Location: Canada
Member Since:
Feb. 15, 2011
Paul Vitols
Biography
Paul Vitols ("Vee-tolls"--Latvian for "willow") was born in 1959 in Vancouver, Canada, to two refugees who met at an encyclopedia salesmen's Christmas dinner.
He showed an early obsession with letters and words, which manifested in, among other things, the defacing of some of his father's books. In school he turned to filmmaking, and competed in provincial and national student film festivals. Nonetheless, the career he imagined for himself was in space science. But by age 20 he realized that, for better or worse, he was a writer, and he dropped out of university.
Paul's love of film led him into script-writing, and in 1992 he, with writing partner Warren Easton, broke through with a children's TV series called "The Odyssey," about a comatose 11-year-old boy trapped in an alternative world run by children as a police state. The show, known for its edge and humor, received many international awards and was broadcast in more than 50 countries.
At the same time, Paul was also at work on a novel, a literary thriller called "Truth of the Python," in which a hypnotherapist inadvertently regresses a neurotic young client to a past life as the Greek philosopher Pythagoras. Paul, after some close calls in the world of print publishing, finally brought it out as an e-book in 2011.
His current project is The Age of Pisces, an epic of the birth of Christianity, which he is calling a "literary series"--the e-book equivalent of a TV series. Episode 1, "The Mission," is in development.
Along the way, Paul has also practiced journalism, copy writing, editing, and technical writing. Indeed, to keep writing and creating he has also begged and borrowed, but not stolen--yet.
He lives with his wife Kim in North Vancouver, British Columbia.
He showed an early obsession with letters and words, which manifested in, among other things, the defacing of some of his father's books. In school he turned to filmmaking, and competed in provincial and national student film festivals. Nonetheless, the career he imagined for himself was in space science. But by age 20 he realized that, for better or worse, he was a writer, and he dropped out of university.
Paul's love of film led him into script-writing, and in 1992 he, with writing partner Warren Easton, broke through with a children's TV series called "The Odyssey," about a comatose 11-year-old boy trapped in an alternative world run by children as a police state. The show, known for its edge and humor, received many international awards and was broadcast in more than 50 countries.
At the same time, Paul was also at work on a novel, a literary thriller called "Truth of the Python," in which a hypnotherapist inadvertently regresses a neurotic young client to a past life as the Greek philosopher Pythagoras. Paul, after some close calls in the world of print publishing, finally brought it out as an e-book in 2011.
His current project is The Age of Pisces, an epic of the birth of Christianity, which he is calling a "literary series"--the e-book equivalent of a TV series. Episode 1, "The Mission," is in development.
Along the way, Paul has also practiced journalism, copy writing, editing, and technical writing. Indeed, to keep writing and creating he has also begged and borrowed, but not stolen--yet.
He lives with his wife Kim in North Vancouver, British Columbia.
Where to find Paul Vitols online
Books
Lost Kings
by Paul Vitols
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 9,760.
Language:
English.
Published: July 18, 2018.
Categories:
Fiction » Coming of age, Fiction » Visionary & metaphysical
When it looks like twenty-year-old John Pulkis, traveling Italy in 1979, will have to cut short his world trip due to a shortage of funds, he is unexpectedly confronted with a spiritual crisis.
The Thought Dial
by Paul Vitols
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 8,200.
Language:
English.
Published: December 23, 2017.
Categories:
Fiction » Coming of age, Fiction » Literature » Literary
When sixteen-year-old John Pulkis loses the concert tickets that were to give him the courage he needs to ask Sue Nielsen for a date, he considers desperate remedies.
Loosely based on real-life events in Vancouver in 1975 and dedicated to the memory of an inspiring high-school teacher, The Thought Dial is a reminder that teenage life can be passionate—and the stakes can be high.
A Tourist Visa
by Paul Vitols
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 3,690.
Language:
Canadian English.
Published: April 5, 2017.
Categories:
Fiction » Biographical, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general
On a visit to his long-lost grandfather in Latvia, a young Canadian traveler, confronted with Soviet bureaucracy, glimpses the possibility of romance.
Truth of the Python
by Paul Vitols
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 100,970.
Language:
English.
Published: May 3, 2011.
Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
(3.75 from 4 reviews)
A hypnotherapist and his young client discover they have unfinished business with each other--from twenty-five centuries ago.
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