The page is not a focus group.
A story does not owe the market advance notice of what it intends to become.
Aester August / Author / Public nuisance
PHUCK Publishing.
Creativity is an evolving bruise.
01 / Manifesto
No obedient prose.
No demographic boxes. No obedient prose. No novels designed by a room full of people afraid of the reader. PHUCK PUBLISHING is a mantra and a threat. It is what happens when the great stories and phenomenal writing tell a bunch of people with an archaic system to kiss my ass and let the work cover the page and affect the reader.
I publish the argument before the market can sand off its fingerprints. I trust readers with ambiguity, appetite, contradiction, and the occasional beautifully placed injury to ego and emotions. Nothing is softened for a category. Nothing is sterilized for a shelf. The work earns its depth of penetration word for word, sentence by sentence, cover to cover.
Ambiguity is reader participation.
Explanation is not clarity when it removes the only interesting question.
Polish must leave fingerprints.
Perfectly sterilized language is still dead on arrival.
Literary operating procedure
Literature should enter like a brick through a window
not wait in the lobby for permission.
02 / The Works
Some evidence should be recorded.
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Screenplays / Novels with their teeth still in
03 / Notes
Unsolicited thoughts.
Essays, arguments, and other reasons to reconsider the mute button.
Appearances
Nothing scheduled.
Civilization has been given a temporary reprieve from mayhem in person.
04 / Social Media / The Un-Official Story
Fifty-seven years. Still no approved version.
Three pieces of public evidence, selected without context and preserved without apology.
05 / Submissions
What do you want?
Written messages only. No files. No mystery attachments. Send the words and let them survive on their own.
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