Travesty

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Writing is fun, getting paid for it is not. Or better said, it’s not easy whatsoever to make money off it, and more so it’s not really fun to turn a passion into a job. This book was rejected by numerous agents for being “too controversial in today’s subjective market.” Well I suspect the other side of that coin is that I am also a new author, but I do like to think that they only mean this current novel is too radical or touchy—not my writing! So with a dead end reached in traditional publishing, but a desire to show you, my dear reader, what I have been working on, I went to self-publishing. Will this book reach the audience I would have through traditional publishing? I don’t know. But if you want to make an aspiring author’s day, one free way you can help me reach my other potential readers is through word of mouth, and leaving a review when finished.

My final warning though, reader, is that this novel is controversial, and may very well rub you the wrong way. But would you rather read fluff, boring and unthoughtful tropes of genres you’ve read countless times before, or something that makes you think, heck, maybe even angry—I know I would. I have a philosophy: everything we do should be educational. What you read should leave you with something new to ponder, to research, to talk, and to hopefully even write about. Only this way is the cycle of literature truly completed, its future safeguarded.

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