https://www.livinglegendseries.com/home daily 1.0 2023-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/38601dfe-b40f-43a8-97cd-79daf112540e/Hand+Written+on+Book_Brown-Background.png Home - A Quick Summary Armies rise and nations fall. Such is the way of a world that has never known true peace. Battles have been fought, territories have been claimed, and the maps have been redrawn before the ink could even dry. To many, there is one common enemy: the militaristic nation of Serdenia, which threatens to bring all people and countries under its dominion. A seemingly immortal God-among-men, known as the Conqueror, has been leading Serdenia on this campaign for thousands of years. Many have died fighting against the Conqueror’s armies, but none have sacrificed more than a hopelessly flawed man currently going by the name Dirk. Dirk has given his life countless times in the endless struggle against Serdenia. He’s led men into battle, started revolutions, and died in the most gruesome ways imaginable. However, he inexplicably returns from the dead each time. Dirk is constantly haunted by the choices he’s made and the innumerable defeats he’s suffered over the course of hundreds of years. He dreams of a time without war, but his faith in humanity, as well as in himself have drastically changed since he first began his treacherous crusade. Dirk’s mannerisms are unusual, and his efforts are sometimes left wanting, but he’s the best chance there is at preventing world domination. The only things stopping him are an undefeated and superior army, his inability to trust others, and his chronic drinking habit. He’s the man, the myth, and the Living Legend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/1651339538326-QQN2AIUNW1N6HPJDYQYZ/Living-Legend_Cover-Concept.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/1651340319945-WPBZ6V7RMTFFZQ2H6AFC/Complete+%26+Printed+Out+Book.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/3adfee2b-40bb-449a-91ea-05f53a350c5a/Cover+Art_Cropping.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/1651340275500-T1ME989X3V0D5SNG60NG/Initial%2BDrawing.jpg Home The original title logo aka my tattoo concept https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/f9ce4fc6-ee01-40b8-b434-53fda76bd829/Early+Concept+%28Postit%29.png Home First Cover Doodle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/8f523040-31fb-4ec0-be47-a9bc6bad54cb/Early+Concept.png Home First World Map Doodle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/1651427436279-MW5CFUJ9BH7NCMY8OCPU/Corvirr-Serdenia%2BMap.jpg Home Initial Big Sketch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/2ddc159d-aa76-4e08-8c6e-7355580b0eab/Full+Map.png Home Current WIP World Map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/ec9320ac-a759-4bdc-86e1-56da394522f8/Tattoo_zoomed+Out.jpg Home The brand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/1651427604010-67JFTY7EBDVZ9LVFNRR8/Page%2B101%2BDone.jpg Home Page 101 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/1651427655117-WPP69CE685B689DEBO1H/Page%2B202%2BDone.jpg Home Page 202 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/1651427696689-U5IDYM54CK3ZWG6XQ01F/Page%2B300%2BDone.jpg Home Page 300 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/1651427732194-H9Q2D44M5K28DZAGDH76/Up%2Bto%2BEpilogue.jpg Home Yet so far... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/1651427790904-ANJXQ14PUA84QN1JS59H/Writers%2BCabin.jpg Home Rented this cabin in the woods to work on the sequel, but I arrived and realized I forgot my laptop -_- https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/1651427754327-V6WU4RUK0RZEF3U8RE2Q/Daisy%2BWatching.jpg Home My editor hounding me to keep going https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/8ac3cedb-a956-4faa-9f47-22b0d8543a34/Cover+Art_by+Holly.jpeg Home Art by Holly :) https://www.livinglegendseries.com/about-author daily 0.75 2025-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/366ddcee-b995-4889-bb84-dce407a0aab1/IMG_0231.jpg About the Author - I began writing Living Legend as I graduated college with a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice and a concentration in Advertising. From the above, it’s clear I didn’t know what I wanted to do after school. There was a lot of pressure to start working, but I was at a mental crossroads. I spent my mornings applying for jobs and my afternoons writing my novel. Several months later I’d completed the first draft of Living Legend and started a full-time paid internship. The following year, I leveraged my internship to get a “real” job in media/advertising in NYC and my book was about 30 pages longer. Over the next 5-6 years I focused on my career, only periodically returning to editing. By 2021, I was finally ready to save the book with “FINAL” in the title. Then came the dreaded realization that writing the book was only half the battle. First, I contracted a Ukrainian artist to turn my doodle into the book’s cover. Next, I created this website to act as a homebase while I figured out how to publish the book. Finally, I discovered that self-publishing is actually much easier and less stressful than I imagined it would be. After reformatting for Amazon’s template, the book was submitted for their approval. The next day it was approved and the first physical copy was being printed to ship. When it finally arrived I was completely in shock. Reaching this point where I could hold a book and say that I wrote it had always been my dream. There was a moment or two that this actually frightened me. I no longer had the excuse that “It’s still a work in progress” or “That’ll be edited out.” This was it, the finished product. Reading it in it’s physical form was surreal. I think I smiled for two days straight as I read through it. Now Living Legend is finally available, and while there’s still so much to do, for now I just need to stop and reflect on how I got here. Then I’ll decide where I’m going next. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/bb044589-36ca-45bc-be2c-50d3acbaa4f6/IMG_8125.jpg About the Author - To answer literally, I’m a 30-something year old New York native/Austin transplant hoping to share my world with the rest of the world. This has been the case ever since I was a kid drawing comic strips and writing my own SpongeBob episodes for fun. Writing was easy back then - I’d draw stick figures named after my friends and write adventures for them to go on. Getting in my own head and writing down what came out felt like puzzle pieces fitting perfectly into place. Putting pen to paper was liberating, knowing that I had control and the responsibility to make the characters real and their stories purposeful. I’m very grateful for my mom, who would edit my spelling errors and print out the chicken-scratch I’d deliver to her. The stories would then be handed out at family parties in colored binders as I signed each one (and collected a few bucks). This passion never went away as I entered early adulthood. I wrote short stories, poems, songs, and even fake diaries from the POV of fictional characters. Everything was written by hand because I had to put extra thought into each word to avoid crossing things out. I started a few novels, but a new idea always seemed to trump the previous one. A lot of notebooks were left half empty (or half full depending on how you look at it). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/ec5fcbf5-6f3d-4659-8752-0bee39b589a6/About+Author_Age+8.jpg About the Author https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/e38f35e9-b354-49b1-84f4-256de9f21247/About+Author_Age+9.jpg About the Author https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626d5dfc5de33e122389d175/844823c8-9aaa-4d30-9e53-9e4661dbc455/About+Author_Age+9.5.jpg About the Author https://www.livinglegendseries.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-09-20 https://www.livinglegendseries.com/rsvp daily 0.75 2025-05-09