About the Author

How it all began—Nature’s inspirations

The vision began here—kayaking Kingdom Lake, British Columbia, Canada—the moment I understood what had always been there: a jagged rock rising from the water like an ancient Sphinx, and I named it Maalik, Chief of the Dark Angels. Its malformed bite, grim malocclusion, seeping pus and blood—legs sinking into the depths—hulking, primeval, watching. The rock loomed, its jagged snout jutting into the water, rough yet unmistakable: a prehistoric sentinel, a beast carved from the bones of the world, etched into the Cascade Mountains along the Pacific Ring of Fire. From there, The Lost World of Mythoamphibia was born.

Kingdom Lake, British Columbia, Canada
Maalik, Chief of the Dark Angels
Zimeon doing shoulder lifts, weight-training day
Crown Hyla—public character embodiment, Toronto
When the page can no longer hold the world—it moves to screen.

Michael J. Meraw (Major, Retired), CD, SCPM (Stanford), BComm, AGDM, MBA is an author whose work delves into the dark intersection of environmental collapse, existential reckoning, and humanity’s unrelenting impact on the planet and on the vulnerable lives caught inside its systems of power. As a former military pilot and corporate aerospace leader, he brings a hard-won perspective on survival, control, and power dynamics that shapes his exploration of humanity’s tenuous hold on the natural world.

He channels these experiences into narratives that challenge the myth of human dominance. His stories trace what happens when the earth stops forgiving us—when rivers remember, forests reclaim, species speak back, and when human-made systems like cartel camps become closed ecosystems of inherited violence.

As a foreigner now living in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, he writes from inside the region that shapes Cartel Babies and the everyday lives lived in its shadow. This gives him a ground-level view of Mexico’s “third face” of cartel power—the quiet majority who navigate fear, loyalty, and survival while trying to protect their families inside a system they did not choose.

All of Meraw’s fiction unfolds within the interconnected EᴠØ-Myth Universe™, a transmedia world of games, films, and novels where conscience evolves, creation keeps score, and every species bears the cost of what only one species created.

Crown Hyla, Matriarch of the Columbia spotted frogs
Toadstone ring
Purchased: Rare amuletic toadstone ring, set in a “Van Dyke” bezel, late Georgian-era origin (circa 1760s–1830s). Steeped in folklore, toadstones were once believed to neutralize poison, ward off misfortune, protect children—superstition rooted in misunderstood epilepsy. 

Recently Completed Works

Cartel Babies (2026) – upmarket literary suspense
Set in present-day Sinaloa, Mexico, Cartel Babies follows a foreign retiree with a military and aerospace background who is abducted along the highway between Culiacán and Mazatlán and forced into a remote mountain cartel camp. Trapped within the hidden labor engine sustaining northwest Mexico’s synthetic-drug economy, he becomes an unwilling witness to a world where violence is inherited rather than chosen. As he learns the camp’s rhythms and quiet hierarchies, his fight to survive collides with a harder truth: what happens to those born inside a war they never asked for? A completed feature-length screenplay adaptation accompanies the novel, developed by the author as a parallel narrative for film and television.

Let the River Decide (2025) – literary suspense (eco-fiction)
The story follows Mike and his stepfather Cliff as they journey 8,000 kilometers north from Bralorne, British Columbia, to the Arctic Ocean and back with two dogs in tow. Along the road, they encounter tainted waterways, vanishing wildlife, and a pattern of disappearances that echo northern Elders’ warning: the river keeps score—and when balance is pushed too far, it reclaims. Blending memoir realism with ecological mystery, the novel becomes both testimony and reckoning, where water itself remembers what humanity forgets.​

The Book of Dominatus – an eco-horror mythic cycle
A three-part literary universe fusing eco-horror and speculative mythology into a single evolving mythos.

Book I — The Lost World of Mythoamphibia (2023) – literary eco-horror
A fully illustrated novel and completed feature-length screenplay, The Lost World of Mythoamphibia is set against British Columbia’s Ring of Fire and follows a poisoned lake that awakens as witness and judge, where amphibian myth collides with human desecration in a literary horror of conscience. The story also anchors DOMINATUS: Scriptures & Rot, a narrative-driven horror board game rooted in the EᴠØ-Myth Multiverse™.

Book II — Return to the Source (2024) – literary speculative fiction
Spanning prehistory, early humanity, and cosmology, Return to the Source follows God as She journeys across the multiverse to confront Her Sisters and the unintended consequences of creation. As Neanderthals and Homo sapiens emerge along divergent paths, a lone human known as the Fourth is drawn into a decision that will test the boundaries of conscience and determine which lineage endures. Beneath it all lies a deeper tension—divine frustration with a species that reshapes the world faster than it understands it—revealing the fracture at the heart of creation and forming the mythic spine of The Book of Dominatus.

Book III — King Amphibia’s Rise (in development) – near-future literary eco-horror
Set in a near-future world, the story follows the emergence of a regenerative amphibian sovereign born from the fusion of Toadstone and Mother-of-Pearl, forcing humanity to choose between stewardship and surrender.

Across novels, screenplays, and game design, Michael J. Meraw’s work examines the forces that shape civilization—both those humanity engineers and those it denies. In an age when nature begins to answer back, his writing confronts the essential question: What happens when the natural world finally stops forgiving us?

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