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The Author of Brookwater's Curse Volume I

About Me

MyGen Profile GeneratorMy name is Steven Van Patten. I'm the author of the aforementioned novel. The plot revolves around Christian Brookwater, an 1860s plantation slave who becomes a vampire and lives to see the modern era. Most of the book is the chronicle of the main character's life, but there is a subplot involving a powerful vampire that Christian is suspected of betraying and murdering. For more info, please visit the following link:

Brookwaters Curse

You are The Devil

Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession

The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition.

Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really "Satan" at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior and unbridled desires. This is a card about ambitions; it is also synonymous with temptation and addiction. On the flip side, however, the card can be a warning to someone who is too restrained, someone who never allows themselves to get passionate or messy or wild - or ambitious. This, too, is a form of enslavement. As a person, the Devil can stand for a man of money or erotic power, aggressive, controlling, or just persuasive. This is not to say a bad man, but certainly a powerful man who is hard to resist. The important thing is to remember that any chain is freely worn. In most cases, you are enslaved only because you allow it.

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My Interests

Outside of writing, I'm a pretty easy going Brooklynite! I can join you at a bar and talk, or I can whip your ass at pool. I love live music of almost any kind, but a good, diverse DJ is also hard to beat. I love a good movie. I get around on a '99 Yamaha V-Star 1100, when weather permits. I love chess, even though I've let my game fall off in recent years, since I no longer have anyone to play with. I'm a bit of a smartass, but if I'm really giving you a hard time, it's probably because I'm trying to help you. Of course, there is the slight chance that I'm ripping you because you really irritate me.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone interested in purchasing the novel can also look it up on AMAZON.COM, or Barnes & Noble.com or ask your local retailer to order it up. The ISBN .. is 1-4208-7160-9.Hey, while you're here...check out this animated clip produced by the very talented Jerry Craft.

Music:

With me, music is all about my MOOD! A bad mood and feelings of loneliness could mean Sade or some blues, ala Muddy Waters, BB King or John Lee Hooker. If I'm just happy and high on life it's time to pull out the Motown, as in the Four Tops, Stevie Wonder or Aretha Franklin. I lift weights to hip hop like Tupac, Fat Joe, 50, Ja Rule and TI and do cardio to electric guitar-driven stuff like The Rolling Stones, U2, Green Day, Deck Of Jack or Evanesence. I bust out the Public Enemy and RUN DMC when I'm hangin' with old friends. When I'm thinking about that which happens between a man and a woman, slow jams with Al Green, Luther Vandross, or Mary J. Blige, or reggae are on the menu. Hell, I even have a Bonnie Raitt CD laying around here somewhere. In other words, I listen to all kinds of 'ish'!Also, big shout to my girl Amanda Diva, doing what she can to bring back rap music that makes you think, instead of all this crime rhyme stuff!And speaking of guitar...give my man Reid Paley and my boys Deck of Jack a listen. They are down there somewhere in the 'Friend Zone!'

Movies:

Too many to list, but here's what comes to mind here and now. Jaws. Alien & Aliens. Predator. New Jack City. Various Star Wars movies. Various works of Akira Kurosawa. The Crow. Blacula. Anything with Christopher Lee as Dracula. Batman Begins. Casino. All of Me w/ Steve Martin & Lily Tomlin cause that was a funny ass flick, Bingo Long & The Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, Me, Myself and Irene, Claudine, Crash, anything starring Richard Pryor, Sin City. As I think of other stuff I'll add.

Television:

Lost and The Shield are my current Favs. Of course, nothing beats a good episode of Sanford and Son. Speaking of Old School: Quantum Leap, The Nightstalker, (the original), and Sliders.

Books:

Other than my own? Old School Stephen King; Salem's Lot, The Shining, Misery, etc. James Baldwin's, Go Tell It On The Mountain. Pryor Convictions, by, you guessed it, Richard Pryor. Anything by Frank Miller i.e. Batman The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City. Oh, and my man Willie Shakes, he wrote a few good plays.

Heroes:

My Mom.

My Blog

Well since some of you dont read bulletins and this is important, I figure Id post this here

Well, it had to happen sometime...I just got my first official hate letter folks! Does that make me Big Time? Should I be worried? Well, I don't know. You guys get back to me with what you think.First...
Posted by SVP on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:46:00 PST

So you want a blog? Please Read

If you came here looking for a blog, you're in the wrong place. My blog can be found at www.brookwaterscurse.com
Posted by SVP on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 06:41:00 PST