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Welcome to my promotional lit site! The serious writer hides away in his cave, pumping out furious and curious literature. That's not going to sell any books! What the serious author needs is a sandwich board, an army of prostitutes with bootleg copies of the author's zines tucked under their trenchcoats, a legion of greasy haired salesmen pimping the author's literature. That's what sells books.
I'm the author, and this site is my gaudy dealership.
The author retreats further into his cave, drumming out the terrible noise and neon-lights of promotion. Writes about how useless, pointless and inane it is. Unsure what he's most furious about, that he's forced to do it, or that it works!
A gigantic rift occurs, lightning strikes and splits the author's personality in two. A void of vaguery fills the spaces in between. But he wants to write. And he wants others to read. And somehow the void is maintained - vast, wide, treacherous, shrinking, expanding, hypocritical and highly unstable. Yet the author and website continue to exist, two roommates with a fat 'do not cross' line meted down the center of the mental apartment, co-existing, living in parallell on either side of the vast buffer. Seperate, but both paying the rent.
My name is Leopold McGinnis. I am the author of numerous short stories and poems floating about the Internet, literature and zine worlds. I am also the author of the underground novella, The Red Fez and the novel Game Quest. I founded and edit the lit site Red Fez Publications, publishing under-recognized talent from around the world (with no funding!), was a former member of the Underground Literary Alliance and now a founding member of The Guild of Outsider Writers.
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