While pursuing a successful career as a New York- and then Los Angeles-based lawyer, David Armillei began a second career as a producer of female-driven documentary films. After these independent films won multiple awards (including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival), David decided to follow his own muse and simultaneously pursue yet another path--writer.
GROWING UP THE ANTICHRIST, his first book, is the result. This experimental, poetic memoir is a collection of 40 pieces that reflect his experience coming of age as a perennial outsider in Franklin, Tennessee, Charlottesville, Virginia, and Palo Alto, California. Driven by a complex, but enduring, hope and balancing a respect for and distaste of the past, the book goes beyo
J.L. Chancy was born in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, home of the Mothman. Her prompt export across the river to Meigs County, Ohio did little to separate her from the superstitions and legends that stalked the hills of her Appalachian home. So, it’s hard to say whether it was nature or nurture that made her a macabre, fantasy nerd from day one.
Fun Fact: She’s such a fantasy nerd that she joined a joust troupe and married a knight.
When J.L. isn’t writing, she indulges in her Skyrim obsession, reads fantasy of all kinds, and hangs out with her family, cats, and her horse.
J.L. currently lives in southwestern Ohio with her husband and son, but dreams of moving to Europe someday. Until then, she intends to travel to faraway lands, both real
