Hello everybody. Just some updates.
I am making significant progress on the book, Ong’s Hat: Compleat. I am confident I will have it ready for publication early next year. I toyed with the idea of going with a traditional publisher to save me the stress of doing the editing, layout, publishing, and distribution for a change but my recent negative experience of working with “industry” people has convinced me that I should maintain control of my narratives and their public presentation. So, OHC will be self-published, like all my other works now and in the future.
On the movie front, I have withdrawn Ong’s Hat as a movie because I do not wish to work with “Hollywood” entities because that system is designed to water things down to appeal to the masses, and my work is not for the masses. It’s highly personalized stories told for my tribe, which, if you’re reading this, is probably you and others like you. My people. The “Others”.
The “entertainment industry” has hijacked one of the most important of human activities. Storytelling. Some of us, me included, will no longer hand over the results of one of the most sacred rites, our stories, to the giant parasite that I half-jokingly call Mouseferatu. Of course, it’s not only Disney but the big D is a perfect icon for what I oppose.
The things I will be working on between now and next year.
1.) Finish and publish Ong’s Hat: Compleat.
2.) Layout and publish a full-color, print, 11 X 8.5 graphic novel version of Statio Numero.
3.) Begin preproduction of an independent video version of Liminal. I recently spoke to Helena Celle for hours about a lot of things but among them, we spoke about Helena doing a soundtrack for Liminal the movie. (It was an excellent conversation by the way)
Now to the thing I want to ask of you. Since I published the interactive edition of Statio Numero, there has been no real mechanism to collect and display reviews. I’d also like to have some reviews on the back cover of the print edition next year. So, if you read Statio and want to review it, there are two ways you can do it.
1.) Send an email to quotes@josephmatheny.netphmatheny.net with your review (1-5 lines is ideal, but I will refine longer reviews to shorter versions for print). Also, include any website you’d like me to link to from the Statio Page.
2.) Review on Goodreads and notify me via quotes@josephmatheny.net so I can include it on the Statio Page and the back cover of the print version.
An example of a review to email me:
Quote content. -Your Name [Link to a website you’d like your name to be linked to. ]
Your reviews will be archived on the Statio Numero page and the back cover of the print version next year.
I appreciate if you decide to help me out with this.
Hey on point 2 towards the end I think you might've typo's your good reads email id. If you haven't sorry pls ignore this.
It will be my honor to review Statio. It's a great story. I was honored to being one of Statio Beta Testers and again I am honored to write your reviews to both help sell your stylish art. And for you to be able to use mine, and I'm sure others of the Tribe quotes for the larger version.
Rob Conn
Thank you for opening the doors and sharing the alternate places told by your imagination.
RC3