Power of Perception writers with Victor Nieves

                My name is Victor Nieves. I’m 23 years old, and I live in Charles Town, West Virginia, right on the tip of the Eastern Panhandle.

 From a young age, I loved writing short stories and screenplays and my friends and I would play these overelaborate make-believe games when we were kids. That’s how my novel, Epitaph: Reveille would come to take form. I’d always wanted to find a way to communicate my ideas, my experiences with my friends, to others. So in my ninth grade year in high school I wrote the first paragraph of what would become Epitaph: Reveille. After high school,  I attended the Art Institute of Washington for a short time with the intent of pursuing a career in filmmaking, only to discover the stress of such a career was not for me.

So, I fell back on my writing. In 2011, my grandmother brought to my attention an article in the local newspaper about a local author, Lauren Carr, hosting a writer’s workshop here in Charles Town. I was intrigued, so I decided I would sign up.

It was so funny. I came in the first day with the first chapter of Reveille in my hands and quite nervously asked Lauren if she would be willing to take a look at my work. She kindly complied, and the next week when I went in to class, she told me she thought that the first chapter was written very well, and then asked if I had a complete manuscript. I told her I didn’t, that I’d had about half the entire novel written. She asked how long it would take to complete the manuscript, and I told her maybe a year or so. 

Epitaph: Reveille was released in September of 2014, and is just the first book in a military/science fiction trilogy. The next novel, Epitaph: Defiance, I hope to have released by this time next year!