Fighting Cancer

My regular readers may have noticed that I haven’t been posting a lot of late. Indeed, my last posting was on a book I published under The Metamodern Press, Immolation of an Angel. When I’m not working full time, I had been preparing that manuscript, and now I am preparing several other manuscripts—these, my own. I am working on several poetry collections and two novels for publication on Amazon through The Metamodern Press.

I’m not a big fan of self-publication. I held out a great many years before finding a publisher for my novel Hear the Screams of the Butterfly. More recently, I have had pair of poetry collections—companion pieces—published. I’m proud of Words of Gratitude and Songs of Resentment, and I hope my readers have enjoyed the collections. Despite what it may sound like, the theme of the latter is about the dangers of resentment, so it really is a companion piece to the former. And if you’re more interested in philosophy than fiction and poetry, there’s still Diaphysics.

If you want to support me, I encourage you to not only buy my books, but to review them for me, not just here or in your other favorite place to post, but on Amazon as well. The more reviews I get on Amazon, the more likely people will see the books when people search for poetry, novels, or philosophy. I hope you will keep this in mind, too, when I publish my other collections and novels.

Now, you may wonder why I am self-publishing when I say I’m not a fan of self-publishing. Well, I cannot wait twenty years like I did for Hear the Screams of the Butterfly. I cannot wait, because I have a rare kind of cancer that in the vast majority of cases is terminal. I am currently taking a test medication that at least seems to have slowed down the growth of the cancer, and let’s face it, it needs to stop growing and even reverse. And I cannot count on that happening. Thus, the urgency in getting my books out there.

So, keep an eye out here for future announcements of poetry collections and novels. I do want to get the novels I have finished out there, and I hope I can finish writing another one I’m presently working on as well. Perhaps I can find the time to put together a short story collection as well. And I hope I can count on everyone’s support in my literary endeavors.