1. I write my books in English which is my fifth language

2. I don't have a pet at the moment

3. Illustrations take up to a week to finish. Still working on some 

4. The series started as a standalone, but the main characters were the same from the start

5. My hobbies are, in random order: drawing, travelling, music, photography, eating, shopping, reading, movies

6. Things I can't live without: coffee, music, phone, and airplanes

7. Interests: sciences, history, art, technology, video editing

When I travel, I look at the world through rose-tinted glasses. I happily adopt customs that look strange in other places, and then I delight in the confusion these cause, like bowing to ninety degrees at a supermarket checkout in the States, or wearing a galabeya when everyone else dawns a suit at a technology trade show in Berlin. Joining our most traditional customs to build a future society without borders might be the first step in fostering that collective conscience Sun and Thunder are fighting for. We are still very far from it, and my rose-tinted glasses don’t do enough to hide our world’s reality. 

The Sun and Thunder series is in many ways allegoric, but it’s ultimate purpose is to leave us, writer and reader, with a sense of hope and optimism.

Writing and illustrating this five-volume series was a dream come true. Even though it started as a standalone, volume two was already implied. The Magic Garden of Adayarana was destined to deal with individual morals, while Iarnahana moved into interpersonal values and principles. 

Lost Worlds came as a natural progression, addressing social norms, responsibility, and social  integrity. 

Nui and The Dreamers came, feverishly, right on the heels of Lost Worlds, due to an ardent need of addressing events that hit home, or better said, will hit home in two centuries. 

Although all five books are full-fledged fantasy novels, queer high fantasy to be more precise, it will be inevitable not to project some of the series' events into our own future.

Creating whimsical illustrations for a queer high fantasy series might not be a common choice. I opted for a colorful approach because it felt right and just to embellish the story as much as possible. Queer stories are not always cheerful, and two queer action heroes are surely not the norm. A universe in which they shine like heroes, where they are valued as the purest souls, devoid of wrongdoings, needed to be dazzling. Each illustration takes the reader deeper and deeper into the magic world of Sun and Thunder. The illustrations are originally sketched in pencil on paper, and color is then added layer upon layer, as cleanly as possible to preserve their vibrancy. The tools I used are as varied as they come, but do not include watercolor, acrylics, or oil – only regular school supplies, so to speak. The drawings are then digitalized for printing, and a frame is added to adjust them easier to different book sizes. 

Fantasy novels come with author biographies. Publishing houses spend a lot of effort in promoting authors. My personal choice is to remain anonymous. Sun and Thunder have been part of my life for over a decade and I hope they will become part of the lives of others as well in the future. I would like to continue writing and still have to finish a lot of drawings to keep up, what leaves very little time for personal publicity. Please love them as much as I love them. Thus, the backside of each book I write doesn’t have my bio, but comes with an emoji strip – a graphic representation and explanation, emoji-style, of the content of each book. The emoji strip for the Sun und Thunder series includes the rainbow flag, the double male sign, a symbol for magic, for sci-fi, for woke, and for adult content. With that being said, allow me to reiterate that all five books in the series include explicit adult content.

Where do Sun and Thunder exist? In what Universe? Since they eventually land on Planet Earth, their “universe” exists as a high-fantasy possibility somewhere in our solar system, what makes it plausible for them to cover the vast distances. Fantasy and magic allow us to perceive it as possible. I use the terms of kingdom, land, realm, world, planet, or universe loosely, since our “world” is what we want it to be, or what we believe it to be. There is one universe though in the series that does not belong neither here nor there, and that is the realm of the fairies. The five volumes revolve around it, look for it, fight for it. That universe, that realm, is allegoric and represents the humans’ moral conscience. Sun and Thunder, as pure and perfect humans, are allowed to step into it, to enter the place were love, hope, trust, and many other such gems live, personified as fairies. And that is where the magic really happens, and where the imagination knows no bounds.

Corpedium is the cup that holds, for now, the Sun and Thunder series, Olina, and Papook, and where other illustrated or non-illustrated books will find a home. The 5-volume queer high fantasy series is slated to drop between October 2026 and April 2027. Will there be a sequel? A spin-off? Yes. Nui brought in a slew of new characters who might want to keep adventuring on their own. Or maybe Sun and Thunder are not done yet, something I find highly probable. Still, the art for Nui and for The Dreamers is on my desk, and special art editions for Vol 4 and 5 can be expected late 2027 or early 2028. Meanwhile, a new standalone historical adventure book is in the draft stages, and two YA books I wrote longer time ago, for the younger ones among the young adults, need illustrating. Corpedium is also open to bring to life books by other authors who are as unconventional as me, and don’t mind to be lumped in with my chaotic and colorful cast of characters.