New Book – Roswell: Book Of The Dead
Back To The Beginning…,
Over the next few weeks I’m going to start posting on Roswell: Book Of The Dead. Insights, inspirations, everything to give you, the reader, a better idea of what the book is about. It begins here.
The inspiration for my book, Roswell: Book Of The Dead, came to me en route to Roswell, New Mexico, in March 2021. Pandemic restrictions had finally been lifted, and my wife and I were eager to escape the confines of our home for an old-fashioned road trip. Due to work commitments, we only had one day available, so we had to choose our destination carefully. Naturally, Roswell was the logical choice.
For the record, I had wanted to write a book about Roswell for years, but I lacked a solid enough concept to develop into book form. I certainly didn’t want to produce something subpar just for the sake of it.
The road trip was exactly what we needed after being cooped up for the better part of 2020. The drive from Albuquerque to Roswell is spectacular—at least to me—cutting through the eastern and southeastern portions of the state.
Many people find it boring, but there’s a unique beauty to the landscape: small towns that echo remnants of the Old West, towering wind turbines scattered across the vast desert expanse, and terrain that is rugged, unforgiving, and even lonely to a certain extent.
As you approach Roswell from the west, a mountain range appears in the distance. I’d seen it countless times before, but on this particular trip, a thought suddenly struck me: What if there was a secret base out there somewhere?
In fact, let’s take it one step further — what if there was a closed city housing a notorious research facility hidden somewhere near those mountains? Truth be told, and it’s a humorous one, I have an active imagination, so this type of thought wasn’t unusual for me.
But the thing is, it stuck with me. All day. What if…
We followed our usual Roswell routine: driving through town, seeing the sights, taking photos, stopping at the International UFO Museum, and then heading past the Walker Funeral Home to the airport where the airplane graveyard is located (or was — I haven’t been back in a while). Standard tourist stuff.
The more I thought about it — both while we were in town and on our way home — that “what if?” question began to germinate and take root. I wrote five pages the following week and it just kept going, and getting bigger, week after week.
I wasn’t interested in crafting a traditional novel with conventional characters and a three act plot. Instead, I wanted to take you, the reader, on a comprehensive tour through everything.
Since the internet’s rise, the lore and mythology surrounding Area 51 and UFOs has grown exponentially, it’s huge, it’s expansive. I believe some of it might actually contain the truth, but that truth is buried beneath layers of misinformation, disinformation, and complete nonsense — which, admittedly, makes for great fiction and compelling reading.
That was my goal with this book: to create an extensive but engaging history and mythology (entirely fictional) of Roswell and the surrounding areas.
I wanted to deep-dive its occult roots, document the presence of military, government, and defense contractors in the region — from the Roswell crash era through the development and construction of the Duggar Test and Research Complex and the Center for Complete Annihilation, Casualty Statistics, and Battlefield Studies— and explore the strange phenomena with origins dating back to the time of Billy the Kid and his Regulators.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. There’s so much more I’ll cover in future posts regarding this hidden history, this mythology around Roswell and the surrounding region I’ve created. It’s huge.
In short, this is how Roswell: Book Of The Dead began. Here’s another tidbit: the original working title was The Roswellnomicon. In fact, I have an AOL email address you can send me email at – roswellnomicon@aol.com
In October of that same year, my wife and I traveled to my hometown in northern Illinois, which naturally included southern Wisconsin. I took her to a city (her first time) we both hope to retire to someday — Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
This visit planted the seed for my second book, Lake Dungeoneva, which I’ll discuss in future posts. That book not only expands on (some of) the characters and mythology from Roswell: Book Of The Dead but it does the same for Lake Geneva, and parts of Northern, IL and parts of Wisconsin.
I guarantee you won’t look at either Lake Geneva or Roswell the same way again after reading both books.
If you haven’t already, please check out my Facebook page for Lake Dungeoneva. I’m regularly updating it with new content I hope you’ll find interesting.
