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After far too many years waiting, rewriting, bouncing between projects, writer’s block, editing struggles, promotion, and self-flagellation, the first book of the Transcendent series, The Girl in the Tomb, is here.

To say this was a labor of love is both an understatement, and an inaccuracy. Because there is a great deal about this that was a struggle, to express my observations of the world around me… and there’s no small amount of it that I don’t love.

But at the same time… if I didn’t love what the final product became, I’d have never finished it, and wouldn’t have more planned. It’s not meant to be a championing piece for any particular group of people, nor is a lecture against any particular group (for all the railing against theocracy that you’ll see in Book 1, there’s plenty of critique and observations for many methods of governance and societies coming in future books).

I’m also admittedly anxious about my first “solo” title in about a decade. I had been building on the MegaTokyo brand, that I’m a little afraid that this will flop, even if logically I’m sure it will do fine.

I guess my point is I’m a jumble of emotions, as I tend to be on release day. For everyone who reads this, I apologize. For those currently reading, I hope you enjoy.

Thank you all for making this moonlighting job of mine possible.

I’m putting this together mostly because I’m realizing more and more that as readers open up the book, and start reading its content, that they may want to draw some parallels that aren’t intentional, and likely won’t be accurate.

Simply put, The Girl in the Tomb isn’t meant as some attempt at a prognostication of our future, even if it may seem like it, based on how the world is being strained all around us. It’s an allegory about how extremism, hyper-partisanship, and the desire for simple answers to complex problems can lead us down a road where we keep putting our hopes in the hands of the wrong people; people who tell us what we want to hear, rather than what we need to hear.

In fact, I tried to intentionally create a somewhat ridiculous road to collapse so that people wouldn’t think that I was trying to predict the future. Instead, it feels like reality is actively trying to be stranger than fiction.

All I ask is that you try not to think I’m trying to be a prophet. I’m not. I’d rather suck at it, honestly.