“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened..”
— Camus
Creative Writing, Editing & Brainstorming
Developmental and Structural Editing of
Manuscripts, Lyrics, and Essays
Recent Projects 2015-2026
Since 2015 I have consulted regularly with author Rich Shapero on the plot lines of his novels and on the psychological development of his characters. Shapero’s novels dare readers with giant metaphors, magnificent obsessions and potent ideas. His casts of idealistic lovers, laboring miners, and rebellious artists all rate ideas as paramount, more important than life itself. They traverse wild landscapes and visionary realms, imagining gods who in turn imagine them. Like the seekers themselves, readers grapple with revealing truths about human potential.
Rin, Tongue, and Dorner (2018)
Island Fruit Remedy (2020)
Balcony of Fog (2021)
Beneath Caaqi’s Wings (2022)
Hibiscus Mask (2024)
The Hornet’s Spell (2024)
These and other novels are available in hardcover and as multimedia ebooks on Shapero's website. The ebooks combine original music, visual art, animation, and video interviews. The original music (composed and performed by Rich and others) is also available separately on CDs and Vinyl. Shapero's 2004’s Wild Animus is also available as an audio book read by actor Peter Coyote
All of this work is available at no cost in the TooFar Media app that can be downloaded from the Apple App Store for iOS and from Google Play on Android.
https://richshapero.com