Paul Joseph Santoro Emerick was born in the mid-1980s from a middle-class family with a military service background carried on by each generation, including him as a US Navy vetera...mehr sehenPaul Joseph Santoro Emerick was born in the mid-1980s from a middle-class family with a military service background carried on by each generation, including him as a US Navy veteran. He currently works as a teacher when not writing. The author still lives in the same general area that he grew up in Southern California. Paul’s sources of inspiration for writing in the fantasy genre stem from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, R.A. Salvatore’s The Crystal Shard, and various folk tales from Greco-Roman mythology. He has published two previous novels before this current publication including Portals of Infinite Enchantment: The Legends of Latera from 2008 and Swordbane from 2022. Originally the author did not intend to write a sequel to Swordbane. However, by the time that he had reached the end of the story he had realized how much invested and passionate he had become with the characters and setting from the book. It was not enough for him to have the story as a standalone novel. Even his children after hearing the night time PG version stories of Swordbane wanted to ask that he would continue the story. Shimmerfrost: Swordbane Book II therefore was conceived in which Paul would continue to immerse the reader in the same world of epic fantasy storytelling while evoking strong dark fantasy vibes.weniger sehen