Bio

I was born in Passaic, NJ in General Hospital July 1st, 1987 growing up as the oldest of four children. My interest in stories and books started at a really early age. Laughing, I remember of an old picture my mother has of me holding a birthday card upside down. I was only about a year old at the time. But the fact that back then I had that attachment to books and even paper in general surprised me. I really started getting in literature in late middle school early high school when I started to notice that I had a talent for cartooning as well.

       A Shounen Jump changed my life forever. Go ahead, laugh, I’m being serious… I was helping my mother’s friend with her shopping when I came across it in a magazine rack. It was the first translated comic book released in the United States. I read through it and I couldn’t let it go. It was so boyish that I was embarrassed to ask the lady to buy it for me, (besides I was helping her as well so it was rude to ask her to buy me something) so I ended up stealing it. From that magazine I went to buying Japanese comic books called mangas to watching Saturday night anime on Adult Swim on Cartoon Network® to watching other anime that can only be streamed online in spoken Japanese with only English subtitles…

   I’ve become a full-blown fan and it’s completely affected my writing. I’d say it’s made it made what it is today. My drawings also reflect its artistic style as well. Although I still have a lot to go at this point. I learned of the term ‘fan fiction’ from a friend I met in my junior year of high school. She also introduced me to online blogging. (And online story role-plays). Writing fan fiction gave me a chance to improve my abilities and challenge myself—taking characters from a TV show and putting in a your own plot while still preserving the character’s original personality from the show is a HUGE challenge and to this day I still relish it…

      By my senior year I had several chapter drafts written for “The Orphan” (but it was nowhere as good at the time) I showed it to another friend who said that it was a really excellent concept and that it was capable of being the next Harry Potter. I laughed, I didn’t think that was good but I gave her the first chapter for her to take it to an editor she personally knew. Weeks later, she came back and told me that he liked it! He was willing to work with it when it was finished. Unfortunately, she got pregnant and I lost contact with her. And to this day, I still haven’t finished working on it.

      I couldn’t graduate that senior year because I failed gym and so that same summer of 2006, I took the GED exam and passed it with flying colors. I still remember how infuriated my mother was. I couldn’t afford to waste time in repeating my senior year just because I didn’t wear a stupid gym uniform (all we did was pretend to do exercise and sit on the sidelines). I entered Passaic County Community College (PCCC) in Paterson, a neighboring city, to do two years majoring in Liberal Arts. I was planning to be Biology, and/or an English teacher.

      Then as if sensing my good fortune, fate took it’s turn and swiped my mother of her job, her benefits AND a divorce… it all happened underneath it all boiling until it reached its point where I saw it—when it was too late. With the rent and living expenses being off the roof my mother took the next best thing: Moving out-of-state. I dropped out of college and in May of and customs from a fully urban Hispanic upbringing to such a plain quiet-town American suburb was almost too much for me. I remember singing and talking to myself to avoid hearing the silence.

      Around the summer of 2008, I was finally able to enter college again. But this time my major was Computer Science and Programming. I figured that I needed some IT knowledge if I was going to get into making my own website one day and working with Photoshop and all. Now I know there’s WAY more to computers than just that. But I have a bad habit of keeping my options open. Now I’m starting to see that I might also get into Desktop Publishing if all else fails… Heck I still hope that I’ll be able to become a teacher still…. oh well. For now, all I do is just study and write. (More studying than writing actually) And like the wind, I’ll see where life takes me…