Why I write and formed my own publishing company

In 2015 I had completed writing my first book. I was eager (perhaps an understatement) to release it and its insights into the world. I fell into the trap that many first time authors fall into, pairing up with a ‘self-publishing’ company. This was a hard lesson learned.

Since publishing Life is Weird, a memoire styled non-fictional work, I changed my writing focus toward Philosophical Fiction. This transition was inspired by writers like Albert Camus and J.M. Coetzee. The project of philosophical fiction is to open up both philosophical inquiries to something more suggestive and open ended and also to expand fiction beyond simple story telling to encompass enlivened arguments which are set back within the framework of human life through the lived and embodied experience of engagement with fictional texts full of ‘as if’ worlds.

This genre, as valuable as I believe it is, is a fringe genre, resting just outside of the shelves of both philosophy and regular (mainstream) fiction. However, it is a genre that has the unique potential to open up inspiring and thoughtful, though fun and entertaining, stories to wider sets of dynamic audiences.

I spent a few months re-engaging with the text of Life is Weird after earning my Masters in Philosophy. I cleaned up the writing and made it more simple to read and absorb its themes and insights. Then I started the arduous work of learning how to actually self-publish. This is an ongoing process, with ups, downs, frustrations and ‘aha!’ moments alike.

As a Philosopher (though I prefer to be remembered as a wandering Sophist) thinking is my true passion, and anyone who knows me also knows that I talk a lot! But, there is a timelessness to writing and a share-ability which goes beyond modern forms of media that exists uniquely in the medium of published books. Which is why I labor countless hours to create compelling narratives that also function as commentaries and thought inquiries into ‘what it means to be human’ in an ever changing world (one which also seems to constantly be a further departure from nature).

I love plants, animals, natural landscapes and the natural balance and harmony which they aesthetically reveal. My characters thus are often torn between the frills of a modern existence and the perils of nature that seem to be an unfortunate byproduct of our diving deeper and deeper out of alignment with the natural flow of the planet which we all call home.

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