Tuesday, October 29, 2019

A Cool Baltimore Comic-Con Author: Joshua Rivoli's book Gods and Dust

Author Joshua Rivoli and his new book "Gods and the Dust"
Yesterday I shared my experiences and photos of great character costumes at this year's Baltimore
 Comic-Con . In today's blog I want to tell you about an author named Joshua Rivoli, whom I talked with and found the concept of his book fascinating (of course I bought one). 

THE BOOK:  Gods and the Dust: Greek Mythology as a
High Fantasy Epic  - The author described the book to me as putting all of the Greek myths together as one cohesive storyline. The myths were all written separately, and never had a common thread connecting them, until now!  As a fan of Greek Gods and Goddesses, I had to buy this!

MEET JOSHUA RIVOLI- Joshua Rivoli lives in Baltimore County, Maryland after moving from upstate New York in 2006. He has self-published one novel so far - Gods and the Dust: Greek Mythology as a High Fantasy Epic - and has written several other novels yet to be published. In addition to writing, he has a BFA from the State University of New York at Fredonia in illustration with a minor in philosophy.
Joshua and Rob



ABOUT THE BOOK: Greek mythology is stranger than you might think. This dramatic fantasy novel collects many stories from the ancient sources and strings them together as one fluid plot, fleshing out the sparse details for a modern audience. At the dawn of time, the Earth and Sky mated to populate the world. Their most powerful children are the gods and goddesses – living personifications of all things great and small, physical and conceptual. These powerful deities have human emotions that drive them through an interconnected string of relationships and misadventures, dispensing wrath and favor in equal measure, resulting in murders, love affairs, offspring, and wars.

Who I am

I'm a simple guy who enjoys the simple things in life, especially our dogs. I volunteer for dog rescues, enjoy exercising, blogging, politics, helping friends and neighbors, participating in ghost investigations, coffee, weather, superheroes, comic books, mystery novels, traveling, 70s and 80s music, classic country music,writing books on ghosts and spirits, cooking simply and keeping in shape. You'll find tidbits of all of these things on this blog and more. EMAIL me at Rgutro@gmail.com - Rob

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