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Gabriel A. Pino
Biography
Gabriel A. Pino was born and raised in New Jersey. After graduating from high school he moved to Georgia in 2008 where he has lived ever since. He received his B.A. in Modern Languages and Culture with a concentration in Spanish in 2011 and his M.S. in International Policy Management in 2013.
Gabriel doesn’t remember the moment it clicked for him that he wanted to be a writer. What he always knew however was that he loved to tell a story. Whether it was drawing one out when he was six because he didn’t know how to spell, acting in a school play, standing around his group of friends recounting the events of something that happened over the weekend, or as he would find out in his late teens, putting it all down on paper.
Pino is a lover of traveling and learning about different cultures and walks of life. He says it’s where he gets some of his biggest inspirations for what he writes and some of the biggest inspirations for the Totem Saga.
It was a story that came to him in a daydream back in 2011 of a young man holding a strange sword facing down an eight-legged ghoul on a rainy street. From that point on the world the character belonged to and the people in it became a passion project that four years later would result in Totem: Rise of the White Viper, the first of six installments.
Gabriel doesn’t remember the moment it clicked for him that he wanted to be a writer. What he always knew however was that he loved to tell a story. Whether it was drawing one out when he was six because he didn’t know how to spell, acting in a school play, standing around his group of friends recounting the events of something that happened over the weekend, or as he would find out in his late teens, putting it all down on paper.
Pino is a lover of traveling and learning about different cultures and walks of life. He says it’s where he gets some of his biggest inspirations for what he writes and some of the biggest inspirations for the Totem Saga.
It was a story that came to him in a daydream back in 2011 of a young man holding a strange sword facing down an eight-legged ghoul on a rainy street. From that point on the world the character belonged to and the people in it became a passion project that four years later would result in Totem: Rise of the White Viper, the first of six installments.
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Series
The Totem Saga
by Gabriel A. Pino
The Totem Saga is an urban fantasy series by Gabriel A. Pino set in the fictional campus of Kingslane University.
The story introduces Gwen Watson, a freshman at the school, who is pulled into the secret and nearly extinct world of shamanism by the hands of the powerful viceroy, Bright Santos. He is a shaman better known on the Astral Plane as the White Viper seeking to fight against the evil that seeks to destroy what little remains of the mighty legacy of a once powerful shaman monarchy.
Consisting of six parts, the Totem Saga follows Gwen and her friends as they reignite a war between angels, ghouls, and shamans while navigating through the uncertain years of college.
Books
TOTEM: Rise of the White Viper (The Totem Saga Book 1)
by Gabriel A. Pino
Series: The Totem Saga.
Price:
Free!
Words: 124,270.
Language:
English.
Published: August 2, 2015
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Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » Urban, Fiction » Adventure » Action
Gwen Watson is an eighteen-year-old girl starting her college life at the infamous Kingslane University. It is a school housing four shaman tribes living lives of fantasy, seeking power, and fighting to survive in a world where their kind is at the brink of extinction. Gwen finds herself pulled into the shaman world by the power animal within and takes on the title of the Golden Tigress.