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During a summer trip to a family reunion in 2004, Luis A. Mendez's grandmother asked him why he didn't just write down the stories in his head. Shortly after that, in his final years in High School, he began writing fiction in his spare time. Life got in the way for over a decade afterwards; but at the turn of 2016, Luis finally began to publish short works of his through Kindle Direct Publishing via eBook. After a year and a half, he decided to self-publish them through Medium instead, releasing eight past and new short stories through there in late 2017, and a ninth through an anthology of flash fiction published by Lulu. In 2018, he had all those short stories professionally edited and re-published, followed by the release of three new short stories through self-publishing and the online publication The Creative Cafe. Luis' storytelling is told from a married Latino Millennial's non-materialist, yet cynically Libertarian world view with a heavy emphasis on fantastical and supernatural elements.
He is currently working on a series, a couple novels, a future release of novellas, various short stories, and history/psephology/commentary based non-fiction articles. When he's not busy with these, if he's not running The Projection Desk, or geeking out at Walt Disney World, he's enjoying his favorite books, TV shows, and movies; or rooting for the Buccaneers, the Rays, the Heat, the Lightning, and a good professional wrestling match. |