Post by toeskater91 on Nov 5, 2006 17:49:26 GMT -5
This guy may not be that well known but I just got into a seris that he is currently writing and like him also.
Writer info
Jeff Stone lives in the Midwest with his wife and two children and practices the martial arts daily. He has worked as a photographer, an editor, a maintenance man, a technical writer, a ballroom dance instructor, a concert promoter, and a marketing director for companies that design schools, libraries, and skateboard parks. Like the Five Ancestors, Mr. Stone was adopted as an infant. He began searching for his birth mother when he was eighteen and found her fifteen years later. Tiger is his first novel.
The seris he is working on is called The Five Ancestors with Tiger being the first in the seris.
The story revolves around 5 students at a temple learning martial arts in ancient China. Each of the 5 learn a different style of kung fu and are named after such
Fu(means tiger in catonese)- Learns tiger style kung-fu
Malao(means monkey" ")-Learns monley " "
Seh(means snake" ")- Learns snake " "
Hok(Crane " ")- Learns crane " "
Long(Dragon " ")- Learns dragon " "
They all train under their Grandmaster and are about 12 years old when their temple is attacked by their ex-brother Ying(Eagle in Catonese) who harbored a grude at grandmaster saying he should have been a dragon instead of an eagle. Ying destroys the temple and the 5 students are able to escape and they seperate. The seris tells the rest but is still being written. # volumns are currently out, Tiger, Monkey, and Snake one would read them in that order. Each book takes the perspective of a different one of the students and from future titles in the seris it looks like Ying has a book and also Tonglong(praying mantis) who is a top soldier under Ying.
Sorry if I rambled on about this too much but I know some more about his works having read the 3 books he has out so far.
Writer info
Jeff Stone lives in the Midwest with his wife and two children and practices the martial arts daily. He has worked as a photographer, an editor, a maintenance man, a technical writer, a ballroom dance instructor, a concert promoter, and a marketing director for companies that design schools, libraries, and skateboard parks. Like the Five Ancestors, Mr. Stone was adopted as an infant. He began searching for his birth mother when he was eighteen and found her fifteen years later. Tiger is his first novel.
The seris he is working on is called The Five Ancestors with Tiger being the first in the seris.
The story revolves around 5 students at a temple learning martial arts in ancient China. Each of the 5 learn a different style of kung fu and are named after such
Fu(means tiger in catonese)- Learns tiger style kung-fu
Malao(means monkey" ")-Learns monley " "
Seh(means snake" ")- Learns snake " "
Hok(Crane " ")- Learns crane " "
Long(Dragon " ")- Learns dragon " "
They all train under their Grandmaster and are about 12 years old when their temple is attacked by their ex-brother Ying(Eagle in Catonese) who harbored a grude at grandmaster saying he should have been a dragon instead of an eagle. Ying destroys the temple and the 5 students are able to escape and they seperate. The seris tells the rest but is still being written. # volumns are currently out, Tiger, Monkey, and Snake one would read them in that order. Each book takes the perspective of a different one of the students and from future titles in the seris it looks like Ying has a book and also Tonglong(praying mantis) who is a top soldier under Ying.
Sorry if I rambled on about this too much but I know some more about his works having read the 3 books he has out so far.