BLOG: My First Hardback Book
After four works, I am finally going to publish a hardback book. The plan is to always have a hardback available in all of my works from now on. I don't want to promise anything but I also plan on republishing the epic poem Heavenly Decay Books I and II from my works Someone Sinister and Universe Unraveling respectively, in hardback for the ten-year anniversary of my first work, along with a final Book III. I have really been mulling that in my mind recently. My next hardback work, which I am currently working on, will be my next novel, Fake Death.
The Dorner Protocol will be published soon and getting to finish this has been a long, taxing, arduous, grueling, and loss-filled process. It is one of the reasons for the downfall of a lot of things in my life but the downfalls will never understand how uplifting this is to me. That is why things fell. I was so focused on this and getting it done because I said I would because I had to read more and study more and understand more so I could write more, so I could get this done and done right. It has been more than uplifting and a greater feeling than any downfall supposedly caused by this work...
I am deflecting and blaming the work, but it's me, but I'll blame this work. I can blame it because of how it feels and this isn't mania or some manic moment. This has been in some ways an awful experience but it has also been a very rewarding and enlightening one. The path, the journey of creating this work showed me a lot and I'm glad I saw it all. My eyes were purposely opened sort of like this work was Deus ex Machina and the Divine Presence the Supreme One, the Most High used it to intervene in my life and show me what this world is and allowed this work to be a new beginning. This is self-validation, this is me enacting my will and maybe a greater will. I created the art I wanted to create and I am presenting it in the best formats available.
Speaking of formats. Soon The Dorner Protocol will be available as an eBook and an audiobook. I am still a staunch believer in owning books, specifically books, in their physical form, a form you can touch, where the words actually exist in your environment and not some ethereal where works can mysteriously disappear because some unlearned, sensitive, unconfident, piece of shit, censors it or "loses" it, or allows the algorithms to hide it. I want my books to live in a world where you have to burn the fucking book to rid the world of its horrid words.
I also am not a huge fan of audiobooks just because I get easily distracted. I don't want to be cleaning or working on something or doing something around the home and miss a plot point. That's something that I have learned to embrace over the years is that I really cannot multi-task. When I am focused on something whether it be some artwork, or actual work, or some task menial or otherwise I just have to focus on that task until it is done and then I can move on and books should not be enjoyed passively. That also is why I have planned out the release of my works so meticulously. Despite some major hiccups I have been making five-year plans and sticking to them and accomplishing a lot of those goals.
Sorry for the digression.
I know that experiencing a book in your hands is a better experience than reading a book on a screen. I have read many on both and technology cannot replace the feeling of closing a finished book. This technology has infinite benefit thought process is nonsense and technology often bastardizes everything it intends to replace.
I will get with the times and publish digital copies of the work but later this summer.
If no one reads a single word of this work I know I would feel down but I cannot imagine that feeling usurping how I feel in this moment.
I finally published a hardback a hardcover... ALL SMILES!
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