RUSTIN PETRAE   AUTHOR | GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Cancer feels like a sort of never-ending presence in my life now. It hangs like a shadow over almost everything but not necessarily to a degree that it impacts my life. I just recognize it now. I acknowledge it. Before, it was something far away. A thing that I knew of but not a thing that directly interfered with me or with what I want to do with my life. There are still certain times when I get hit with side-effects of the radiation (despite it being a good four-to-five mon

Enjoy another free chapter to my newest novel, Avalon: The Fallen King! Please help spread the word by sharing, liking, and commenting. It would be enormously helpful to me. Thank you. ***** Chapter Two - Twelve minutes into the match and Theo still had his first sprite but it was on its last leg. Therresa lost her basilisk, as well as her next one, an elephant. She was currently on a rhinoceros. It rampaged across the arena, glistening with a bright, chrome sheen. His finger

Welcome all to my newest world, the Kingdom of Avalon. Set 1,000 years in the future, it features 12 great lands with the floating kingdom of Avalon being one of the most powerful. It is run by the High Royals, a powerful family of mages named the Pantheons. When one of them, the High King no less, is found murdered, it sets off a series of events that could either save everyone, or doom the planet. Hope you all enjoy. I will be releasing some of the chapters here on my blog

One of the biggest reasons why I am doing this series is awareness. You might say you know about something but trust me, you don't unless you lived through it. I lived through it and want to share my knowledge with others in an effort to help. For me, I let my symptoms go unchecked for 2+ years because I just didn't know enough. Like I mentioned in volume 1, I thought it was pretty much EVERYTHING else BUT cancer. If you read this and you have persistent symptoms that don't s

I decided to start a new segment on my blog. I call it Another Face in the Crowd because to the larger world, that's really what I am. I'm an average guy. Just another face in a crowd of billions who is pursuing all the ambition and dreams my little heart can come up with. Currently that is being as great a father as I can be, excelling at my current position with a fantastic non-profit organization that helps children, and, of course, becoming a bestselling author. The bests

Over the past couple of years, I've been able to write a few short stories. I've decided to collect them into one new book titled, SINS....

The Histories of Purga Novels comes to a close with the final installment, Chaos. This has been a series over a decade in the making and...

At long last, the conclusion to Kendra and the Bane Pack's story is here. I want to personally thank everyone who reached out and...

Proelia's Beginnings - Proelia started as a sport/game inside the world of Avalon, a novel series I am in the process of writing. Since...

For the last couple of months, I have been working really hard on my senior project for my upcoming graduation from The Ohio State...

For my senior exhibit project, I decided to bring a game/sport I created for a novel series I am writing called Avalon into the world as...

In this week's tutorials, we were dealing with several different components like the 4 segment display, humidity/temperature sensors,...

In this tutorial, our class was working on programming motors. There was supposed to be another series of videos with a DC motor and a DC...

I am working hard on getting Blood Ties: The Third finished and I know a lot of people have been asking me when it will be coming out....

This is the concept for my final project in New Media. It is an enclosed box system with five icons on top that if the button is pressed,...

For this assignment, I had to complete an Arduino tutorial for a light being turned on by a button and then adjusted through a...

For this assignment, I had to complete an Arduino tutorial for a blinking light and then an array of blinking lights. Then I had to alter...

New Media - Project Concepts Idea 1 - This idea features several bars that are outfitted with LCD lights. With this idea, I will program...