Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

Hi, my name is Peter Dudek. I have a broad range of interests and skills. I’m a software developer and community college teacher with a degree in mathematics and computer science. I was homeschooled my whole life before attending college (yes, for me it was a bit of an adjustment, but a good one). I loved baseball but stunk at it, now love basketball and am competent at it, and am training to run a marathon which I hope to excel at. I’ve taught Sunday school, ran a kid’s church for five years, served as a deacon, and cleaned horse stalls right out of college because I wasn’t sure exactly what I wanted to do with life. I was single and sad, single and happy, in love, and am now married to my wonderful wife Jodi. I’m looking forward to kids, not so much the lack of sleep, and am already dreading giving up my daughter at her wedding. And oh…I also dabble in writing.

My genre: Christian fantasy novels. I currently have two Christian fantasy novels fully written and am in the process of soliciting agents and publishers. I'm also publishing my books electronically on Amazon, a new endeavor through Carnation City Press that I may ultimately open to the public.

I’ve enjoyed writing for a long time. Back when I was seven, I wrote a fairy tale about five friends, a dinosaur, a truck, a car, a mouse and some other friend that I unfortunately can’t remember. They faced enemies such as giant monsters, tornadoes, and the like, all creatures created from the vivid imagination of a young boy.

As one can gather, when I was introduced to Tolkien and Lewis as an early teenager, I could hardly contain myself. All those hobbits, battles, rings, and the like was just what I needed to start formulating some of my own ideas for my Forsaken Kingdom Christian fantasy series.

To add to my list of ideas, I saw and experienced many fascinating events as a Christian young adult navigating his way into his twenties. Let’s just say, God really became real to me during that time. That’s when I decided I wanted to mesh some of my real life experiences into a fantasy story line. But even more than the monsters and battles (mine were spiritual, but I desired to write of them in the physical), I wanted my books to be character driven; that is, I wanted the heart-beat of my plots to be motivated by the various characters’ encounters with both evil, and God. In the end, my story became a tapestry strung together by the lives of various unique, fun, and often quirky characters all simply experiencing the reality of God’s kingdom.

So, please look through the rest of the site at your leisure! You can read more about my books, check out my blog posts, and look over some of the interesting links I’ve found pertaining to Christian fantasy books, God, and whatever else catches my eye.
God bless, and enjoy!

Work History

• Synergy Data Systems
• Software Developer
• Febuary 2006 to Present

• Develop/Program software for a major online recruiting system.

• Stark State College
• Adjunct Teacher
• August 2010 to Present

• Adjunct teacher for the department of Information Technology

• Carnation City Press
• Owner
• October 2008 to Present

• Owner of a Carnation City Press, a self-established publishing firm I'm currently using to publish my own works, both paper and electronic. Possibly opening up to the public in the near future.

Education

• Mount Union College
• Mathematics and Computer Science
• 2000 - 2004

• Graduated Summa Cum Laude