Trowa D Cloud

My name is Trowa D. Cloud.

I am an adventurer, author, rock climber, and overall seeker of conquering the impossible. I was around 20 years old when I first moved to Japan with a only backpack of my belongings and the dream to see a different world. I lived in a village called Hirosaki for two years while studying the culture and teaching English to middle school students.

At the age of 23, not long after returning from Japan, I picked up my pen and began creating my first project, the Curseborn Saga with two of my best mates (Squall D. Ace | Simon Gatsu Sandoval) and my brother (Elnath D. Shanks).

At the time, I was trying to balance finishing up my degree in Japanese while teaching myself how to create and write. Despite my best attempts, I eventually dropped out of University, choosing to dedicate my heart and soul to writing. I decided to choose my own teachers in the form of my favorite authors, and looked for ways to sharpen my abilities through their published work. At 27, close to the end of finishing the first book, I went through an emotional heartbreak with the love of my life, and nearly abandoned the project.

With my life in shambles, I left the US on a one way flight to Paris, where I ended up going on the adventure of my life, backpacking through six countries including France, Italy, and the Netherlands. Upon taking the ferry from Italy to Barcelona, I decided to test the true limitations of myself and bicycled across Spain with only an old map I found on the streets to guide me. During my journey across Spain, my Camino de Santiago if you will, I met my brother in Pamplona, and together we ran with the bulls.

Hemingway had it right. There is something majestic about Pamplona and the people who live there, but that is another story altogether.

After Spain, I ended up selling the bicycle I had bought in Italy for 40 euro and hitch-hiking with four Australians to surf Biarritz and Hossegor in France.

It was a journey unlike anything else I had ever done, and somewhere along the way I realized that I couldn't abandon everything I had started. People lose sometimes. That doesn't make them weak. But what makes you strong is continuing despite that loss.

​Finding what I was looking for in myself, I returned to finish what I started, to get back the woman I loved, and to carve my name into the stars with the help of my friends, my family and the dreams that have guided me thus far on this wild ride.

PS: I am now the storyteller known as Bodhi J.M.S Ryder ~ All current publications under Trowa D. Cloud are discontinued, for now. However, the Curseborn Saga was remastered and republished as novels instead of novellas, under a new pen name, Bodhi J.M.S Ryder, along with the Four Lords. If you are looking to read The Curseborn Saga in its latest format, I recommend looking up No More Heroes: Being the First Part of the Curseborn Saga, and then, The Soldier Games: Being the Second Part of the Curseborn Saga. These books are the combined novellas I published as Trowa D. Cloud, remastered into bigger novels, and also have new chapters added that did not exist in the original novellas.

Cheers!