Jerald Kasimov

Author of AWAYNESS and the Altered State of Affairs series | Espionage, science fiction, and the unknown | Retired dentist | Ohio State Buckeye

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AWAYNESS is here.

What began as a story of espionage became a journey into the unknown. Now, with my third novel, the journey takes its most extraordinary turn yet—beyond science, beyond imagination, and perhaps beyond reality itself.

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Mossad Agent Avra went missing in Cyprus. Weeks later, she returns with an impossible story claiming she wasn't on Earth.

My 3rd book came out this week 🙏

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@KalFulsom The 3rd book in my trilogy just dropped this week. Blessed.
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You can’t make this stuff up. I’m now a published author of three books. A trilogy.

My trilogy has both a very straightforward literal meaning and a much richer symbolic or spiritual significance.

Literally, a trilogy is a group of three related works that form a larger whole, most commonly three novels, films, plays, or musical works. A trilogy, therefore, is essentially three stories that together become one larger story.

Spiritually and symbolically, the idea becomes more interesting because three has long represented completeness, transformation, and unity. Instead of simply one, two, three, the pattern can be understood as:

Beginning. Transformation. Completion.

The first establishes existence or identity. The second introduces conflict, separation, struggle, or change. The third resolves or transcends what came before, creating something that could not have existed without the first two.

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@Polymarket Mind bending.

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@NASA Reach for the Stars!

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The process of writing is unique to every author.

Like artists—with their special paints, paper, and brushes—writers use whatever makes them comfortable. Stephen King swears by #2 pencils.

Neil Gaiman loves his Waterman fountain pen—even changes the color every day.

Simone de Beauvoir was infatuated with the Schaefer Snorkel pen.

Me… like my hero, King, I am gone over the #2 pencil and legal pad, but you must have a commercial sharpener that keeps the point perfectly lethal.

Remember: the pen is mightier than the sword!

Pat Conroy and James Patterson recommended “The Elements of Style” as their holy grail reference. It has become my bible.

Do these tools make us better…? Maybe.

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Dawn is breaking; it’s a beautiful morn. The sky, a bright azure, the air crisp—allowing nature’s dew to rejuvenate the thirsty foliage and elicit the therapeutic jasmine aroma. How do I know that condensation increases as the dew point decreases? Well, after taking a John Carroll University physics class with Professor Sister Shelley, I became an expert on condensation, but that’s a whole other story.

The first lines from my novel, Altered State of Affairs. Available now on Kindle, Paperback, and Audio.

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Special Agents Steven and Avra, along with Cindy, the spiritual eyeless doll, are back! This time, they are at the heart of a secret sting operation meant to trick the infamous Iranian terrorist, Garf Zeman, into acquiring an augmented hard drive—intended to allow Israel to access and destroy Iran’s nuclear program.

Everything goes according to plan until it doesn’t.

Reach for the Stars, book two in the Altered State of Affairs series, is now available on Kindle Unlimited.

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ASofA on Amazon: https://t.co/UYUjCBJBaT

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Steven, a freshly-minted Army Ranger and aspiring badass, can’t wait to go after some bad guys—and maybe some bad girls, too. Fortunately, a Soviet master scientist has just defected and is hiding somewhere in the rugged French Pyrenees, and Steven must find him before a sadistic terrorist does.

Read Altered State of Affairs today! Available on Kindle Unlimited.

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When you’re a pantser, you experience the journey—with the characters, getting involved with their needs, fears, and desires.

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Is there a finite ending and a true beginning to the written word, or is it cyclical as in, “life has no beginning and has no ending.”

Is the book really ever finished? If it is, then why are there sequels? Is a collage complete, or should the artist add one more piece of paper?

As a published author, I can now say that artists and writers are alike; how many times can you edit a text or draw one more line in a work of art?

The real answer is when the creator looks in the mirror, and that person smiles back, winks and says, “ship that f#cker.”