Steve Loy's Goodie Box

Hello, fellow writers and artists! I'm happy to have discovered this place, thanks so much to the Indianapolis Writers Group. Who am I? Well, I'm newly-budded ambitious. I've written seven novels, but never had any published. A couple of almost got it situations, but almost doesn't fill the credits section of the query letter. For the last few years I've been practicing, building my craft. Now I'm actively seeking an agent and then, through them, a publisher for two of my more recent efforts. I seek information, camaraderie and tough critical analysis of my work, parts of which will find their ways onto these pages, and soon. If you'd like to be a help in that regard, that is, any of the above regards, by all means drop me a friend request. I'd like to say that I'm not weird, creepy or dangerous, but that's a matter of perspective. I will say I'm slow, so if I chase you, you'll probably get away.

Isis Wept is a fantasy novel centered on the living gods of Egypt, about 8000 years ago. It retells in dramatic form the tragic love story of Isis and Osiris, and the birth of the ancient kings. Osiris, the god of order and civilization, is betrayed and murdered by his chaotic brother Set, who steals Osiris's kingdom and Isis, his wife. Isis, the goddess of life, must escape captivity, search the world for her dead husband's body, then attempt to resurrect him, a task at the limit of her considerable power. Meantime, Set's act of fratricide unleashes a series of events that fractures the affinity between gods and men, pits immortal against immortal, and gives rise to the pharaohs who would thereafter rule Egypt. Or that's the idea. In the veins of Pauline Gedge and Sarah Isidore.

Last Days and Times postulates panic in 2012 as the world rushes toward apocalypse. Or so the gullible seem to believe. With fundamentalist Christians and magical thinkers of all stripes convinced the world will end in that year, a radio evangelist rises to prominence while promising salvation through him alone. Unknown to almost everyone, this prophet is a 2000-year-old Roman legate cursed by Christ himself to live and see the end times happen. Immortality has driven him mad, and he determines to force the apocalyptic prophesies of the Bible to fruition in a hope to end his tortured existence. Only one person can stop him, a disaffected Jewish girl with a hate-on for God, whom she blames for the handicap of her six-year-old autistic son. She's the last of a line of Jewish seers, a family gifted to see the work of God, no matter how beautiful, or how horrible. Urban fantasy, equal parts Tom Clancy and Stephen R. Donaldson.