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Magic of reading.

There is nothing more fascinating than losing oneself in a thrilling story: the racing of one’s heart in those moments of danger, the pumping of blood when desire strikes, a burst of laughter at those unexpectedly funny incidents, or rampant imagination that comes with trying to anticipate future twists and turns. I strive to include all of these vital ingredients of a good story in my novels, and I am deeply convinced you’ll absolutely love ‘Intrinsic Encounters.’

Great Authors

Every great author was in the beginning an unknown, improbable writer offering a high-risk factor to a reader’s limited reading time and book-purchase-money, just one more face among the masses, until that one novel raised him or her above the teeming competition.

“Could I be,” I quietly ask myself in the silence of my living room as I stare at my book on Amazon, “just one such author, destined for greatness? Could it only be that I am yet to be discovered?”

I sigh, then click into Goodreads. My book flashes on the screen in an instant. Its title, ‘Intrinsic Encounters,’ quickly fills my mind’s eye. I remain wordless, bereft of consolation, eyes darting to and fro while I search for clues.

Just then, my gaze falls on the book’s glowing reviews at the bottom of the online page. Five stars out of five stars, sweet words of heartfelt praise, thumbs up, hugs, and endless kisses. I am humbled! I am empowered! I am intensely hopeful.

There are many good books out there, that’s for sure. Mine, it would seem, is definitely one among them.

One never knows a good thing till one give it a try, tastes it, appreciates its flavor, learns its strong points and feels its driving force powerfully pump blood in one’s own self.

“Intrinsic Encounters is a novel of great mastery and original creativity. It will not wheez tiredly into the night. It will not sink to bottom of the heap. This novel is destined to celebrate life with a bang of brilliant colors, an array of endless fireworks, for much of the day for years to come, and for all the world to enjoy.”

K. M. Oddeck

Humanity, Kindness, Love.

It’s sad that people still have to suffer and struggle with life in these modern times we are living in. People simply cannot stop making life unnecessarily difficult for others? In this day and age, with all of history’s lessons, everyone should surely know spreading strife or failing to alleviate another man’s strife only brings strife on their own doorstep? Sometimes I fail to understand people at all, who keep repeating the same historical abominations over and over, in large scale at country level, in the smaller yet equally devastating scales of familial and interpersonal relationship levels, thereby ending up behind bars, maimed, or in some other way deeply internally scarred for life. All these can be avoided, simply by being in possession of empathy.

I learnt my empathy as a child, a little kid still developing and not yet endowed with personal opinions, primarily through two sources:

1. God’s Word

2. Reading kid’s novels. 

The habit of reading stayed with me throughout the years, and my empathy grew.

So, seeing all the atrocities being committed the world over, am I to assume these perpetrators never ever read a book in their lives, and took its lessons to heart? 

How are we bringing up our children? To irrationally hate anyone and everything they have not grown up with?

It’s a proven fact that those who read, learn to appreciate other people’s rational points of view. Those who read regularly, exhibit a higher level of empathy. Isn’t that what this world needs? More genuine empathy, backed up by proactive facilitation of life in all its glorious color? Help wherever possible, live, and let live. For united we stand. Divided we fall. This world is currently falling. It’s high time we proactively ushered in that turning point. Nobody needs to suffer in this day and age. No one.

If you agree, spread the word, to every man, woman, boy and girl. Let the world know.

K.M. Oddeck, author of Intrinsic Encounters.

Welcome to my blog

Welcome. My name is K. M. Oddeck, author of Intrinsic Encounters. I’m so happy to have you as a visitor to this blog, where we’ll be discussing my book, among other things. I’ll use this blog to interact with you about Intrinsic Encounters, expand on some of the topics in it, and blog on related ideas that might be of interest to you.

This project is very special to me, and I hope to share some of that excitement with you here.

I also think this is a great place for you to get to know me. I’ll be returning here frequently with new posts and responses to feedback from you.

I too, am looking forward to getting to know you as well. In this light, what did you think of Intrinsic Encounters? What questions do you have for me? How do you relate to my book?

Please feel free to share what’s on your mind, or simply tell me a thing or two about yourself.