These influences may not always be done justice to in my own writing, but they are definitely owed a substantial debt. I have also included a few remarkable films. Rather than try to describe who I am through a series of historical events or by listing my accomplishments while concealing my failures, I thought I would name several writers/books that I can honestly say have changed my life in a material way. Listen to Clotho's Loom extended AUDIOBOOK sample read by the Author:

The common solution: a razing of egos, and the tempering of two spirits into alloy, alchemized by the common love of a child.

The narrative proceeds in an alternating chapter structure, paralleling Will’s masculine adventures with those of a woman enduring both professional and domestic perils. Meanwhile, his partner, pregnant and abandoned, must navigate the no-less-treacherous task of survival at a highly politicized law office, dominated by two temperamentally opposite bosses, and the glass ceiling they erect over her. He soon embarks on a quest for identity that leads him around the globe.

Assured by faceless authorities that there has been no mistake, and given a date to report, he falls in with political undesirables and succumbs to their attempt to recruit him. Will decides to keep his reactivation a secret, and deal with the claims from his dark past alone. But is this merely human error at work, a bad mix of circumstances-or tangling of the skein of Fate? In the tradition of Robert Ludlum's Bourne Identity and follow-up novels, this literary action-adventure tale tests whether one's present choices, and even ultimate destiny, need be determined by one's past.ĬLOTHO’S LOOM tracks the struggles of a husband and wife to reunite against forces arrayed to keep them apart. Already in a relationship made tenuous by the demands of dual professional careers and their own dearth of interpersonal experience, he and his wife are completely estranged by the blunder on the part of the government. William Wyrd, an introverted history professor at long remove from his youthful days as a marine sniper, is drafted to serve overseas in the U.S. CL has gone to the second round of the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, and has been awarded the IndiePENdents Seal of Good Writing.

Clotho's Loom by Shawn StJean