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December 15, 2017
Free ebook!
My book The Lonely Children of New York is free today! Please download and share. An early Christmas present from Phoenix.
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December 14, 2017
The Lonely Children of New York
Starting tomorrow, my novel The Lonely Children of New York will be free for download for Kindle. Stay tuned.
New Books on the Horizon!
I have two books slated for release early next year.
That includes my book Visions, a collection of essays about mental illness. I wrote many essays detailing intense and painful experiences I had when manic, and included philosophical tidbits and speculations about mental illness itself. It’s very raw but truthful, and I worked on the project for a couple years, detailing what it’s like to suffer from mental illness.
Slated books also include my book Midnight Mania, a story about a manic and hypersexual homosexual character named Grey, who struggles a ton with mental illness. I wrote this book when I was going through very difficult times, struggling with mania and trying to survive and accept myself, and I’ve been editing this book and consider it quite a literary and philosophical treat.
Definitely stoked to be bringing these books to you all.
That includes my book Visions, a collection of essays about mental illness. I wrote many essays detailing intense and painful experiences I had when manic, and included philosophical tidbits and speculations about mental illness itself. It’s very raw but truthful, and I worked on the project for a couple years, detailing what it’s like to suffer from mental illness.
Slated books also include my book Midnight Mania, a story about a manic and hypersexual homosexual character named Grey, who struggles a ton with mental illness. I wrote this book when I was going through very difficult times, struggling with mania and trying to survive and accept myself, and I’ve been editing this book and consider it quite a literary and philosophical treat.
Definitely stoked to be bringing these books to you all.
December 13, 2017
Invisible Conversations
I resumed work on my book Invisible Conversations: An Experiment, after not working on it for a couple years. I just wasn't quite sure where to take it. But, now that I've returned, I feel confident in the book, and I'm intrigued at the possibilities. It's good to get out of your comfort zone, and buckle down and get to work. The premise of the book is interesting to me. The first part is a series of letters to imaginary characters from books I've read, and letters to intellectuals throughout time, like the existentialists and Derrida, that deconstructionist. The second part, what I'm working on now, is from the perspective of who I used to be: Stephan Heard. Very vulnerable, I detail my past while also talking about the hope I gain from my enjoyment with engaging with other intellectual lights, invisible conversations. I'm enjoying it.
December 10, 2017
Advancements!
My essay collection Visions, a collection of essays on mental illness, is coming your way early next year, just a few final steps and this book will see the light of day. Also, The Lonely Children of New York, will be available for Kindle tomorrow. I'm psyched! And, don't forget my poetry book Torque is free until about twelve o' clock tonight, if you haven't gotten your copy yet. 😎
December 6, 2017
December 5, 2017
Torque!
My poetry instructor in college thought I was uncreative because too many of my poems were lyric poems, with an emphasis on the you/I relationship. Fifteen plus books of poetry later and I have to acknowledge that I still like writing poetry and that I'm still learning how to put pen to paper.
And in related news, my third written book of poetry, Torque, will be free for download tomorrow. Don't ever quit on yourself.
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And in related news, my third written book of poetry, Torque, will be free for download tomorrow. Don't ever quit on yourself.
Amazon.com/author/phoenix_rises
December 4, 2017
Torque Now Available for Kindle!
My poetry collection Torque is now available for Kindle. Find it here: https://www.amazon.com/Torque-Phoenix...
December 1, 2017
Exhaustion
My book Exhaustion is free for download today, which you can find on the link. In the meantime, here's an excerpt from the book.
I think of all the hateful things that people who are gay have gone through. I think about all the people who are gay that have been persecuted by churches and bigots and people who hate gays. I think of all the cruel jokes that a homosexual might hear in their lifetime. But, I’m a street kid. I’m a street kid that nobody has ever heard of and nobody will ever hear of, because I am essentially nothing to the world. Ergo, why the hell would they care about my sexual preference? If God was so hospitable to put me in this street life, in this down-on-my-luck position, in so low a position, why would he care what I do, what I believe in, who I like and who I love? Why would any of that matter? If I’m a street kid, it means that I don’t have any rights. It means that people don’t give a shit about what happens to me. So why should they care about what I believe? Why should they care about my liking for Rafael? It’s really none of their concern, using their own logic. If they could care less about my existence on the street …
Well, anyway. I won’t bludgeon you to death with that. But it’s true. I’m just a street kid, meaning that everything I do is null in the social world, in the real world. Nothing I do matters. I’m nothing, really, when it all comes down to it. God’s too busy tending to the rich corporate thieves that he doesn’t have time for a lowly street kid that has a slight crush on his best friend, Rafael. It’s nothing personal, but it’s certainly the irony of our existence. If God actually cared about me, I wouldn’t be a street kid to begin with. God probably doesn’t even exist, anyway.
https://www.amazon.com/Exhaustion-Pho...
I think of all the hateful things that people who are gay have gone through. I think about all the people who are gay that have been persecuted by churches and bigots and people who hate gays. I think of all the cruel jokes that a homosexual might hear in their lifetime. But, I’m a street kid. I’m a street kid that nobody has ever heard of and nobody will ever hear of, because I am essentially nothing to the world. Ergo, why the hell would they care about my sexual preference? If God was so hospitable to put me in this street life, in this down-on-my-luck position, in so low a position, why would he care what I do, what I believe in, who I like and who I love? Why would any of that matter? If I’m a street kid, it means that I don’t have any rights. It means that people don’t give a shit about what happens to me. So why should they care about what I believe? Why should they care about my liking for Rafael? It’s really none of their concern, using their own logic. If they could care less about my existence on the street …
Well, anyway. I won’t bludgeon you to death with that. But it’s true. I’m just a street kid, meaning that everything I do is null in the social world, in the real world. Nothing I do matters. I’m nothing, really, when it all comes down to it. God’s too busy tending to the rich corporate thieves that he doesn’t have time for a lowly street kid that has a slight crush on his best friend, Rafael. It’s nothing personal, but it’s certainly the irony of our existence. If God actually cared about me, I wouldn’t be a street kid to begin with. God probably doesn’t even exist, anyway.
https://www.amazon.com/Exhaustion-Pho...
