If my writing aims to accomplish anything, it's to enhance the way in which we see and feel the world, the universe around us.
Joshua Dyer writes speculative fiction, westerns, and horror in both novel form and short stories. With these tales, he strives to push boundaries and create dangerous works that challenge our perceptions and notions. His stories have earned national and international recongnition in competitions, and have appeared in anthologies and journals.
As J. E. Dyer, he writes historical fiction, romance, and literary fiction works. With these stories, he looks to plumb the deepest reaches of the human spirit and remind his readers of what it means to truly live. His novels have won national awards and made the short list for Chanticleer's Van Goethe Award for best historical fiction novel.
ABOUT JOSHUA (J. E.) DYER Joshua Dyer was born and raised in Lost Creek, West Virginia. He attended West Virginia University, earning a B.F.A. in 1999 with an emphasis in world percussion. Dyer went on to earn a second B.S. degree in Recording Industries from Middle Tennessee State University in 2002. After a five-year stint in the music business in Nashville, Tennessee, he returned to his native home of West Virginia. Here he has re-invented himself as an author and novelist. Today, Dyer serves as a professional linguist where he's been for the last sixteen years. His constant interaction with and study of various languages and cultures suffues into the chatacters and worlds he creates.
When he's not reading or writing, Dyer enjoys playing board games with his wife and kids, yelling at his favorite sports teams (WVU and the Steelers), cooking, and sketching.
Enriching life one story at a time.
If my writing aims to accomplish anything, it's to enhance the way in which we see and feel the world, the universe around us.
Joshua Dyer writes speculative fiction, westerns, and horror in both novel form and short stories. With these tales, he strives to push boundaries and create dangerous works that challenge our perceptions and notions. His stories have earned national and international recongnition in...
The sun. Once the giver of light and life. Now, controlled by the Superiors and their Dyson sphere world of Euphoria. Humanity’s social dregs and violent undesireables remain relegated to their dying world, while their new masters live a harmonious existence in their engineered paradise. Euphoria’s attenuation fields control the light, dictating...
The Nomad wants peace from the darkness within himself he can’t control. That quest for a cure leads him back into the Land of the Five Suns to unearth an ancient weapon before it falls into the hands of a madman. The weapon may hold clues to a final solution. The Nomad’s path to victory lies in a young thief and rescuing the boy’s sister from...
No one wants to be fooled, but that’s what Frankenstein did to you all. Victor’s words were the mere ravings of a coward and madman. The truth is a fickle mistress.
I was the one that raided the graveyards and robbed the dead of their terrestrial remains. It was I who pursued your creation across continents when you hadn’t the spine to see to it...
