Genuine Offer to My Readers - Looking for Editor/Etc.

something which I should have said a long time ago

Hello friends,

I know there are a few of you here reading and just wanted to give y’all a very clear offer of mutual abundance-making.

After I finish Time Throws Fire, which still has a way to go actually. It’s only at 36k words and I’ll be aiming for 55k. There might be a tenth part called, ‘Threnody of Lojack’ — we’ll see. For reference, The Foundry is about 85k, Justiceers is 123k.

I really love the way my writing manages to layer so much depth in so little now. It’s weird for it all to change so much as its being written however. I need to bring some consistency to the language within Justiceers—and also between The Foundry and Time Throws Fire. I’m never going back though. This is how I write now. My stories can be larger and cooler than anyone else’s because I’ve finally got a little bit of that Gene Wolfe in me.

Going back to Justiceers and crushing it down to language like I write now will be my next project. I want to do it. I’m going to make it into the best story ever.

I need financial solutions and to eventually not be working a day job to have the time for pursuing all this and taking care of my life. My mental health challenges feel like a thing of the past, but the way I’ve unpacked my subconscious and retain some kind of additional connection to what I would refer to as spirit-at-large is challenging. I know my works are full of projection—to the brim. It’s all me. Still, little things here and there never fail to make me to wonder if it’s more than my subconscious. All that being said, the point is that I really do need the help I asked for—I’m really integrated now and while I have a creative space that is kind of wild inside me, I control it now and not the other way around. I don’t lose myself into the mythology and get delusional about it anymore, but practical things in my life still feel impossible sometimes—that doesn’t mean I’m not trying.

With my life stress I’m breaking things down and trying to do them myself, but it’s difficult with all I have on my plate and who I am.

The Foundry needs to get published first because it’s close. I need an editor and a salesperson—someone to help submit short stories to journals even—someone to fix the language at the beginning of sentences throughout The Foundry and take out all the ‘hads’ and needless commas. Or just help connecting with a literary agent.

I’m cool with the language of the Foundry series evolving as it goes to ease people into reading more densely layered and clever English. The Foundry is the story which needs to change. It needs to get closer to Time Throws Fire—but not too much. That’s how I see it at least.

I promise I’m chill in real life! I know y’all here have seen the very worst of me. It’s behind me. I’m ready to make that money, ho.