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                           Vol. 1                 Vol. 2                 Vol. 3                      Vols. 1 - 3 

                    Book #1                 Book #2                  Book #3                 Book #4

                        Book 1                 Book 2                Book 3                      Trilogy

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A Christmas Castle

Gabriel's Journey

Zero

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Hi. Thanks for taking time to check out my website. My last name is pronounced press-TOP-nick. I'm the author of Runaway Rocket to Planet 3G, the fourth of twelve planned books in the Griffin Ghostley adventure series for 10 to 13 year old readers. The other books are Search for the Silver Swamp Monster (Book #1), Prisoner of the Giant Boona Bird (Book #2) and The Snow Beast of Finnian Forest (Book #3).

My other works include Missing Tweets no. 4, The Question Lies on Varick Street and The Annual Glass Paperweight Migration, really fast reads that make up the 22-Minute Novel series. Each book contains 140 chapters, each no longer than 140 characters.

I also wrote Zero's Next-Door Neighbor: Imagining the Existence of the Smallest Number, the Largest Number, and the Superlative Number System, my first, and very brief, piece of published non-fiction.

In 2015 I published Nicholas Raven and the Wizards' Web, a 120 chapter epic fantasy for adults and older teens. I began planning and outlining this Lord of the Rings inspired novel in 1978 when I was fifteen, three years after first reading J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved classic, and wrote the first draft between 1999 and 2013.

I've also written The Endora Trilogy, a fantasy-adventure series for pre-teens and adults comprised of The Timedoor (Book 1), The Sword and the Crown (Book 2) and The Saving Light (Book 3). The first book had originally been published as The Visitors in Mrs. Halloway's Barn before the story was expanded into a trilogy and retitled The Timedoor.

My other books include the children's adventure Gabriel's Journey, a stand-alone novel enjoyed by young and old alike, as well as the novella A Christmas Castle which is geared for adults and older teens.

In the above photo taken on September 10, 1995, I'm standing next to a cairn on top of Mount Skylight in the Adirondack Mountains in New York State. To ensure good weather, hikers are supposed to carry a stone up the mountain and add it to the pile. The Adirondacks were the inspiration for the Dunn Hills, a wooded, mountainous region in the northwest corner of Laparia, the lands where Nicholas Raven and the Wizards' Web is set. Working on this book for nearly thirty-seven years felt, at times, like climbing a mountain.

For almost four and a half years I had posted monthly updates on this website detailing the writing and publishing of Nicholas Raven and the Wizards’ Web. In three of the posts I wrote about how the Adirondack Mountains influenced both the landscape and part of the plot in the story. Update #7 (October 27, 2011) details a few of my hikes, and Updates #20 & #22 (November 30, 2012 and January 26, 2013) describe how a July 1982 walk along Eighth Lake (one of the Fulton Chain Lakes in the western Adirondacks) inspired both a key character and setting in my novel. Thanks again for visiting, and I hope you enjoy my books!





The map of Laparia, the first of four maps in Nicholas Raven and the Wizards' Web. The Dunn Hills, a region in northwest Laparia, was inspired by the Adirondack Mountains in New York State.