There’s a bunch of you folks who come here on a daily basis…somewhat more who come here on a week-to-week basis.  I can tell from the servers logs…but no…I have no idea who any of you are.  Those of you who come here from a few of the major ISPs I don’t even know precisely where you live.  But I have a small, but very satisfying audience here.  And I am delighted with all of you…whether or not you comment.  I have never once advertised this site.  So I have to assume that those of you I don’t know personally, just stumbled upon my little place, and decided that it was worth revisiting regularly.  That is just…amazing.

Per the previous post…  I mentioned an author who has self-published a book on Authoritarianism.  He has offered his book for free in PDF format to the world…but is also using a service called Lulu to create paperback copies if anyone wants to buy one.  I just took a closer look at Lulu…and it is interesting to me on a number of levels. 

Services like Lulu offer authors the ability to have books literally made-to-order, at prices competitive with what you’d get from Amazon or any mortar and brick bookseller.  So if someone likes what you do, the technology now exists to make one-off copies for anyone who wants one.  You don’t have to interest a big publisher.  That means if your material is such that it only is of interest to a small subset of readers, you can still have your book printed and they can still read you.

I’ve been wanting to do books for ages.  I have two primary interests here: my art photography naturally…but also some works of fiction.  This is what I want to ask you about. 

Most of you may not know this, but some years ago I had a series of fantasy world stories up here on my web site:  The Skywatchers of Aden.

The series takes place in an alternate universe earth…one with different continents and different histories.  There is a struggle to the death involving a theocratic totalitarian state…Ekrus…and a nation of refugees from that state…Aden…comprised of many non-conformist faiths who came together to form their own nation…a democracy based on religious freedom.  But they cannot fight alone.  There is a third nation…Atria…a nation of many native peoples who hold to many different values and worship many different gods…that is caught in the middle of this war between the theocracy and the democracy.  Somehow, these people of wildly divergent views on faith and morality have to find common ground in order to preserver against the large and powerful theocratic state.  The central focus of the stories is on a same-sex couple…one of which is a devout non-conformist believer from the nation of Aden…the other a native of Atria…who find themselves in love and in the middle of this scorched earth war between Aden and Ekrus.

As I said…some time ago I had these stories up here…and then I pulled them down when I became dissatisfied with them.  I am not naturally a writer…I am a graphic artist.  But I do write occasionally and this fantasy series still attracts my attention.  I have been meaning to re-write some of what I initially put out and add some illustrations and re-post it.  My question to you all is…would you be interested in reading it?  Those of you who keep coming back here to read my occasional posts…is it conceivable to you that you might be interested in reading some fiction I might produce?

Just curious…because it seems the technology exists for me to turn this into a book after all.  I would love to…one day…hold a book of my own in my hands.

If there is enough interest…I’ll start reposting some of the stories.  I still want to add some illustrations though.  But feedback would be…wonderful.