Welcome To My World

Chaos Theories is my first novel - a work in progress, actually. At the time of this posting, I've finished ten chapters and edited eight of them. I figure that's a good time to introduce my baby to the world for words of encouragement, criticism, or what have you. I'm personally very pleased with the way the book is coming, and I hope readers will agree enough to be suckered into coming back for the next posted chapters.

The Internet makes publishing easy - too easy, perhaps. Anyone with enough time on his or her hands can write whatever he or she likes - the question is whether she or he should. If there is an advantage to publishers and editors, it is that they provide some filter against a flood of swill. Not that your works are swill - I'm referring to other people.

If there is a second advantage, it is (not to be too blunt) remuneration. Good writing is hard work and should be rewarded. I hope that some people will find Chaos Theories to be that type of writing and voluntarily throw some small rewards my way. I hope even more to benefit from the exposure and reader comments to the point of selling this work into the mainstream literary world. But in the meanwhile, it's all yours. The first few chapters will come quickly, and then I will keep up as well as I can. The more people shout at me that they need to know what happens next, the more quickly I'll be motivated to let them know.

I'll post the first chapter (which is fairly short) as text, and make the complete work available in PDF as I go along. And now, without further ado ... Chaos Theories

update: 6/9/08 - We're up to chapter 21 now. The easiest way to get the most current recent chapters is by the labels. Full PDF to date will get the most recent version from chapter 1 forward. Download PDF will get individual chapters since then.