Ryan Umberger

Biography

The furious scratch of pen to paper. Few sounds are as pleasant to a writer's ear. The thoughts that compel this action—those ethereal words—ever pool about the mind, whispering, nudging, sometimes even shouting. The urge to write can be restrained for a time. The obligations of life, especially, are a convenient recourse for abeyance. Yet the words keep accumulating, growing, coalescing into paragraph after paragraph of dialogue and prose, straining at the capacities of memory. Finally, they must be released. Thus pours out a deluge of consciousness. Edicts of grammar are obliterated. Penmanship cast aside as flotsam. The once white paper is now stained in scribbles of ink, scribbles that will become tragedies, comedies, badinage, poetic meanderings. New worlds explored, old worlds made new. Thoughts to ponder and thoughts to scoff. But all of it, every single character and setting and conversation is now real, embossed upon the reader's mind.

Are the resulting stories worthy of an audience? An author rarely knows. Only this is certain. The words are again gathering.

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Books

Apsáalooke: Life of the Crow
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 133,140. Language: English. Originally Published: August 6, 2022 by Ryan Umberger. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Western, Fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Historical » General
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The Great Plains of the eighteenth century were a savagely beautiful place. The Crow tribe, small in number, fought valiantly to protect their land.
Once We Loved
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 90,010. Language: English. Originally Published: April 1, 2020 by Ryan Umberger. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Historical » 20th Century
It is a curious yet somber truth that the most passionate loves always have the most sorrowful endings. From Abelard and Héloïse to Dante and Beatrice, history will countenance no other outcome. Yet still we find people like Jean Luc and Charlotte, the protagonists of our upcoming tale, who deny fate and plunge into love’s adamantine bounds.
What Remains
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 108,620. Language: English. Published: April 1, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
The story of poverty is the story of women. When seventy percent of those living in extreme poverty are female, how could it be otherwise? It’s little wonder then that fourteen-year-old Asunta Josaphat, who was born and raised in a rural African village, who received no education, and who was treated as a burden, never once thought that her life would amount to anything but struggle and hardship.
Summer Vacation: No Internet, No Cell Phones, Huge Problem
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 31,140. Language: English. Originally Published: January 29, 2017 by Ryan Umberger. Categories: Fiction » Adventure
Few realities are as terrible to youth than no access to technology. Yet three kids are forced to endure this very tragedy when a construction mishap leaves their homes without internet or phone service. Worse yet, the school year just ended, and the necessary repairs to the neighborhood will take almost three months to complete. The entire summer!

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