Shawn Michel De Montaigne: 23 books

With the spectacular coastline, forests, meadows, and, of course, the mighty Rogue River of southwestern Oregon and northern California as backdrops, Shawn Michel de Montaigne offers this collection of essays, thoughts, and meditations. From praise and gratitude to protest and outrage, Montaigne pulls...

Do you remember your first love? Do you remember how it made you feel, how it changed everything for you? In this bitingly personal essay, Shawn Michel de Montaigne, author of the beloved epic fantasy Melody and the Pier to Forever, takes us back forty years to 1972 and his fourth-grade year...

Anurag de Bouchard is on a mission. He's waited half his lifetime for this moment. At last he can light the beacon that will spread the news across the whole of Aquanus: The Apprentice has come. All across the vast, dangerous waters of that ocean world, thousands of revolutionaries are...

The adventure begins ... Included in this download are the first three novels of Melody and the Pier to Forever: MELODY AND THE PIER TO FOREVER: BOOK ONE Melody Singleton is a bright 13-year-old girl who loves math, classical music, her mom, her best friend Yaeko, and her dog....

He's a thirty-fifth-century hippie named Random Chance. He lives in a spacegoing RV that looks like a sea turtle. He loves ancient rock n' roll music. He christened his ship The Pompatus of Love. The deep space between the planets of the solar system is his home. He's got friends, most...

I've written free-verse poetry off and on my entire life. In 2004, my partner shared a download of UltraFractal 3 with me, and since then I've regularly created fractals as well. I've got well over five hundred now; this volume features twenty-four of my favorites. Often while creating fractals I'm...

For too long I accepted the herd’s definition of perfection. For too long I ate quickly, and the food wasn’t real. For too long I ignored the call out my window. I was trying to be just like everyone else, after all.

Otoro Queril is feared by his fellow Tracluse. As an executioner for Necrolius Anaxagorius' Imperium, it's Otoro's job to kill those poor souls brought to his chopping block, and to do it as efficiently and quickly as possible. No one in the Imperium does it better. Otoro Queril does not tire....

What came first, the shadow or the leaf it falls upon, the sunlight or the pain? Painted yellow, what calls, and what echoes, and what cries through the valley; And what strains the surface of things when joy surges and the depths reach up, and the wet sand dries and blows unseen to the dune ... And what settles over my head, misty and mysterious, indivisibly fine ...

How to push on? I don’t really know. Like her, the world wishes me gone. There is so much work yet. I pound the keys with one hand, the other thrust up, middle finger extended. She reproves me, but I know deep down she feels the same way. I can feel it. Momentum and energy.

A world falls to war. A young man watches helplessly as his sister is eaten by a giant demon right before his eyes. He narrowly escapes death himself; buoyed by the current of a corpse-filled canal, he bears horrified witness to the complete destruction of his country, Theseus. The invaders...

The airplane Professor Ray Wilms was in just exploded. Somehow he survived the fireball and tons of burning metal as it blew away into the night air over San Diego, California. He has no idea how he's still conscious. He's strapped to his seat and hurtling straight for the Pacific Ocean thousands...

When he was a mortal, Ray Wilms had no time or patience for children. Despite being an educator, he couldn't stand them. As an angel of death, his very first assignment back to Earth is to save a sixteen-year-old girl from her family and church. Her name is Deanna, and she's thinking...

I can see the world each morning with fresh eyes. I can write—even if no one is reading. I can speak out—even if no one is listening. I can laugh—even though I feel like crying. I can cry—even though the rest of the world plods numbly along. I can thrust both middle fingers defiantly at the...