about me

Hi, my name is Peter Dudek. I’m glad you came to visit my profile! Now, here's a little about myself.

First off, I have a broad range of interests and skills. I’m a software developer and community college teacher with a degree in mathematics and computer science. I was homeschooled my whole life before attending college (yes, for me it was a bit of an adjustment, but a good one). I loved baseball but stunk at it, now love basketball and am competent at it, and am training to run a marathon which I hope to excel at. I’ve taught Sunday school, ran a kid’s church for five years, served as a deacon, and cleaned horse stalls right out of college because I wasn’t sure exactly what I wanted to do with life. I was single and sad, single and happy, in love, and am now married to my wonderful wife Jodi. I’m looking forward to kids, not so much the lack of sleep, and am already dreading giving up my daughter at her wedding. And oh…I also dabble in writing.

My primary genre—Christian fantasy novels. I currently have two Christian fantasy novels fully written and am in the process of soliciting agents and publishers.

I’ve enjoyed writing for a long time. Back when I was seven, I wrote a fairy tale about five friends, a dinosaur, a truck, a car, a mouse and some other friend that I unfortunately can’t remember. They faced enemies such as giant monsters, tornadoes, and the like, all creatures created from the vivid imagination of a young boy.

As one can gather, when I was introduced to Tolkien and Lewis as an early teenager, I could hardly contain myself. All those hobbits, battles, rings, and the like was just what I needed to start formulating some of my own ideas for my Forsaken Kingdom Christian fantasy series.

To add to my list of ideas, I saw and experienced many fascinating events as a Christian young adult navigating his way into his twenties. Let’s just say, God really became real to me during that time. That’s when I decided I wanted to mesh some of my real life experiences into a fantasy story line. But even more than the monsters and battles (mine were spiritual, but I desired to write of them in the physical), I wanted my books to be character driven; that is, I wanted the heart-beat of my plots to be motivated by the various characters’ encounters with both evil, and God. In the end, my story became a tapestry strung together by the lives of various unique, fun, and often quirky characters all simply experiencing the reality of God’s kingdom.

favourite books

Lord of the Rings
Narnia
The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks
When Heaven Weeps
Three
This Present Darkness

my websites

http://www.christian-fantasy.com