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WORK TITLE: Haven
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PSEUDONYM(S): Graboff, J. D.; Perldeiner, Josh
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Married, wife’s name Jocelyn.
EDUCATION:Emerson College, B.A., 2006; Boston College, M.A., 2010; University of Connecticut School of Law, J.D., 2017; has TESL certification.
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Archivist, educator, paralegal, and writer. Boston College, Boston, MA, digital archivist, 2009-11; NewKid Kindergarten, Nanchang, China, assistant head English teacher, 2010-11; Track180, head of editorial operations, 2012-13; Kumon, Milford, CT, plan master, 2013-14; New Haven Public School System, New Haven, CT, substitute teacher, 2013-14; Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, Northampton, MA, legal intern, 2015; Criminal Defense Clinic, University of Connecticut, Mansfield, certified legal intern, 2015; Division of Public Defender Services, University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, CT, certified legal intern, 2016; Law Offices of William J. Sweeney, Jr., law clerk, 2016–; American Civil Liberties Union, legal intern, 2017.
MEMBER:American Bar Association, American Trial Lawyers Association, Connecticut Bar Association, Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association.
WRITINGS
Has published short stories in the Libram Mysterium collections. Maintains a blog, the Signe of the Frothing Mug.
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J.D.G. Perldeiner was born Josh David Graboff in Hamden, Connecticut. He graduated from Cheshire Academy, in Cheshire, Connecticut, in 2003 and went to Emerson College, where he received a B.A. in film/cinema/video studies in 2006. He then attended Boston College, where he earned an M.A. in medieval studies in 2010. In 2017, he attained a J.D. at the University of Connecticut School of Law. He is proficient in Latin and has certification in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL).
Perldeiner has worked variously as digital archivist at Boston College; assistant head English teacher for NewKid Kindergarten, in Nanchang, China; head of editorial operations for Track180; plan master for Kumon of Milford, Connecticut; and substitute teacher for the New Haven Public School System. He has also served as a volunteer legal intern for the American Civil Liberties Union. In 2015 he took a position at the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office, in Northampton, Massachusetts, as a legal intern, moving on that same year to a job with the Criminal Defense Clinic, of the University of Connecticut, as certified legal intern. In 2016 he became a certified legal intern in the Division of Public Defender Services, of the University of Connecticut School of Law, and then a law clerk with the Law Offices of William J. Sweeney, Jr. He is a member of the American Bar Association and American Trial Lawyers Association.
In an interview posted at the Fantastical Librarian site, Perldeiner called himself a “medievalist-in-exile” who is “always dreaming of far away and nonexistent places.” In his medieval studies program at Boston College, he said, monks “tended to be the people through whose eyes I was able to see most of the Middle Ages.” Perldeiner’s first novel, Haven, is a postapocalyptic fantasy set in Connecticut some 200 years in the future. The monks of the abbey at Haven have devoted themselves to the preservation of knowledge after the destruction of civilization. The novice monk Tiberius sets out from the abbey with a small group in order to summon aid from a neighboring dukedom. It is the task of Tiberius to record the group’s progress. A reviewer in Publishers Weekly noted that Perldeiner “taps into the love of myth, history, and gadgetry” in a novel “in which the politics and intrigue of survival underlie a fantastically imaginative coming-of-age story.” Writing in Kirkus Reviews, a critic applauded this “retro-medieval” and “exciting” tale with its “creative anachronisms” and “Latin-influenced argot.”
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Publishers Weekly, July 4, 2016, review of Haven, p. 46.
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Fantastical Librarian, http://www.afantasticallibrarian.com/ (July 28, 2016), “Author Query–J.D.G. Perldeiner.”
Kirkus Reviews Online, https://www.kirkusreviews.com/ (May 25, 2016), review of Haven.
Signe of the Frothing Mug, http://frothingmug.blogspot.com/ (April 15, 2017), author home page.
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Josh Perldeiner was a medievalist, a historian, and a screenwriter. He is currently pursuing his Juris Doctorate at the University of Connecticut and divides his time between writing and representing clients in the criminal courts of that State. He has several published short stories in the Libram Mysterium collection, and is currently plotting out a sequel to Haven, as well as a series of short stories and novelettes that comprise an American look at the normally Euro-centric genre of fantasy that he has given the working title "Muskets and Magecraft."
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The University of Connecticut School of Law
The University of Connecticut School of Law
Degree Name Juris Doctor (J.D.) Field Of Study Criminal and Civil Trial Advocacy and Litigation
Dates attended or expected graduation 2014 – 2017
Boston College
Boston College
Degree Name M.A Field Of Study Medieval Studies
Dates attended or expected graduation 2008 – 2010
Emerson College
Emerson College
Degree Name Bachelor's degree Field Of Study Film/Cinema/Video Studies
Dates attended or expected graduation 2003 – 2006
Cheshire Academy
Cheshire Academy
Degree Name High School
Dates attended or expected graduation 1998 – 2003
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Company NameACLU
Dates volunteeredJan 2017 Volunteer duration1 mo
Cause Civil Rights and Social Action
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J.D.G. has 5 languages5
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Language nameEnglish, Old (ca.450-1100)
Limited working proficiency
Language nameFrench
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Language nameGerman
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Language nameItalian
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Language nameLatin
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organization nameAmerican Bar Association
organization nameAmerican Trial Lawyers Association
organization nameConnecticut Bar Association
organization nameConnecticut Trial Lawyers Association
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See publication Haven
publication titleHaven
publication descriptionThe great fires have gone out. The heavens are stalked by storm and darkness. The holdings of men are scattered, broken, disparate. The wilderness has reclaimed the land. This is the world in 198 Anno Cataclysmos, since the monks of Haven began their count. Now, in this dark and dying age, the survivors of the Burners and thrax turn upon each other. For the monks of Haven, the chiefest good is knowledge, and the written word. For the folk of Groton there can be nothing that gainsays their holy writ-including the sacred library that informs the Province of all things past. Tiber the Novice must go with the snide Brother Berengar to seek aid from the strange cousins of Haven, the lords of Sikorsky. Westward, they must travel, along the broken high roads of the ancient ones, over the icy waters of the Low Tonic, and into the foreboding halls of Sikorsky Castle. There can be no victory without the aid of the Duke, and even with it they will match sword and shield against ancient weapons. Meanwhile, the Dragon, long prophesied, stirs. Vera the machine-speaker travels with her scavenging tribesfolk toward Haven. The Province is poised on the brink of a new devastation.
publication descriptionPrepper Press
publication dateSep 3, 2016
Authors
J.D.G. Perldeiner
publication title"Le Dieu Perdu"
publication descriptionLibram Mysterium, Vol II.
publication dateAug 1, 2014
Authors
J.D.G. Perldeiner
See publication Heart of Darkness
publication titleHeart of Darkness
publication descriptionA module for AD&D2e or FG&G designed for a party of 4th-7th level PCs.
The secluded valley of Strathwait is far removed from every day life. There, nothing ever changes: an endless progression of seasons leaves its lonesome inhabits to their business. Yet the village of Culcomb, its only settlement, has a grim past that will soon come clawing its way to the surface—literally. Storms, monsters, adventurers, and the great deep ruin of Pinehall... explore them all in THE HEART OF DARKNESS!
publication descriptionSelf Published
publication dateNov 10, 2012
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J.D.G. Perldeiner
See publication "Journey to the Infinaat," and "The Sun is With Us"
publication title"Journey to the Infinaat," and "The Sun is With Us"
publication descriptionLibram Mysterium, Vol. I
Haven
Publishers Weekly. 263.27 (July 4, 2016): p46.
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Haven
J.D.G. Perldeiner. Prepper, $14.95 trade (314p) ISBN 978-1-939473-33-2
Perldeiner taps into the love of myth, history, and gadgetry with a post-cataclysmic tale in which the politics and intrigue of survival underlie a fantastically imaginative coming-of-age story. Tiberius is a young novice in service to the abbey at Haven, devoted to reason and the preservation of knowledge after the fall of 21st-century civilization. As the scribe for a small party of adventurers leaving from the abbey, it's Tiberius's role to document every step of the perilous journey and note for posterity the neighboring duke's response to Haven's plea for help in vanquishing the threat of a war with another nearby group. Traversing a land that appears to be what we know as the east coast of the U.S., the band crosses paths with a number of people who could either help or harm the cause. The unique patois of the different groups are, at times, difficult to comprehend, and the origins of this future world's customs aren't always clearly rooted in our present; the story contains a sense of wonder and adventure that wouldn't be out of place in a more traditional epic fantasy. Knights and monks cross paths with futuristic technology and mores while taking a frank, almost tongue-in-cheek look at the remains of modern culture. (Sept.)
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KIRKUS REVIEW
A future, medievalesque society in the remains of New England faces a new barbarism in this debut sci-fi novel.
Two centuries after a “Cataclysm” laid waste to humanity, the former Connecticut coast is now a patchwork of settlers and “scavs” (scavengers), subsisting and preying upon one other among the ruins and shattered technologies of ancestors now seen as demigods. Many of the region’s denizens cleave to religious sects that evolved from ill-remembered pre-Cataclysm ideas. “Greens” aren’t environmentalists, but degraded followers of a military commander named Kevin Green, whose (allegedly) transcribed words comprise their sacred text. The Greens rule the “Grotons”—heavily armed, weapons-obsessed invaders from the old nuclear submarine base, where one doomsday device may still be operational. Haven is a Catholic-style abbey, risen from a long-gone college community; its monks worship no gods, but they do venerate rare written knowledge (“Logos”) and protect it from periodic raids by “Burners,” who seek to destroy all written matter. The monks are under increasing attack by Groton fanatics, and they send out an emergency party to seek the aid of a powerful duke. It turns out that a vital “key” to some exceptionally dangerous technology has been stolen by a Gollum-like scav called Skrimshanks. Meanwhile, Jeremiah Ford, the rebel son of a religious zealot, carries heretical intel that could undermine the Kevin Green cult. Although Perldeiner’s novel is published by a small press specializing in post-apocalyptic fiction, his saga of retro-medieval violence and intrigue may appeal to a readership looking for more than mere body counts. It doesn’t lack for mayhem, but it also shows fealty to Walter M. Miller Jr.’s 1960 classic of a revived Dark Ages, A Canticle for Lebowitz. There are rather a lot of quests and MacGuffins in play that result in characters scurrying furtively about—until a third-act conflict of J.R.R. Tolkien-like proportions with a Tom Clancy-like twist. The author has also invented a Latin-influenced argot for many of the characters (with a helpful glossary upfront), but it doesn’t detract from the rousing yarn.
Creative anachronisms abound in this exciting tale of a post-apocalyptic future.
Publisher: Prepper Press
Program: Kirkus Indie
Review Posted Online: May 25th, 2016