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About Basil
Basil is a U.S. Navy veteran, retired federal employee, author, and creator whose life has been shaped by service, perseverance, and an enduring imagination.
His military career includes the distinction of serving as a member of the commissioning crew of the USS Kearsarge (LHD-3). As part of the ship’s original crew, Basil earned the proud designation of Plankowner—a title reserved for those who helped bring a new United States Navy vessel into active service.
His experience as part of a commissioning team continued beyond the Navy. Basil later served with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and was a member of the commissioning crew of FCI McDowell in West Virginia, helping establish the institution during its formative years. He served with the Bureau for five years before medically retiring from federal service.
Basil also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, with studies in Marketing and Management. Today, he brings the discipline of his military service, the experience of his federal career, and a lifelong love of storytelling together as a writer and creative world-builder.
His work explores dark fantasy, supernatural horror, mystery, adventure, and the complicated choices that define people when ordinary rules no longer apply. Through The Ghostwriter’s Collection, Basil is creating interconnected characters, legends, places, and forgotten stories—worlds where history, imagination, loss, humor, and the supernatural collide.
For Basil, storytelling isn’t simply about writing books.
It’s about building worlds worth getting lost in.
A look inside my mind
I’ve written and rewritten The Ghostwriter and Dead Souls so many times I’ve honestly lost count.
Every time I thought I’d finally gotten everything right, I’d go back, read through it again, and discover something else I wanted to change.
And even now, I still catch things that make me think, “You know, I wish I’d written that differently.”
But that’s something I’ve learned about being a writer. You’re always growing, always learning, and always finding ways to improve your storytelling.
At some point, though, you have to stop rewriting and let the story go. You have to allow other readers and writers to experience it, interpret it, and, in their own way, make it their own.
Because once a story leaves your hands, it becomes more than just words you’ve written. It becomes something different to every person who reads it.
They’ll imagine the characters differently. They’ll picture the places differently. They’ll connect with moments you might never have expected.
And I think that’s part of the beauty of storytelling.
You create the world, but the reader brings it to life.