The
Creator’s Eye: Mover of Fate, Part I
The
Creator’s Eye
Book
I
R.N.
Feldman
Genre: Science Fiction/ Fantasy
Date of Publication: November 26,
2014
ISBN: 978-1501083617
ASIN: B00O705KD6
Number of pages: 270
Word Count: 58,401
Cover Artist: R.N. Feldman and
Caroline Miller
Book Description:
On a hidden archipelago, people
known as Movers manipulate matter with their minds while strange Folds in space
transform the landscape into wondrous and often deadly anomalies.
When a young Mover named Michael
Edwards discovers that he is descended from a long line of beings who can not
only Move matter, but actually Create it, he finds himself at the center of a
cosmic struggle for power.
Manipulated by friends, family, and
an ominous prophecy, he allies himself with a host of strange creatures and
characters as he fights to become Mover of his own destiny.
About
the Author:
Mover of Fate is the first novel in
The Creator’s Eye series by author and artist R.N. Feldman. Feldman lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
where he teaches at Otis College of Art and Design and spends as much time
hiking through the local mountains as he can.
Art, metaphysics, useless scientific trivia, and extensive backpacking
treks throughout the world have all been major influences in his work.
Twitter: @RNFeldman
A WELL-KEPT SECRET
R.N. FELDMAN
Most people know me as an artist, so it came as a surprise
to all my friends, and even my own mother that I had written a sci-fi/fantasy novel. The Creator’s Eye has been nearly thirty
years in the making, and a very well kept secret from a guy who often stinks at
keeping his lips zipped.
The first inkling I had of this story began when I was
only six years old. I was playing Nintendo
games with my friends, but we wanted to make our own. We drew them out on paper and using a fair
bit of imagination, had each other play them.
However, when I went home, I kept thinking about them. In fact,
I wandered through the islands of Arimbol almost every night before I went to
sleep for the last thirty years. Of
course, the adventures of Michael and his companions were about as complex as
you might imagine they might be coming from a six year old’s He-Man addled
brain, but by the time I was twelve, all of the major plot points were
there. And I admit, that there are still
a few scenes inspired by movies I loved as a kid that survived into the final
draft. The black dogs in Chapter I
partly came from Willow. The scene in
Chapter III when Michael and Maya jump off the roof, well, I was rather taken
with Disney’s Robin Hood escaping the burning castle by leaping into the moat.
At twelve years old, I still envisioned The Creator’s
Eye as a video game. I wanted my
audience to be able to control and interact with my characters, and I had some
pretty advanced ideas for the era. Being
a pretty precocious kid and having a mom who was very supportive of my
creativity, I wound up having a meeting with a local video game company that
wanted to hear my ideas. Looking back on
it, they were probably using me for market research, but it made me storyboard out an early draft. It also made me realize that I wanted to be a
kid for a while longer.
It was in my twenties that I realized that I didn’t want it
to be a video game (although it still bares the fast-pace of one). It needed to be a book, and from there could
be transformed into anything else it fit.
By then, my old ideas about video games were no longer so ahead of their
time. I took a few stabs at writing it
as a novel, but they were awful. Just
terrible. Parakeets would protest the
lining of their pages with them. It
wasn’t until I read the Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi that I had an epiphany
that the book had to be written from multiple points of view.
I wish I could say that from there, the story simply flowed
out of me (and it did at many times), but I have learned from many years of
painting, that no matter how clearly I can picture something in my head, it
doesn’t always come out how I expected it.
Even though I have pictured Michael, Maya, Sefu, and the rest for
decades, I was often stymied when I put pen to paper. Some
parts I had to figure out, rewrite, and mull over for weeks. For instance, the emotional complexity and
motivations of my characters was something that developed as I wrote them. I often didn’t know what they would say about
a situation until they were confronted by it.
Completing Mover of Fate, the first book in The Creator’s
Eye series was one of the most thrilling moments in my life and I am so excited
to finally be able to share it with people.
I am hard at work editing Part II and plan to release it this Fall, and
there is much more to come.
