The third main character in Unto Dust: A Mindfire Prequel is a woman named Angela. She's also the supervillain Malevolence. A tricky character to write, it also made this song an interesting challenge for the same reason. Angela developed extremely strong telepathic powers that initially traumatized her enough for her to disassociate and form a new personality to control the powers.

That personality called herself Malevolence and this song is from her perspective not long after she came to be. The tie-in to the story is that she is Steve Hamilton(Crusader)'s ex-girlfriend. And she becomes Leia Hamilton's biological mother. This song is Malevolence's favorite music style: 90s goth rock. I wrote the lyrics and made the music/vocals using Suno A.I.

Steve Hamilton (The Crusader) is trying to make sense of his 20-something life, trying to balance odd jobs, a girlfriend, and being one of the leaders of The AR-MEN superhero team. His perspective is a variation of Sue(The Cat)'s. Ironically in his view, being a superhero is easier to deal with than "normal" life. This song's events occur before the time travel takes place in Unto Dust: A Mindfire Prequel. Steve likes 80s rock music, so that's the style of this one. I wrote the lyrics and made the music with Suno A.I.

Unto Dust: A Mindfire Prequel starts with 19-year-old Sue Sanchez (the superheroine called The Cat) in 1992. This is before the time travel takes place. She is an up-and-coming model who is secretly a member of The AR-MEN superhero team (thus the double life through the need for a secret identity). I wrote the lyrics for this song based on events in the book (which is complete, just needs edits and that may take a bit) and made the 1990s pop music and vocals with Suno A.I.

I’m going to be sharing some music I made recently to accompany a novel I’ll be releasing at some point. The manuscript for Unto Dust: A Mindfire Prequel is complete, it just needs editing, a cover, and other preparations. It’s a Christian fiction superhero time travel novel. Here’s the book trailer to introduce it.

Writing update: I’ve recently updated Moon Tribe, a Christian fiction Science-Fantasy novel that is Book One in a duology. It started out as a short story idea then evolved into a full novel that allowed for a sequel. Originally, it took place in Joanna White's Republic Chronicles galaxy but she and I discussed it recently. Per her suggestion, I have adapted the duology to occur in my own fictional universe. This was an entirely amicable agreement and I appreciate her support and friendship in this endeavor.

The Moon Tribe manuscript is now complete and only needs editing. I don’t have a release date in mind yet but I have been working on Book Two for the last week. Yesterday, I reworked the book trailer for Moon Tribe with new graphics that reflect some of the changes. I hope you enjoy it!

Sometimes, you just gotta do things different. Back in 1992, I wrote a lot of tunes and a number of them ended up being instrumentals. This one is called "Half Past Midnight" and it originally had a kind of surf rock feel. But after I uploaded it to Suno A.I. and started making some remixes, I was inspired to see what it would sound like as an upbeat, groovy Reggae song. And that's the one that worked best. Enjoy!

I used to be a big fan of the Alan Parsons Project (I still am to a degree), so in 1992, I wrote an instrumental homage to them called "The Long Journey." I used keyboards, a drum machine, and a four-track recorder to make it (YouTube link to the original recording will be in the comments). I recently uploaded that recording to Suno A.I. and decided to try using orchestral instruments with it. And it turned out wow!

In 1988, I made lyrics for a song I called "In A Burning Cloud." I wrote the music on acoustic and electric guitar. The lyrics and mood of the song concerned the fears of nuclear war that were very prevalent at the time. I went into the studio with Tony Roberti and Leslie Steury and we recorded it. Tony played expert drums and had some spoken lines while Leslie lent some vocals. I played electric guitar, electric bass and sang on the original version (I'll put the link to it in the comments).

Recently, I uploaded the original version to Suno A.I. and decided to give it what I call "A Jazz Reimagining."

And let me say, you will never hear a prettier sounding song about nuclear war.  It turned out very smooth, give it a listen. Isn't it worth it for the thumbnail alone?

In 1988, the little band/recording project called The Edge of Slumber which I'd started with Tony Roberti had a third member, Leslie Steury. She wrote the lyrics for this song. In the original recording, Tony played drums and sang. I played electric guitar and electric bass guitar. I uploaded the original recording to Suno A.I. and remixed it.

I wrote the lyrics and music for this song in 1987 using a keyboard, its built-in drum machine (it was a Casio) and a four-track recorder. I performed and sang it on the original recording. It's a strange dystopian-sounding song. Maybe I was a little influenced by George Orwell's 1984 and didn't know it. Anyway, I recently uploaded the recording to Suno A.I. and this is the resulting remix.