Gabriel Milano is always immersing himself in some story. Whether he is watching an engaging movie or reading a fantasy novel by Brandon Sanderson or J.R.R. Tolkien, Gabriel is constantly consuming some new tale, trying to find out what makes that story great. He has been asking such questions about stories (as well as about life), since college where he studied philosophy and theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He would later received a Master's degree in Theology in Marriage and Family at the John Paul II Institute in Washington, DC where Gabriel would come to more deeply understand the human person. Then in 2014 and 2015 he wrote articles and gave countless talks on virtue and human thriving.

Gabriel has spent many years now perfecting his world, as well as his his craft, to bring you his first chapter book in Aria's Adventures series called Gaining a Guardian.

He received most of his inspiration from many places, though undeniably the chief source is the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, specifically his book The Silmarillion, a detailed mythic history of Middle Earth. Certainly the whole of Yophea (Aria’s World) in countless ways is very different from Middle Earth; however, the one thing that certainly is similar to Middle Earth is the symbolic nature of the world itself.

If you have any questions about the author's writings, his extended lore, or his experience with the writing process itself (if you are a fellow writer), feel free to contact him at: author (AT) estelpublishing.com.

He owes much to the support and advice of other authors and he is always happy to help out a new author along the road.