Hello! My name is Paul James Keyes, Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror author, and this is my newsletter.
I
write about being an author and give book recommendations from time to
time, but mostly, I just fill these newsletters with subjects that
interest me: Cutting Edge Science & Technology, Futurology, AI, Robotics, Psychology & Mind Hacking,
and much more across my vast range of fascinations. As both a fiction
& science writer, I’m constantly researching a lot of different
fields, and I’m quite good at explaining complicated concepts in
accessible ways.
With this first introduction, I’d like to tell
you a little bit about myself and share with you some personal insights
to give you a taste of the kind of messages you can look forward to
receiving from this newsletter in the future.
First off, who am
I? My name’s Paul; I’m 35; a father; a husband in an interracial
marriage to an amazing Native American woman; I’m a software developer; a
science & technology enthusiast/writer; a fantasy lover; I’m a
novelist with thousands of pages under my belt—that’s six books across
two series, so far!
I’m a free-thinker who believes that change
is necessary for a successful future. I believe there are answers to our
society’s problems—that vast change is required despite the difficulty
of implementation, rather than the stagnation and old ways of thinking
that are currently driving society. All of my views are based in logic,
science, and possibly most importantly: Empathy.
As a writer I am
constantly conceiving of, inhabiting, and then embodying the minds and
“souls” of my characters to deliver faithful reproductions of life to my
audience. With this comes the ability to see things from many different
perspectives.
I grew up well-traveled—and I know how fortunate I
am to have had such an upbringing. I attended the University of
Washington and obtained degrees in both creative writing and economics.
When there’s a problem, I like to dig deep to its root. I am a student
of human nature, inter-culturalism, philosophy and so much more as my
interests inevitably wander with my writing and research.
With this newsletter, I will share with you my musings on many topics.
The next few include:
- How I worked with a police psychologist for over a year to develop my characters
- The ‘Stoned Ape’ theory of the evolution of man
- A critical look at Avatar: The Way of Water
- A new cutting edge technology that can broadcast the “sound” of a drug straight into your brain
- A piece about how Artificial Intelligence may soon steal most of our jobs
For now, I’ll leave you with an original poem:
How Do We Know What We Know?
Not as individuals
Rather, a collective
Someone ate that cheese
That very first cheese
They didn’t know if they would die
I hope you never have to experience that
hunger
To risk it all for a bite
of unknown
Spoiled milk stored in a goat’s stomach
It turned hard and became storable
Someone took that bite
What was its smell?
Funk beyond funk in a cheeseless world
Now you sprinkle that crap on everything
But ponder this:
How many experiments did not end so cheesily?🧀
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57968/into-the-beyond-part-1-fated
