Raji Dorotez

The Pirate King of Trelag Szuu: Volume Three of the Mid-sea Chronicles Raji Dorotez

Publisher Marketing: This is the third and final volume of the First Trilogy of the Mid-Sea Chronicles. Tiranu Shupari, the Priest/Magician first introduced in Volume One, has just arrived in the Pirate Kingdom and there meets the Pirate King who is going to help restore him to the City-of-Gold and liberate his father, the King-of-Kings who has been turned into a powerless puppet by the Sun Fathers, who have allied themselves with the True Believers, religious fanatics, who control the area just south of the Pirate King. He discovers a social revolution going on in the Pirate's realm that he is at first impressed by, but as the months pass, he begins to see the dissent that the Pirate King didn't want him to see. And all the hidden things the Pirate didn't want him to find out about. Like in the other books in this series, there is magic and mystery, Immortals and Gods, and demons and monsters, and believable characters that could just as well live next door. It is a multi-cultural, multi-racial society stratified into castes that are breaking down, and adhering to a Divine Code that doesn't work any more. Everyone wants a change, but as many want to go forward as want to go back. The battle that the book leads up to will determine in which direction the Mid-Sea will go, and those who live and those who die surprised the author as much as it will the reader. Contributor Bio:  Dorotez, Raji Raji Dorotez, born in Virginia in 1947, was an Army brat from the moment of his birth. He spent most of his youth overseas in Europe, the Orient, and Hawaii shortly after it became a state. When he returned to the Mainland for the final time he was 17 and it felt like he was coming to an unknown country. His country moved to the Deep South just in time for the Civil Rights Movement, which affected him greatly. He spent one year at a Southern college before giving academia up to flee to the North where he got swept up in the Youth Movement of the 60s. He came to California in 1969 and has made it his home since. He is a long-time Gay and Pagan activist, but everything he writes is not Gay. He is the author of THE SCARLET WAND, Sex Magic For Gay Males; THE SCARLET PENTAGRAM, Rituals For Gay Males; the novel SPIRIT-WALK, about a shaman on another world who goes on a "spirit-walk" and visits this world five centuries from now and learns tolerance and understanding from his journey; and the BULLDOG series, about a biker who is killed by his old lady, but is too full of life to die and comes back as a ghost, wanting all the things he wanted when he was still alive. One is published now, but there will be at least eight in the series. This series, unlike his other books, is not for the faint of heart. Sex scenes are described graphically in the early books, but in the later ones, Bulldog begins to transcend and the books become more spiritual. Dorotez has created a web site for his books: www.rajidorotezpress.com. Check it out for free sample stories, new books he's writing, and old books he's digging out of boxes that he forgot about which he's willing to sell. Many of his earlier books, for example, THE SCARLET PENTAGRAM and RENEWAL CEREMONY are selling on-line by their current owners for much more than he originally sold them for. Enthusiastic fans have posted some of his earlier stuff on-line for free. As he was out of the loop for fifteen years while he lived off-the-grid on a remote hill in the Sierra Foothills, with no electricity, internet, nor flush toilet, many fans thought he was dead. But he isn't. He's very much alive and tells people he wasn't inactive during those fifteen years. He was writing story after story, novel after novel, and tucking them aside and going on with the next. Having discovered the internet, he is now busily editing and publishing all those things he wrote during his hermitage, and finding that they spurn more.