World Beyond the Maelstrom Gate

by Christopher Moneymaker, Ellick Bottoms, Christopher Moneymaker (Illustrator)

Overview

Eight college students make a unique discovery . What they find thrusts them into a struggle between other worldly gods. The group finds themselves on a strange world filled with beauty and danger. Physically transformed into mythical beings by a powerful goddess, they agree to carry out the task she requests of them. The eight travelers face many challenges along the way that test their courage and teach them the dynamics of teamwork.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014476201
Publisher:	Christopher Moneymaker
Publication date:	04/28/2012
Series:	Outlanders , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Christopher Justin Moneymaker was born November 15th 1973 on a Coast Guard Base on Kodiak Island off the coast of Alaska.
In 1976, Chris and his family moved to Oliver Springs, Tennessee. His new home was the perfect location to seed and nurture his boundless imagination. The house had been in his mother’s family for four generations. It contained many antique treasures and a yard full of ancient trees.
The first ten years of Chris’s adult life he looked for a career that was fulfilling, but found nothing. He was a construction worker, a cable guy, and a restaurant manager but always longed for a way to make a living with his creativity. After September 11th, 2001, Chris joined the army and was involved in the invasion of Iraq.
In 2005, Chris enrolled at the International Academy of Design and Technology in Nashville. There he met his co-author Ellick Bottoms. Ellick invited Chris to help with a story he and a friend were working on. After several months Ellick’s friend dropped out of the writing process and took his part of the story with him. They decided to write a new story that would allow them to keep the parts they had already worked so hard on. Eventually that story evolved into their first book, “World Beyond the Maelstrom Gate”.
Chris now lives in Tennessee with his wife Jolene and his stepdaughter Atira. He works in construction and writes in his spare time.

Ellick L. Bottoms grew up in the 80's in Kentucky. Since then, he has traveled the world, living place to place. No matter where he traveled or how long he was gone, something always brought him back to the United States.

As he grew into a young man, Ellick pursued paths in the areas of art, the advanced sciences, higher mathematics, and technology, but later discovered that none of these fields allowed him to fully express his creativity or love for writing.

In 2005, he enrolled in IADT-Nashville (International Academy of Design and Technology). It was there he met his friend Chris, a brilliant man of limitless imagination. I told him about a story that a friend and I had been working on. His fascination about the project grew immensely and together they unleashed their boundless creativity upon a new version of the original book.

Ellick now lives in Kentucky and works in the technology field. In his spare time, he expands his entrepreneurial endeavors and collaborates with Chris on the book.

Editorial Reviews

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Alice D.

If you like books that take your mind on an imaginative journey, then this is the read for you! "World Beyond the Maelstrom Gate" is everything a fantasy novel should be!

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