Checkmate?

As I continue on my journey of discovery regarding self-publishing, and self-promotion, I am again reminded that I would have been wiser to write for my target audience, rather than find one after the fact.

What did I know? I only wrote because I was compelled to write. 

Perhaps you have experienced the same frustration as I have in trying to identify or pick some choice or another according to one of several drop-down boxes, only to realize that none of your choices really seemed to match the available choices.

In trying to identify my ‘target audience’ I came up with several headings that tried to identify some of the subjects covered within this novel.

• Enhanced and Fortified Non-Fiction
• Literotica for Science Geeks
• Romance in the New World Order
• Metaphysical Action-Adventure
• Self-Determinism
• Rugged Individualism
• The Apocalypso
• Dystopia
• Polyamory
• Quantum Theory
• Transmogrification
• Irreverent Observations on Politics, Religion, Societal Norms, The Modern Zeitgeist, etc.
• What would you do after you realized that you had traded your life for money and your instincts for reason?
• The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
• Telepathy
• Crossing the Abyss
• Cyber-Holocaust

Perhaps you can sense my frustration. Perhaps you have experienced it for yourself.

Namasté

नमस्ते

Chazz Vincent

Delusional?

The last few years have demanded a great deal of introspection of myself, as well as assessment by my mental healthcare professionals, to wit:

A therapist of mine asked me awhile ago if I had ever experienced any delusions or episodes of delusional behavior, partly because a previous therapist had described my conversations as ‘grandiose’ and ‘rambling.’

I thought for a moment, and said “Well that depends…”

“What do you mean, ‘that depends’?” he asked. “Have you ever thought that you were Jesus, or that you could fly, or maybe had other supernatural powers?”

“No, but to tell the truth, it has occurred to me that no matter what you believe, as long as you can find enough people to support your dreams, and never have to face that you are wrong, it’s not a delusion anymore, either for you, or them.” 

Namasté

नमस्ते

Chazz Vincent

This is what happens when you put something out into the internet…

This image seems to have taken on a life of its own.

I was looking for internet images, and found this in a website about battleships….(IDK & IHNFIH)…  Battleships – my 50 english places    studylib.net260 

I also found numerous images that I had used while writing The Home for Wayward Souls and The Talking Monkeys under the Dreamlanddancing image search, as well as a Russian Author at WordPress who uses Dancing in Dreamland as her blog title, but it is written in Croatian, and in no way resembles my site. (Hooray for Google Translate, btw,)

(Before I started my WordPress site, I briefly used the pen-name Jesse Jones.)

My youngest son and I assembled the above cover using photoshop, but to my knowledge, it was never posted anywhere on the internet in this form.

I only used it to print a few writing samples, and then later revised it with my current name, and recently had a devil of a time locating the original image, which had been stored on another computer, and assembled on yet another computer that is now KIA.

Weird, n’est-ce pas?

Chazz Vincent (aka: the ghost of Jesse Jones)