He then headed west to Los Angeles where he wrote and pitched scripts but fed and clothed himself as a 'jack-of-all-trades”: editor, assistant editor, location sound recordist, cinematographer, assistant director, production manager, producer, you name it. He whiled away his adolescent years and teens in cornfields, woods, rivers, ditches and haymows, climbing trees, running along barn beams, riding, wrestling, soccering, fighting BB gun wars, reading Stuart Little, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, everything Verne, London, Kipling, White, Lewis, Doyle, Burroughs, Poe, Howard, Fleming, Lovecraft, Tolkien, Zelazny, and generally ignoring school - though he somehow managed excellent grades (except in Algebra, of course).ĭyrk earned a BFA and masters degree in filmmaking at The Ohio State University, which lead to working in film production in Columbus, OH, where he crawled his way up from production assistant to grip then production manager and producer for commercials, industrial films and low budget features.

Market: Adult to New Adult (as opposed to Teen or YA, though savvy 16 or 17 year olds might survive without permanent damage).ĭyrk Ashton was born in Athens (Ohio, not Greece), on a chilly Halloween morning. Genre: Contemporary Fantasy / Urban Fantasy / Mythic Fiction. Hidden Fantasy Gems (Fantasy Book Review) Named one of the BEST FANTASY BOOKS of 2018 by Fantasy-Faction, Fantasy Book Critic, Booknest, The Fantasy Inn, Novel Notions, You and I Books, Superstar Drifter, The Weatherwax Report, and Ciaran Reviews.īest Self-Published Book of 2018 (Booknest Fantasy Awards)īest Independent Novel of 2018 Finalist (Reddit Fantasy)įavorite Reads of 2018 (Grimdark Fiction Readers and Writers) Along the way, Fi and Zeke discover they, too, have strengths of their own-though they come at a cost neither may wish to bear. On the run from an ancient evil and his army of terrors straight out of myths from around the world, Fi and Zeke aid Peter in his globe-trotting quest to seek out the remaining Firstborn, uncover the enemy’s plans, and gather the warriors of old for what may become the final battle in the world's oldest war.

Wrath of Gods is the second book in the completed Paternus Trilogy, and the follow-up to Dyrk Ashton’s critically acclaimed Paternus: Rise of Gods.

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