Eugene Weaver has been a lover of everything artistic and imaginative his whole life. In fact, it was his fascination with the Lord of the Rings Trilogy that prompted him to literally put pencil to paper as a 12-year-old. Inspired by Tolkien’s fanciful Middle Earth, a young Eugene wrote his first novel, Pivoron Mountain, in longhand cursive. Regarding this first story as a nod to The Hobbit, Eugene listed three titles that would be his own trilogy, then set the idea aside.

Flash forward a few decades and Eugene’s young sons found the forgotten manuscript in a box along with the proposed trilogy, Thunder Stone Realm, Survivors of the Realm, and Return to Thunder Stone. Their take on the project? “Dad, you’ve got to write this!”

With the release of his third novel, which completes the Thunder Stone Realm Trilogy, Eugene is thrilled that his sons’ same love of everything artistic and imaginative brought the Pivoron Mountain universe to life. He considers it a true collaboration with his boys, including his older son’s vision for many of the creatures that appear in the first book.

While the first book in the trilogy started as a story for his sons and can be considered PG-13 for some younger readers, the series has evolved to target an adult audience. The stories are fast-moving page-turners as the last humans in the realm race to save their world from an enemy bent on destroying the galaxies.

For fans of the Pivoron Mountain universe, look for Eugene’s fourth novel set for release in October, Battle for Quadrant 8304, a stand-alone story set in this same universe that explores cloning, an authoritarian government, and a deadly virus.

A self-described old movie buff, Eugene continues to pull ideas from the stories and settings he has discovered exploring the arts, new and old. His fifth book in production is a gothic horror story set in 1800s Romania and featuring vampires, werewolves and the like. His sixth novel will be a fast-paced traditional horror story in a more modern setting.

Eugene Weaver was born in Millersburg, Ohio, and now lives in North Canton, Ohio, with his wife, Joani, and sons Lucas and Hudson.