Jordan Shiveley

A MAP FOR A LAND WE HAVE FELT WHISPERING BENEATH OUR SKIN SINCE THE DAY WE WERE BORN

Alright! Progress is chugging along! The book is over 40K words now...A NOVEL! And I am making new art for it all the time as well! I can only apologize for how intermittent these updates have been. I could blame living in a pandemic and late-stage capitalism but really I've just been thrashing around to keep everything above water but I can assure you this project has been front and center all that time even as other rent-paying projects have come and gone. At this point the book has the following sections: the main two character prose narrative, pick your own path sections, ephemera art and newspaper sections (MAYBE SOMETHING ELSE IF I AM ALLOWED) each of these sections repeat in a braided fashion as the book progresses and the aim is to guide you through the main narrative arc and also layer in all these other flavors that hopefully baste the carcass of the book to a beautiful mouth-watering sheen by the end. The Unbound editor has been fully involved and watchful so rest assured someone IS herding me along. (in the nicest most supportive way) The thing is the book has expanded in scope substantially from the initial pitch of a collection of the tweets formed into newspaper pages and made to have some sort of coherent narrative flow. This tome has become a full on intermedia narrative project (or at least my hope is for it to come across as that) and it's the first one I have committed to print so...there have and will be a lot of back and forth with what is possible and how to temper both mine and yours DEAR CONSTANT READER's expectations. I can already see the sequel in my head. But now I have to knuckle down and QUIT ADDING NEW TYPES OF NARRATIVE to this project and just finish what is mapped out (and yes the entire plot is now mapped out in detailed paragraph outlines) So all I can say is THANK YOU dear Cold Flames, Darkest and Truest of Hearts, Unending Of Teeth, your patience and support is the only way a project this non-mainstream in structure would get made and I hope to honor your support and belief with this book when it comes out. All the Love and Teeth, Jordan

Alright! Progress is chugging along! The book is over 40K words now...A NOVEL! And I am making new art for it all the time as well! I can only apologize for how intermittent these updates have been. I could blame living in a pandemic and late-stage capitalism but really I've just been thrashing around to keep everything above water but I can assure you this project has been front and center all that time even as other rent-paying projects have come and gone.  
 
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At this point the book has the following sections: the main two character prose narrative, pick your own path sections, ephemera art and newspaper sections (MAYBE SOMETHING ELSE IF I AM ALLOWED) each of these sections repeat in a braided fashion as the book progresses and the aim is to guide you through the main narrative arc and also layer in all these other flavors that hopefully baste the carcass of the book to a beautiful mouth-watering sheen by the end.

The Unbound editor has been fully involved and watchful so rest assured someone IS herding me along. (in the nicest most supportive way)

The thing is the book has expanded in scope substantially from the initial pitch of a collection of the tweets formed into newspaper pages and made to have some sort of coherent narrative flow. This tome has become a full on intermedia narrative project (or at least my hope is for it to come across as that) and it's the first one I have committed to print so...there have and will be a lot of back and forth with what is possible and how to temper both mine and yours DEAR CONSTANT READER's expectations. I can already see the sequel in my head. But now I have to knuckle down and QUIT ADDING NEW TYPES OF NARRATIVE to this project and just finish what is mapped out (and yes the entire plot is now mapped out in detailed paragraph outlines) 
 
So all I can say is THANK YOU dear Cold Flames, Darkest and Truest of Hearts, Unending Of Teeth, your patience and support is the only way a project this non-mainstream in structure would get made and I hope to honor your support and belief with this book when it comes out. 
 
All the Love and Teeth, 
Jordan

KNIVES WE KNEW THE NAMES OF...KNIVES THAT ANSWERED BACK

Progress is being made! The book is over 40k words and is barely approaching the halfway mark! I have been getting ever more fevered with the collage work I am making for the newspapers sections and the NECROMANCY CHOOSE YOUR OWN PATH sections just keep growing like that crack in the wall in the back of your closet...you know the one...the whispering one? Here is a vintage mockup of some pages I was working on yesterday. Next time I want to show ya'll the process of making the water stains to use in the book...because yeah....I MADE THEM BY HAND FOR YOU DEAR CONSTANT READER...you deserve it.

Progress is being made! The book is over 40k words and is barely approaching the halfway mark! I have been getting ever more fevered with the collage work I am making for the newspapers sections and the NECROMANCY CHOOSE YOUR OWN PATH sections just keep growing like that crack in the wall in the back of your closet...you know the one...the whispering one? Here is a vintage mockup of some pages I was working on yesterday. Next time I want to show ya'll the process of making the water stains to use in the book...because yeah....I MADE THEM BY HAND FOR YOU DEAR CONSTANT READER...you deserve it. 
 
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THE FEAST IS SET BUT THE CELEBRANTS HAVE YET TO AWAKEN

So an update!! First off, abject apologies, it has taken me this long to make one of these but I think we are all a bit crushed beneath the still ponderous weight of 2020. HOWEVER! The book is moving forward and it is TRANSFORMING into something more horrifically splendorous than it was at first planned. There are now 2 POVs (one in the MANSIONS OF SILENCE one in maybe our world but maybe not who the fuck knows when madness reigns?!!) NECROMANCY CHOOSE YOUR OWN POSSIBLY EXCITING BUT MAYBE NOT EVENT sections...MORE ephemera! I, your humble benighted servant of the Carrion Oak, have been scanning by hand all the weird and possibly DARKLY EDIFYING public domain engravings I can find (I've bought like 8 books of them) so that is of course time-consuming but what do we have to do with our time anyway besides withering triumphantly in the face of death's implacable approach? So yeah this book is becoming a kaleidoscope story of weird moments, a corpse stitched together from the stolen meat of dreams and I think that is very appropriate for a book of HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA...a world we all built together through beautiful terrors recognizing something familiar in each other. I can't wait to share it with you and I promise to not give it into your sweaty, fevered hands until it is exactly the BOOK YOU DESERVE dear Cold of Flame and Dark and True of Heart. okay also...the preorder period will be ongoing until the book actually is printed so I would love it if you could continue to promote this campaign and tell everyone about it. The way Unbound works is really neat but it also depends on over funding for me the writer to get paid (the first 100% just pays for the book printing) so let's get the Abyss paid y'all. All the love and Teeth, Jordan Shiveley, Dread Singles

So an update!! First off, abject apologies, it has taken me this long to make one of these but I think we are all a bit crushed beneath the still ponderous weight of 2020. 
 
HOWEVER! The book is moving forward and it is TRANSFORMING into something more horrifically splendorous than it was at first planned. There are now 2 POVs (one in the MANSIONS OF SILENCE one in maybe our world but maybe not who the fuck knows when madness reigns?!!) NECROMANCY CHOOSE YOUR OWN POSSIBLY EXCITING BUT MAYBE NOT EVENT sections...MORE ephemera! I, your humble benighted servant of the Carrion Oak, have been scanning by hand all the weird and possibly DARKLY EDIFYING public domain engravings I can find (I've bought like 8 books of them) so that is of course time-consuming but what do we have to do with our time anyway besides withering triumphantly in the face of death's implacable approach?  
 
So yeah this book is becoming a kaleidoscope story of weird moments, a corpse stitched together from the stolen meat of dreams and I think that is very appropriate for a book of HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA...a world we all built together through beautiful terrors recognizing something familiar in each other. 
 
I can't wait to share it with you and I promise to not give it into your sweaty, fevered hands until it is exactly the BOOK YOU DESERVE dear Cold of Flame and Dark and True of Heart. 
 
okay also...the preorder period will be ongoing until the book actually is printed so I would love it if you could continue to promote this campaign and tell everyone about it. The way Unbound works is really neat but it also depends on over funding for me the writer to get paid (the first 100% just pays for the book printing) so let's get the Abyss paid y'all. 
 
All the love and Teeth, 
Jordan Shiveley, 
Dread Singles

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A MAP FOR A LAND WE HAVE FELT WHISPERING BENEATH OUR SKIN SINCE THE DAY WE WERE BORN

KNIVES WE KNEW THE NAMES OF...KNIVES THAT ANSWERED BACK

THE FEAST IS SET BUT THE CELEBRANTS HAVE YET TO AWAKEN

THE LONG PATH THE SCYTHE TAKES TOWARD THE FEASTING TABLE

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