A week from tomorrow will be my 39th birthday! It will also be the birthday of my second book, The Epic of Chakramire: Mistress of Strife, and tenth birthday of my first book, Affect Engineering: A Unified Field
Theory of Emotions. Perhaps in another ten or twenty years I will write something else. Who is to say? It seems to be habit forming for me.
Aside from updating things that needed updating or that had not been updated in nearly a decade, like this webpage and metadata, I plan to share a single excerpt each day for the next week (some of the shorter, bite-sized ones of one to three sentences) from The Epic of Chakramire, with the sole purpose of putting a smile on someone’s face, making them think, or furrowing some eyebrows. A few excerpts will be from the main character and the rest will be from other characters in the epic poem (i.e., narrative verse, or secondary epic in this case as it is written). Its subject codes are epic poetry, verse drama, and science fiction: general.
The book cover illustration (back, spine, and front cover) is below. If you are curious, I began creating the cover from a colored pencil sketch I did several years ago and it underwent a lot of editing before I put it together using Adobe Indesign. If you are not curious, then feel free to ignore the previous two sentences, and this one too. If you want to know more about the story itself, then you can probably figure out the next steps once it becomes available for global distribution. Its official publishing date will be August 11th, 2024 (Hardcover, Paperback, and eBook). No audiobook plans yet. I might have several dozen voices inside my head, but they all sound like me when I talk . . . TBD.
After seven days, I will go back to being the social media hermit that you all have come to know.
~ Marcus