The Authors

Two friends, one world

It started late one night with a single image. By the time two colleagues were done, they had filled an eight-foot whiteboard — several times over.

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Raymond Beckham

Small business owner, Bay Area — between San Francisco and Sacramento — running an I.T. company with his wife Ellie. Father of three boys.

From an early age, storytelling had Raymond entranced — and once it had him, it wasn’t letting go. Dozens of partial stories, screenplays, and hundreds of poems later, he started writing what would become The Lost Sigil late one night with nothing but a single image as inspiration. A conversation with colleague Darius Cook turned that spark into a fire. They filled an eight-foot whiteboard several times over, made a pact, and never looked back.

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Darius Cook

IT consultant by trade in the Bay Area, with a lifelong pull toward the arts — writing, voice, and performance.

Darius came up through singing, acting, and the plays that gripped him in high school — then found his way to poetry, voice acting, and creative writing. After several projects he was hooked for good. When Raymond told him what he was working on, Darius said two words — "what if…" — and the story that became The Lost Sigil took a very different shape. Writing has always been his escape. Now it’s something more.

A Bit About Us

“Co-authoring is like banging two rocks together…

…then trying to make a new one from the rubble.”

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