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Charles J. Schneider

I grew up on books—lived them, breathed them, loved them. My most treasured memories of my childhood involve books—riding my bicycle to the bookstore in sixth grade to buy Dickens, London, Dumas, and Poe; sitting under my favorite tree in the summertime, from morning until night, reading Tolkien, Lewis, Asimov, and Heinlein; and lying awake at night, the bedside lamp on, enjoying just one more chapter….then two, then three…of Fowles, Barth, Conrad, and Verne. I didn’t just read them—I consumed them; and the places, adventures, and characters on each and every page gave me the rich experience that materialized into my early aspirations to be a writer.

I received an eclectic education with a focus on Literature, History and the Classics while studying at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts; followed by a well-rounded Liberal Arts experience at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. I discovered my love for Science during those years; and although I eventually pursued a medical degree rather than a writing career, I recall with nostalgia my passion for Literature and the Arts during my childhood, as well as in high school and college. At Andover, my favorite courses involved novels, poems and drama; and at Wesleyan, my electives were always literary. Shakespeare, Marlow, O’Neill, Williams, and Ibsen took the slots that were not occupied by Darwin, Watson, and Crick—and so, I graduated with a major in Biology and a minor in Literature.

I never took a course in creative writing; but the years of medical writing and publishing, along with a continued interest in reading fiction in my spare time, eventually evolved into…this. My life experiences, combined with my love of storytelling, have led to the creation of two published fantasy novels; and more on the way.

Available Titles:

	Islay—an island kingdom in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland—is the setting for this tightly plotted tale of passion, witchcraft, and thwarted vengeance that begins and ends in the highest room of Dunyvaig Castle’s tower. With Tower and Turrets, Crowned takes place during a six hour time span, in the dead of winter in 1143—and relies on recollections, flashbacks, and dreams to tell a story that actually began three years earlier.
	James Broussard, a Professor of Anthropology and Mythology at Yale, finds himself irresistibly drawn to Cytherea Sagapo, the author of an obscure treatise on the legend of Adonis and Aphrodite. The humble elementary school teacher, who lives in Paphos, Cyprus, reveals to James that she has written other manuscripts; and the curious professor decides to try and recruit her for the graduate program at his own university. As he learns more about the mysterious Cytherea through email correspondence, he imagines that she may in fact be his lifeï¿½s very own Aphrodite; and, with a single-minded romantic purpose, he plans a trip to visit her and meet Cytherea face to face. When he arrives, it seems clear that Cytherea is actually the real Aphroditeï¿½and that he, surprisingly, may be the reincarnation of her one and only true love, Adonis.
	What if God is not at all what people envision? Imagine a powerful energy portal that stretches from one end of the galaxy to another—created by, and with, the universe as the sustaining reservoir of life for Earth as well as a connected sister world where the ancient deities actually live and breath. What if Satan is actually a renegade thread of this interplanetary gateway; and the future of two worlds, and three dimensions, rests entirely on one single human being’s actions?