As part of the run-up to the publication of The Woman Who Lived Amongst the Cannibals, artists working in a number of mediums are creating responses to/mutilations/remixes of my novel. Today I am proud to share two such responses:
A sound piece by Kenny Mooney: And So Elizabeth You Are Called
And a video by Katie Woodzik: the message in entirety seems transcribed
For those wondering, why self-publish:
The decision to self-publish is a decision toward freedom. It is a move toward amateurism.
Toward total control of all aspects of a finished, physical book.
From novelist or prose writer or fiction writer to a creator of books, objects, works of art, image, sound.
The Woman Who Lived Amongst the Cannibals will be created with the help of a printer.
The Woman Who Lived Amongst the Cannibals will be created with the help of an artist, Matt Kish.
A Light No More, next year to follow, will be created entirely by my hands.
No more Advanced Reader Copies, query letters, agents, editors, publicists, distributors, bookstores.
No more: submission, acceptance, rejection.
No more “Who will read this?” No more readers? No more scrounging for readers.
For the act of creation is the end purpose, not the packaging, marketing, selling of a product.
No more limits save the limits of my abilities.
If you are interested, here are the first 100 (and 1 or 2) pages of A Light No More. Again, this is a rough version, and the pages continue to be revised/altered.
I will be self-publishing my next two books–The Woman Who Lived Amongst the Cannibals in Winter 2017 and A Light No More in Fall/Winter 2018. Those interested in updates can sign up for my newsletter here https://tinyletter.com/RobertKloss. Thanks.
for those interested in a look at what I have been working on since March 2014 I am uploading here a pdf of the first 50 pages of my book-in-progress A Light No More. this is an unedited, incomplete, rough, in process set of pages–for all I know the final manuscript will in no way resemble what I am here uploading. from time to time I might upload more pages from the manuscript. or I might upload revisions of these pages. or I might not. I only know that this feels like something to share.
Soon, something here.
robert kloss 