My nineteenth book — The Flame of Truth: Lights in Darkness

I conceived the initial idea for this story 10 years ago. I had a draft with the plot, its characters, and world elements. I used many of them for the writing.

This book represents a milestone in my writer’s journey because it is full of new features.

The first one is the genre. This book is a religious dystopia. For those who are not familiar with this term, dystopia is a story that depicts a world where there is extreme oppression, suffering, injustice, and violence; usually under an authoritarian political regime.

The story takes place in the 22nd century in Brazil, with a reality very far from the present (I hope this reality never comes true).

Another new feature is the inclusion of illustrations. Using the Playground AI tool, I’ve created scenes and characters. I suppose this will make the story more engaging and vivid.

I wrote using Bing AI as an assistant for grammar correction and consultation. Microsoft’s tool helped me to choose more common words and expressions that improve the text/reading flow.

This was the book that took me the longest time to finish, about 7 months from the start of writing to the final punctuation.

I changed my English accent in this book; I switched from British English to American English. I don’t even know why I’ve used a British accent before.

And finally, this book has significant changes in dialogue. Previously, I used : (colon) in the book’s dialogues—wrong for English writing— and now, I’m using “,” (comma). Besides that, I reduced the use of these marks in the text, I studied other books and noticed that the excessive use of them makes the reading slow, like a theatrical play.

I hope you enjoy this new work and its improvements.

Release date: Aug 4th, 2023

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My ninth book - Behaviours

Finally, we arrived at my last published book (so far), Behaviours. This book has a different proposal from the others. It's my first short storybook. Until now, I have written poems and novels. But now, I tried a new thing.

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In the beginning, it was hard to write short stories (Why? Aren't you a writer?). Short stories are a different world. The things need to be quick and brief. I couldn't write a long story.

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However, I couldn't write a very short story, without details, emotions, and everything else.

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I had to find a balance between long and short, between quick and slow. After the first pages, I got.

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The book has five stories:

The life of my dreams - Two young homeless boys suddenly get everything they dreamed for their lives.

The judgment of humanity - The people of the Earth are judged because of what everyone does.

Two lives - Two pregnant women face different sides of the pregnancy. One of them dreamed about that moment. But to the other, everything is a nightmare.

Limitless - A boy had no limits in his actions, and that led him to a terrible path.

No support - A very smart girl at school has no support from her parents. Only his friends support and admire her.

I tried to write about things that could happen to everyone. And everything is related to human behaviors in these situations.

The book was published on: October 28th, 2021

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My sixth book - Diverse Poems Volume II

This book is a collection of poems from different moments of my life. One part of them is from the beginning of my writing career, between 2011 and 2015. Another part is from 2020.

The subjects of the poems are very diverse. I wrote about relationships, people's attitudes, news, and romance (I love you, Ana Carolina, my princess).

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The poems from 2020 were strongly influenced by the moment, COVID-19 pandemic.

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I wrote about the worst consequence of the pandemic, deaths. The poems Ten Thousand People and One Hundred Twenty Thousand tell about days when Brazil reached these terrible numbers. (Until today, February 20th, 2025, more than 715,000 have already died).

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Besides that, I wrote about animal abandonment (Best friend), politics (The man of the division, Promises for life), and other subjects.

The book was published on April 23rd, 2021, in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

Update April 04th, 2022

Continuing my revision to publish on other platforms, I updated this book. I removed some poems from the book. I made it because I understood these poems were not according to the book's purpose.

Read all poems in the book:

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