Alan Loewen: Author, Storyteller, Dreamer

The ramblings of a genre author.

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Retirement Draws Near!

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The day after Easter Sunday, I’ll begin a new chapter of life as I retire after 30 years serving as pastor of the Heidlersburg/Mount Olivet ...
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Saturday, February 7, 2026

New Release Upcoming

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  Keep your eyes open for a new release from yours truly. A blend of SF and detective noir. Target is a February 28th release.

Love in the Time of Chocolate

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Last night at my writers' group, we were given a prompt and ten minutes to respond. As February 14th is Valentine's Day, we were tol...
Friday, October 17, 2025

My Japanese Name (Morikawa Tomonobu)

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Fascinated by AI, I have been chatting with ChatGPT since its inception (Note: I do NOT use AI in any of my writing ... that's deception...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Doom, Gloom, and Drool

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Doom, Gloom, and Drool or Bram Stoker Never Wrote This by Alan Loewen ALL RIGHTS RESERVED “The sun is setting.” My friend intoned while stri...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

My Publishing History

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From 1990 to the present day, I have enjoyed having a number of stories published and republished in several magazines and anthologies. This...
Friday, July 4, 2025

My Inspiration For All My Writing

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My inspiration for all my writing  
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Alan Loewen
Gettysburg, PA, United States
Born in late 1954 in Easthampton, New York, Alan Loewen is the product of a long line of German Mennonite farmers on his father's side and a long line of Episcopalian whalers and fishermen on his mother's side. In his early years, Loewen became an avid reader, devouring fantasy and science fiction as fast as he could read. His favorite novels to this day will always be H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds along with Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth. Loewen knows that his writing did not originate in a vacuum and acknowledges he stands on the shoulders of giants who have inspired him over the years: C. S. Lewis, H. P. Lovecraft, Alan Garner, Robert Holdstock, and many others. Loewen also makes no bones about his writing: he writes solely to entertain, his first desire to be a storyteller. If the reader discovers some great universal truth in a Loewen-crafted tale, that's icing on the cake, but as Loewen has said, "I want my readers simply to enjoy themselves in a story of my own creation. If they feel their time has not been wasted and they liked the story, I have achieved my primary goal." Loewen's stories come from experience he has gathered over the years.
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