#guiltless reading

I wrote a guest post on the great blog, Guiltless Reading, about the origins of "The Ruins of Tropicalia". You can read it here. And here's a quote from it: 

"It’s hard to tell people about your book when you don’t want to tell them what it’s about. It’s hard to explain your book when it’s not exactly a book at all. It’s hard to objectively discuss your motivations and inspirations as a writer when an alternate version of yourself is also a character crawling across the pages (or at least lurks within the code of an e-reader). And it’s hard to sell a book when it’s free..." (Read More)

Guiltless Reading is also graciously helping to promote TROT by sponsoring a giveaway of Amends t-shirts and physical albums. If you're interested, scroll to the bottom of the post for details on how to enter the contest.