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    To Wander Infinity
    To Wander Infinity
    To Wander Infinity
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    To Wander Infinity

    By Kyle Rowland

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    Something is wrong with the world.

    It's a sentiment shared by a great many, and one that has frequently risen to young Marc Daniels's thoughts over the course of his life, though he has never been able to pin down a single reason for his dissatisfaction. When a confusing and unexpected vision turns his life upside down, however, he finds far more to worry about than what might be wrong with Earth. An entirely different world exists beyond anything Marc has ever known, and that world has troubles of its own.

    Jiam Meruvian, a sorcerer from Gotrala, works to reunite the sister worlds, defying the planets' guardians and creating a bypass to slip past their protection. With such a bypass set in his own world, though, Gotrala is made vulnerable to worse things than a single mage's ambitions, and far more hands are in play than the sorcerer's alone. Marc Daniels isn't the only youth chosen to defend the two worlds, and there is far more for he and his friends to worry about than merely finding a way home.

    For reasons of his own, Jiam Meruvian intends to destroy Earth. The sorcerer's bypass has not gone unnoticed by darker forces. And a centuries-old prophecy implies that one world or the other will die not by Jiam's hand . . .

    But by Marc's.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKyle Rowland
    Release dateJan 2, 2014
    ISBN9781311255778
    To Wander Infinity
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    Kyle Rowland

    Ever the challenging topic, as my narcissism would have me write a novel-length autobiography, and my introversion would have me clam up entirely. Simply put, I am what you see: Author, composer, amateur artist, and creepy guy walking through the woods.I've been both writing and playing piano for almost as long as I can remember, though my pre-highschool endeavors on both fronts were admittedly - and forgivably, I hope - unrefined. It wasn't until the eleventh grade that I feel I began to grow into my skin as a fiction writer, and the story I started writing on a whim that year grew, over the course of more than a decade and several revisions, into my first full-length novel, To Wander Infinity.My career as a pianist and composer has in many ways paralleled my pursuits as an author. Many of my original songs were either inspired by or inspiration for events in To Wander Infinity, some scenes solidifying in my imagination while performing at the piano while several songs' melodies originated while proofreading particularly compelling parts of the story. For me, music and storytelling have always gone hand in hand.Outside of the workplace, I consider myself something of a shut-in, my favorite hobbies oftentimes limited to those that keep me in the comfort of my own home. I'm an avid gamer, having always felt that there is no better medium for storytelling than a virtual platform that lets the audience participate in the story, and for similar reasons find myself visiting the local movie theater with my father on a nearly weekly basis. With that said, nature has always had a knack for drawing me out of my shell, and out of my house. Few things can inspire the imagination like a hike or bike ride through a deep forest, or across a soaring mountain ridge.

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