This week’s member inducted into The Oucast’s Bloghouse is the man of mystery – Davide (Dave) Mana.
After his parents disappeared under an avalanche while exploring the Himalayas, Davide Mana was raised by the monks in a Tibetan monastery where he learned mentalism and the ancient superscience of Lemuria…
That would be cool, isn’t it?
Alas, that might also be fiction.
What isn’t fiction is that Italian born Dave grew up with a love for adventure, exploration and dinosaurs which is the reason why Dave pursued a science curriculum and ended up, after various (mis)adventures, with a BSc in Earth Sciences as a micropalaeontologist and much later with a PhD in Geology as a renewable energies expert.
As for writing, Dave started in high school, in the early ’80s due to a love of telling stories and as a means to impress a certain blonde who sat at the bottom of the class reading comics during history hours (sadly she wasn’t impressed).
Dave kept writing however and has had stories and gaming material published since the mid-90s. Dave is kept busy with two blogs, one in italian, strategie evolutive (no capitalization), and the English blog – Karavansara – a blog about adventure, the East, stories, the pulps and, occasionally, dinosaurs.
Dave writes mostly genre fiction – SF, fantasy, some horror, the occasional thriller and the lot often with a historical twist. Apart from self publishing, Daves stories have also been published in English by Acheron Books, by Pro Se Press, by Raven’s Head Press and by Sword & Sorcery magazine and by GGStudio.
The Corsair: Chasing the Mermaid
For Acheron Books Dave is currently the managing editor of the Zenobia line, publishing international imaginative fiction in Italian.
Oh and Dave also writes for the roleplaying games industry.
For his many accomplishments, over-the-top educational achievements and Indiana Jones sense of style, I dub Davide Mana, a member of the Outcast’s Bloghouse and Crusader of Knowledge and Pulp Fiction.
Jessica Bakkers 
Thank you for having me!
And I think I’ll put that bit about the crusader thing on my calling cards, should I ever print me calling cards.
Cheers!
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Welcome Dave! Glad to have you aboard 😊 … we’ve all got some pretty big shoes to fill now!
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This is a bloghouse in a tree – we can go barefoot.
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Bahahaha!
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Sounds like my kind of guy!
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Dave’s awesome! A real gentleman and some fantastic insights.
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Maybe I’m just a very good liar?
(wasn’t it Lawrence Block that called writing “telling lies for fun and profit”?)
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Welcome to the club Dave.
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Thank you!
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hi jessica i have been reading some of your posts i am just curious what is outcast’s blog house cause see i just started blogging from a week i wanna know what is it there in world of bloggers.
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Just a bit of fun really. You point me in the direction of your biography and I’ll write you up a little profile and introduce you to the community. Would you like to join?
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well i will love to but i am not sure that i quite as any qualified writer i just write poems for fun and for bio
my name is Ashutosh Jha
currently a student
writing to fight my depression and anxiety
dont have any degree in writing and haven’t written any book or something but ya i love writing
and also love be in community of writers cause yes i will love to get introduced to other writers.
i gave you all that i think define my writing if think that i am eligible i would love to be part it.
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That’s perfectly fine! You don’t need to be a writer to be in the Bloghouse, just be a cool person! I look forward to writing you up! 😊
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oh thanks i am really exicited to be a part of it
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