Author Bio
As a freelance writer, I can fit the bill you’re looking for, in the tone that suits what you have in mind, and what you would like to say.
I started writing seriously, with a purpose to become an author, in 2006. I self-published my first eBook later that year, which I look upon as an achievement simply for having finished the process of writing a book, regardless of whether that work is as polished as I now would like it to be.
My work, which is only published online and as Kindle ebooks, fits into the Metafiction genre. It encompasses multiple stories at www.etfiction.com as well as cross-referencing itself in its marketing pieces, which include press releases and interviews about the work; the result is an intertextual quality to my writing.
I am an ideas guy by nature, so my writing follows my natural instinct to take a simple concept and carry it forward to completion by building upon it until it becomes a mature and complex tree that rises tall and branches out from the simple seed of an idea.
REVIEWS FOR MY E-BOOKS and ONLINE SERIAL BOOKS
John Lazoo eBook – Genre: Emotional Techno Fiction
“This work is masterfully poetic. It reads much like a work of art, and leaves the reader to decipher the resulting impressions.
— Heather Froeschl, author, editor, and reviewer
GUIOPERA Online Serial – Genre: Emotional Techno Fiction
“…strangely satisfying, multiple-plot, intertextual tales containing some of the most original characters ever to see the page—the webpage….”
— Tyler R. Tichelaar, author of the award-winning Narrow Lives
WIPE eBook – Genre: Emotional Techno Fiction
“The characters become real, as if pulled from reality as in the plot. It is a wild ride based on a fantastical idea. Interesting and entertaining, stimulating, to say the least.”
— Heather Froeschl, author, editor, and reviewer
Illicit Blade of Grass eBook – Genre: Emotional Techno Fiction
“I am reminded of the clever games of James Joyce, the tone of Andre Gide in The Counterfeiters, and Nabokov’s blending of fiction and reality in Pale Fire.
— Tyler R. Tichelaar, author of the award-winning Narrow Lives
About Me
John Reyer Afamasaga was born September 5, 1965 in Wellington, New Zealand He is the eldest of four children born to Afamasaga to Western Samoan parents, Uainafou Malifa a nurse, and John McLean Afamasaga a motor body builder.
He refers to his childhood as “a strict Christian upbringing” with the first book he ever read being the Bible. He went on to attend Parkway College in Wainuiomata, Wellington, New Zealand.
Afamasaga has held numerous jobs including salesman, clerk, DJ, laborer, waiter, telemarketer, barman, delivery person, gardener, and cleaner. His first love, however, has been writing which led him to conceiving of etfiction in 2001, followed by his first of many novels, John Lazoo, in 2006, and the GUIOPERA concept in 2007.
Something Candid
It’s obvious I have a lot to say, and not all of it is amusing or enlightening, but something to say nonetheless.
I reckon it’s the point of view I have which makes what I have to say interesting or entertaining if we’re looking for a reason to listen to my crap.
A strict Christian up bringing in a Samoan family living in New Zealand in the 60s and 70s alerted my senses to all the things happening outside of my sheltered existence, heightening their appeal to me, so once I broke free of my parents, I indulged in all that was forbidden, enjoying their tastes with fervor from abstaining.
Promiscuity and excess when I had an abundance of something—few and far between times—were hallmarks of self-destructive behaviors, which I write about to color, and shade my characters.
But when it’s all said and done, it’s the obscure and dim view, with which I peeked at the outside world when I was young, that I call upon when I do what I love —Write.
Author Bio