Hi all,
While I prepare to launch POET, DANCER and MUSICIAN, the three books which make The Indrajala Trilogy, I have two other new books releasing this year as well. POET releases on April 23rd.
What if your life wasn’t a journey, but a screenplay being edited in real-time by a dead man?
THE FINAL CUT is a high-concept techno-horror novel that blends the cinematic dread of The Shining with the digital dystopia of Black Mirror. THE FINAL CUT will release as...
POET in Hardcover and Paperback releases April 23 - Shakespeare's birthday.
DANCER is scheduled for JUNE.
MUSICIAN is scheduled for JULY.
POET in Hardcover and Paperback will be available April 23rd. (William Shakespeare's birthday)
El libro POET, tanto en tapa dura como en rústica, estará disponible a partir del 23 de abril.
Le livre POÈTE, tant en tapa dur comme en rustique, estará disponible à partir du 23 avril.
"Al final del día, podemos soportar mucho más de lo que creemos" — Frida Kahlo
("At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can." )
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“You think you're reading my poems, but in truth, they are reading you” - John Mark Green
"Mejor morir de pie que vivir arrodillado" - Emiliano Zapata
(It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees)
This article is inspired by an old book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig.
Let me say from the outset, the notes below apply to me, most of all. wanting something to be, doesn't make it so, straight away.
Writing is often treated as production: word count, deadlines, output, performance. Zen offers a different frame. It does not ask, “How much have you written?” It asks, “How present were you while writing?”
To explore Zen and writing is not to adopt mysticism or...
If you've ever done B2B sales, a Literary Agent is basically a Buyer. And, like Buyers, Literary Agents are not monoliths. Some are personable, with well-developed senses of humor and engaging personalities - some are not.
Like Buyers, Literary Agents have "buying criteria" and "open-to-buys" that they must adhere to if they want to keep their jobs. "Open-to-buy" is simply a restriction on what agents can buy right now! They may have too many Romance novels at the moment, or a glut of Epic...
"Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things already made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends anymore". - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince.
From Wikipedia:
The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince, pronounced [lə p(ə)ti pʁɛs]) is a novella written and illustrated by French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in English and French in the United States by Reynal &...
A lot of people will tell you they've read a book, when they haven't. This is particularly true for so-called Classic Literature. Maybe people feel guilty because they feel they were supposed to read those books? Or maybe they're just bored with your conversation?
Here's why I think reading the Classics is important: I learned all about the contrasts between good and evil from reading The Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen. They also taught me about moral ambiguity. This knowledge...
What inspires you?
For me, it's simple ... art, music, literature, nature, people.
This is Pieter Bruegel The Elder's "The Triumph of Death" painted in 1562. Yes, even a depiction of the "end of all life on earth" can be inspirational. Sometimes, it's a butterfly.
POET, the first book of my Indrajala Trilogy, is done!
Copies are going out to readers and editors then, if I'm lucky, I'll score a good Literary Agent to promote and sell my book :)
I hate waiting.
By far, the single worst part of writing a book is AFTER you have completed the book.
First, you have to wait for a proof.
Then you have to wait for editors to do their thing.
Then you have to wait for friends and family to read the book. (Hint: sometimes this takes longer than actually writing the book)
Then you have to find a literary agent.
Then you have to wait for agents to reply to you - IF they reply to you.
Then you have to make changes based on the feedback of all the above...
each page we read
inside a book
another look
at poetry
and discord
each flaw that gnaws
at our subconscious
furtively
as if to hide
a right of
no more than
desperation
and mortality
encased in words
both beautiful
and trite
to die a sigh
that whispers to
the universe
as if our verse
significant
to stars
each page we read
another look
in hope the book
will somehow
this time
end its tale
much differently
Hi all.
I'm toying with the idea of this cover (or similar) for POET.
What do you think? Love it? Hate it? Don't care?
I'm not married to the cover, just getting a feel for it.
Picture features James Clear Quote: “Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.”
Two minutes on any social media platform will find you a thousand memes and articles on motivation. Most are hokey "you can do it" phrases and rarely will you find discussion on why various motivations matter.
Zuck's motivation for creating Facebook was banal - he wanted to get laid. The GOP's motivations are transparently transactional - more money, more power, more racism, more misogyny....
There's Something Wrong
There's something wrong with my biology,
a flaw inside my complicated mind,
to make me want to write a trilogy.
Conceptually, it is a symphony,
six movements without meter, without rhyme;
there's something wrong with my biology
that shapes a story from soliloquies.
There must be depths that I have yet to mine
to make me want to write a trilogy.
Analogous, like all analogies,
I cannot see my neurons, yet I find
there's something wrong with my biology.
The scan came back, my...
There's Something Wrong
There's something wrong with my biology,
a flaw inside my complicated mind,
to make me want to write a trilogy.
Conceptually, it is a symphony,
six movements without meter, without rhyme;
there's something wrong with my biology
that shapes a story from soliloquies.
There must be depths that I have yet to mine
to make me want to write a trilogy.
Analogous, like all analogies,
I cannot see my neurons, yet I find
there's something wrong with my biology.
The scan came back for my...
Sometimes I can be doing chores, walking the dog, watching TV, or a host of other activities when the urge hits me - WRITE!!!
And if I neglect that internal command I often pay the price by forgetting what my thought was, forgetting the exact plot twist or word usage that inspired me, forgetting that I am a writer who has no choice but to write - whenever the urge hits me.
What's worse, is forgetting what you wanted to write WHEN you're in the middle of writing it!
We all have our crosses to...
Very few people still use a pen and paper for writing but I definitely do for keeping character notes, geographic notes, plot profiles, that sort of thing.
But when it comes to the actual story itself, it's laptop and/or phone. I used to be a "laptop only" guy but converted to the phone when I realized how handy it is to access Google and other research, in real-time, while you're writing.
Both phone and laptop have their benefits and downsides so it is individual choice, sometimes in the...
