Some Thoughts Before Transcendent’s Release

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.

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