Stephen Koppel

I'm 28 years old and I do work as an AutoCAD Draftsman by drawing up blueprints. I'm also a published Independent Author.

http://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Koppel/e/B0155TY4K2

I enjoy various sci-fi stories and I play video games. I love anime and manga. I'm also a big fan of Star Trek and Star Wars. My writing is heavily influenced by anime, manga, and various different video games like rpgs. If you like anime, manga, and gaming, I think we'll get along just fine. If you don't like them, that's okay too.

Originally, I wanted to become a mangaka, but my drawing skills aren't good enough. So I went onto focusing on the writing part by trying to better myself over time.

I've been writing things for over 10 years. I used to be a songwriter play guitar in my spare time [unfortunately, I haven't picked it up in quite some time]. The broad styles of music I prefer to play are rock and metal; that's also what I wrote, having close to 30 songs mostly within these styles [both with and without lyrics].

I started writing my first series, TIME: The Elemental Chronicles, in August of 2012. Before then, the story was in a constant state of mental debate and planning for several years. I had, what I thought was, a great story to tell, but I constantly couldn't get myself to write it, judging that 'it'd already been done before; so why bother...' Eventually, I decided to just start outlining and writing things down. You can check out its official Facebook page if you want:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/TIME-The-Elemental-Chronicles/434492990005567

I've three other stories in the works; two of which are just piles of notes.

Lately, I've been working on the first book in the next series, CrimSon Fissure. I'm hoping I can have it finished [including cover artwork] by the end of the year.