks, whether culturally deaf and using ASL or not, from becoming writers. We can write. We can throw down poems from our minds on paper. We can shape the stories in our minds into the written word. We can also do this in ASL, but I ask: why…
In a few minutes, I plan to open the rough draft of my sequel to The Goblin Road. I suspect that after 4 months of not writing a single word in there, that it’ll look somewhat foreign. So I surround myself with the pleasant atmosphere of a coffeehouse, and I arm myself with a medium…
I’d love to have a graphic novel version of The Goblin Road. If anyone out there’s ever interested, contact me here. Perhaps that’s a missing element right now. It works well as a novel, but for all I know, it’d be great as a graphic novel. It’s a pity I don’t have the artistic skills…
You and I? Shall we write? One word after another until something interesting is born onto the web, a screaming literary baby? Or, abandoning the net for more sheltered writing, shall we work on rough drafts of our too-big, too-small projects? The time might be near for me. The sequel isn’t dead, merely sleeping.
Good changes in my life have led to a lot of delays with working on the sequel, and the web site’s been sitting here quietly like a ghost town, but it’s ok- the world hasn’t ended and neither will my writing.
A few weeks ago, I entered The Goblin Road into Amazon’s annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (ABNA) contest, after seeing that they accept self-published books AND that they now will have two grand prizes instead of one. That the new prize is for the category of Youth Fiction was just a thrill for me.
Hello my friends, family, and other assorted creatures, I hope you’re all living well and enjoying December! I want to thank all of you for your support in the last few months regarding my first book, The Goblin Road, and my ongoing work on the sequel (which here will not be named, lest any mischievous…
If you’ve got one of those handy Kindle e-book readers, which I don’t personally own (I wish I did, despite a love for plain old paperback books) then you can now purchase an electronic copy of The Goblin Road. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE KINDLE PAGE TO BUY THIS BOOK Only $5. For those…
Hello my friends! I want to share some little baubles of thoughts with you on a subject that’s only an inchworm’s width away from my heart: Troll Keeping.