Madeira Desouza

Madeira Desouza writes speculative fiction that treats power as the real antagonist. His work returns repeatedly to the same question: what happens to the people an institution decides are expendable, and what do the people owe each other once they realize exactly what is going on.

Clavius Deep is his science fiction novel about a buried lunar base, time machines which extraterrestrial aliens made possible, and the young male agents sent to change history. It is published independently through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing in Kindle, paperback and hardcover editions, and is enrolled in Kindle Unlimited.

Independent publishing for this novel was a deliberate choice rather than a fallback. This method of publishing keeps the pacing, the content, the cover and the price under the author's control, and this means the book reaches readers without being softened by committee censorship. The book must rely on word of mouth to become known since it has no elite New York City marketing department pulling the strings. 

He is at work on the second and third books of The Clavius Harvest series. New developments, cover reveals and release information all are shared with newsletter subscribers first.

Pen Name

The author is a citizen of the United States, born in California. His heritage is Portuguese from both his parents, the late Edward and Evelyn Goulart. He is Elwood Franklin Goulart, but is known to most people by his nickname, Woody.

The word madeira is Portuguese for wood.

The surname Desouza is a variation of the surname Souza from his old country grandfather on his mother's side.

The year 1996 was the first occasion in which he published online under the pen name of Madeira Desouza. In 2007 he branched out into creating original 3D digital images for online publication also using that same pen name.

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