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- Do you want to spend some pleasant hours reading engaging tales that stimulate your imagination?
“Silent Desperation” is a collection of 9 short stories and 18 poetry pieces. Each story and poem is written to capture characters in convincing detail while each covers a range of subjects.
Especially geared to readers that enjoy literary fiction, the stories and poems are filled with concepts and dialogue that will leave the reader thinking about the stories for days afterwards. Each story is different and stands alone, but the book as a whole contains a theme that connects many of them; that of identifying and overcoming a problem or mystery.
Jeff Bryan is currently a long-standing member of senior management at a privately held government contractor, has worked closely with NASA over the years, and holds a Master's degree in education from a major Midwest university. Each of these aspects of personal experience can be identified within the contents of this book.
About the author:
Jeff Bryan lives in sunny Florida with his wife, Arlene. Both from Illinois, and having attended High School together, they had the good fortune to share homeroom class for all four years.
Five years after High School graduation, the couple met quite coincidentally in the frozen foods section of a local grocery store. They were married the following year. Now, after more than 22 years of marriage, they have three beautiful daughters, three cats, and one dog.
Answers to some often-asked questions
How did the idea came about for the book Silent Desperation?
The mix of stories and poetry in “Silent Desperation” reflect pieces created off and on over a 15 year period. So while none of them were written to be part of a book like this, a friend suggested that putting together a collection of my favorites might be fun for my readers. So I set out to select stories and poems that had a common feel or theme. Oddly, the hardest part of the exercise was choosing the title for the collection. Originally I had wanted to title the collection for the story “The Forever Man”, but my editor insisted that the title should be that of “Silent Desperation”, as, in their opinion, that was the most powerful piece in the collection. So in the end, and as usual, I did as the Editor suggested.
What is my process for writing?
As I imagine is true for most authors of fiction, over the years I've enjoyed reading for pleasure. Recently I’ve been exploring epic stories that range between science fiction and more contemporary fiction, and I had been trying my hand at capturing some of my own ideas during that time.
In essence, many of the poems were written as a sort of conceptual shorthand – capturing an idea/emotion/impact that I wanted to convey in a longer story. In many cases, I never stopped with the poem, but just moved right on into the story. Most of the stories in “Silent Desperation” are of that variety. The poems included after the stories are mostly topics that I expect to write short stories or novels around in the future.
The key to writing for me is the tale – the actual story that I’m trying to express. The primary tool, of course, for doing this is outlining. If I didn’t outline my stories first I’m certain I’d wander off away from the point of the story and get lost. And if I get lost as the writer, it’s certain that I’d lose the reader as well.
What’s next?
I have several novels in the works, including the novelization of the story “Eyes of Echo” in my recently released book. The next work I expect to complete is almost half written now and it’s the story of an unusual birth of an unusual creature under unusual circumstances. So you probably get the point that it’s a rather unusual story. :)
I don’t want to give too much away, but the title of the work is “The Gilead” and I hope to have it ready for publication by the end of the year.
The mix of stories and poetry in “Silent Desperation” reflect pieces created off and on over a 15 year period. So while none of them were written to be part of a book like this, a friend suggested that putting together a collection of my favorites might be fun for my readers. So I set out to select stories and poems that had a common feel or theme. Oddly, the hardest part of the exercise was choosing the title for the collection. Originally I had wanted to title the collection for the story “The Forever Man”, but my editor insisted that the title should be that of “Silent Desperation”, as, in their opinion, that was the most powerful piece in the collection. So in the end, and as usual, I did as the Editor suggested.
What is my process for writing?
As I imagine is true for most authors of fiction, over the years I've enjoyed reading for pleasure. Recently I’ve been exploring epic stories that range between science fiction and more contemporary fiction, and I had been trying my hand at capturing some of my own ideas during that time.
In essence, many of the poems were written as a sort of conceptual shorthand – capturing an idea/emotion/impact that I wanted to convey in a longer story. In many cases, I never stopped with the poem, but just moved right on into the story. Most of the stories in “Silent Desperation” are of that variety. The poems included after the stories are mostly topics that I expect to write short stories or novels around in the future.
The key to writing for me is the tale – the actual story that I’m trying to express. The primary tool, of course, for doing this is outlining. If I didn’t outline my stories first I’m certain I’d wander off away from the point of the story and get lost. And if I get lost as the writer, it’s certain that I’d lose the reader as well.
What’s next?
I have several novels in the works, including the novelization of the story “Eyes of Echo” in my recently released book. The next work I expect to complete is almost half written now and it’s the story of an unusual birth of an unusual creature under unusual circumstances. So you probably get the point that it’s a rather unusual story. :)
I don’t want to give too much away, but the title of the work is “The Gilead” and I hope to have it ready for publication by the end of the year.
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