AUTHOR MISSION STATEMENT

While not yet in print, with the magnitude of my work, I’ve discovered quite a few other things about authoring books. It would be untruthful not to state that I’ve come to realize and accept the consequence of what being an author creates, and how the world is affected by my writing. I feel ethical and moral responsibilities that are as important as the value in effort that I put into my work, and so part of my job is to ensure that I support causes that best represent my work and myself as an author and help to protect the values in this field that I recognize as being most important to protecting literature, and ensuring that books will always exist. My number one mission as an author, aside from the above, is to deilver the higest quality books on shelves. Additional sentences will only obscure my main mission.

The Environment

Books are one of the major contributors to the industry of pulp and paper, and therefore take a heavy toll on trees, and the environment, in general. Many authors know that when books are printed, trees are cut down. It goes with the territory, so to speak, and because of this, I think it’s only responsible that I work hard to protect what goes into my craft, along with what comes out of it, and the toll it takes on our environment. Many of my works themselves include aspects that focus on these issues, especially relating to animals and the impact people have on our environment, and that said, I will be working to ensure that all of my work is printed on recycled paper. I will also be supporting paper mills that practice conscientious and ethical responsibility, along with reforesting organizations. My general theories are simply this: Why does the Amazon need to be cut down for paper and other textiles, when they can be found in other parts of our world? Canada and areas of northern Europe and Asia offer perhaps more of these natural resources, and with proper reforestation plans in place, I think the lives of many species of plants and animals can be saved from places like the Amazon that provide homes for a greater variety of life that is disappearing faster than in other areas of the world. Below are some links to various organizations that work to protect the environment.

Arbor Day Foundation Tree-Nation USDA Forest Service International Volunteer HQ

Anti-Censorship

When Hitler burned books during WW2, what he was doing, aside from covering for the fact that he was murdering people, was trying to subvert information that he found dangerous to his cause. Eventually, everything was dangerous to his cause. And, eventually, had he not been stopped, we would have no books to read. We would have no wisdom. The sciences and arts would be lost to time and what would become of all of the knowledge we have acquired, advancing humanity to where we’re at now? While I think we can conclude that the world itself very likely wouldn’t exist today, had he won, but what is certain is that the human experience would be very different if he did. I won’t get into what life might be like, but as an author, I can attest through the rigorous training of mind, body and spirit that I have been through, I can say that the human body itself would function differently. All those precious moments in your life where you picked up a book, sat reading an exciting story on a comfortable chair in the corner; those would be gone. Your body itself wouldn’t know to pick something up and open a cover, your fingers absent of the sensations of flipping the pages, and your heart lacking warmth when you read something that affects what you know to be true. Essentially, with no books, life would certainly be a greater hell than it already is for many.

Throughout history, censorship has been an issue facing many authors, and I think some of it is in an attempt to limit knowledge and hence the minds of people. I am not yet in print, but I expect that due to the graphic content and nature of my work, some of my unpopular opinions and techniques, my writing will not be featured in various places. While I respect the right of anyone who runs a fair business and ethical institution to decide what they print and allow to be accessed, I will always stand for freedom of press and the liberties and values of America’s constitution, along with the creative expressions of artists of the entire world, and their work.

Many fiction works today, in my opinion, lack truth. They lack the greater and more subtle gems of wisdom and subversive messages that I have found in some of my favorite works; the things we know but often don't say ouright. There are many reasons for this, and part of my goal as an author is to bring these things to the surface, and include them in my work; from the concepts of the work, to the inner workings of the stories and the characters that illustrate and tell them. I have always valued honest, dark fiction, as I believe it mirrors many of the hardships of life, and I work to bring things to light, rather than obscure and hide them. My goal is to continue to write better quality books, and in the process, stand for the protection of my work and stories like mine. I am working on establishing a nonprofit organization to help maintain this fair standard of conduct in this industry, helping discriminated author’s gain more footing, if they are being censored, and this project is early in the stages of work, but for the time being, I am adding some links below to institutions that I endorse, working to protect our freedoms of speech, press and artistic expression. I would also like to add that I am not anti-piracy. My firm belief is that any printed book, if not affordable to someone, should be free to access - whether through libraries or from online sources. In simple, when my books are in print, if you must, download a free copy of my work, and pay me when you can!

American Library Association National Coalition Against Censorship

Anti-Violence

I make no claims that my work is friendly to the mind. In fact, I guarantee that it is not. My work is deep, often dark, but it is truthful and is not limiting of the hardships we face as people. As a satirist, some of my works are more comical, and I have always found the best comedy to be dark, which brings truth to light. Truth, in a sense, is ultimately something I aim to capture in my work, my own, as well as the truth of various other people, and this means there is sex, violence, and offensive content; because it is part of what is happening in the world around us. Some of my work may be viewed as gratuitous, although I aim to capture similar qualities in specific genres and use my skills and imagination in accordance to the techniques, trends and methods used in similar works that I enjoy and respect. So to say, some of my works will feature more graphic content than others, for it’s own creative and artistic purpose.

This means I have an ethical responsibility to make sure that I am not misunderstood. From the core of my very being, I do not like, nor endorse violence, for any reason, and am an avid proponent of gun control. Hunting, where necessary, is one thing, but I am a firm believer that there are way too many guns on our planet, and people that have access to them that should not. War is always imminent, in my opinion, and has existed since the beginning. We are all fighting battles, and the act of writing and putting ink to paper itself, is a form of fighting the elements, and ensuring strategies are in place to minimize the effects of war and combat between people in this competitive world. However, I will not endorse, nor involve myself in any sort of organized, or disorganized fighting or physical violence, and will speak out against it wherever I have the opportunity, but, as a supporter of anti-censorship practices, I will not exclude it in my work. In fact, I think violence belongs in the creative world, through the use of the imagination, confined to the pages of books and in the cinema, and may in fact be useful to limiting violence in life, certainly by keeping people reading rather than picking up a weapon to kill thy neighbors. And for these reasons, I will be actively supporting various anti-violence and domestic abuse organizations, and supporting their causes with every opportunity that I have. Below are some links to these various organizations. Remember, the pen wins more battles than the sword.

Domestic Violence Awareness Project International Peace Bureau