Ten plus years on this site and eighty posts, yet I browse it most weeks – and the advice here only contributed to one ex-girlfriend! But it is the positive threads and lifting advice I have stayed around for.

After six years of writing, I have a triumphant moment of my own to share. My book Closer Oceans was printed and is available for pre-order and ready for sale as ebook.

There’s a lot of focus on dystopian works, and while Closer Oceans has elements of it, I would like to think I’ve approached it with a utopian ambition.

The details are below, but the misc demographic according to the ‘shutting this down post’ are the same as my readership.

I will send anyone here the eBook for free if they DM me.

I do not want to see this place canned, even with the trend of threads in the last year or so. I am glad for it and being ten years older than when I joined, Closer Oceans will hopefully contribute to the same positive mentality of someone here at that time in their life.

Synopsis:

One needs to be an outsider to know how and when to escape.

Closer Oceans is the story of pursued young men escaping from a society of ennui to a militarised academy that is eight miles below the ocean’s surface and built within a dome. Fulfilling work and honest living are its promises away from the automation and bureaucracy above, with literature being its most valued resource; mixed with a potion called ichor, books can become weapons and survival tools when chewed.

The potential utopia is being distanced though: centuries of scoundrels have rigged its structure in order to coerce the labouring and keep the best lands and organic foods for themselves. A new scheme rumours to consolidate their corruption even further. Made outcasts on arrival and unwilling to conform, the young men search for how to liberate the Dome.

The optimism of youth keeping its head up is the force majeure against oldness’ bequeathed doom; Closer Oceans answers youth’s call for help when the heaviest decrepitude is all around it. Solutions to artificial intelligence, governance, the search for freedom, persecution and the individual human condition are all found within its voyage.

Official website:www.closeroceans.com

Available here also:https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/clo...ton/1143236364

I am self-publishing and do not have access to the network of traditional publishers. So I would be grateful to anyone who shared a link to the website or recommended Closer Oceans after reading it.

Your book will be canceled for even being associated with this place.

Advertises a book on a site with the most illiterate people on earth.

Good luck though OP ,hope it’s good seller. Wouldn’t Amazon be a good place to sell your book though

In for later.

Congrats. The feeling of finishing a creative project is unmatched.

These

Congrats OP.

If I could read, I would.

"One needs to be an outsider to know how and when to escape."

True words. I have finally come to that realization many years into my life.

Lol I wouldn't attend a class run by some of the accounts here for sure. Thank you and I'm for one not selling with Amazon because of their impact on small bookshops.

If there is anything sincere about that post, I view you as a very strong person and am kind of jelly in that aspect. Good for you srs. For a number of reasons.

Just an opinion.

Thank you. Having the finished book in hand is a great feeling, as someone who enjoys reading so much especially.

We burn books on here OP, not read them.

Wish you legit luck with your book bruh! Also, let's see how long it takes for your book to end up on library genesis

Thank you srs. Even with your sig line's statement ha

3.99?? That was your first mistake...it should be bout 3 fiddy.

I hadn't heard of Library Genesis until now. Seems more for comics and journals.

Thank you

Lmfao ,post of the month award goes to

I missed a beat on that one lol. I will say that the term 'The miscellaneables.' is in the book though.

Well, maybe i'll have to give it a go. Now i know 2 miscers who got published.....lets hope you live up to Myron Gain's legacy

https://www.amazon.com/Cucked-Tradie.../dp/B08DBSVPQ4

Cool just picked up your Ebook and will read it tonight.

There's a heritage of notoriety here, but alas we're in different genres

Cliffs?

No way I am going to read a book.

I struggled with the "Dick & Jane" book series, this sound a bit over my head.

I'm glad, that's great. I sent you a pm with some info. Thank you

Congrats on finishing your book! You should post a link in the 52 books in 52 weeks thread.

https://forum.obnoxiousbrutes.com/showt...hp?t=182230483

Not sure if that would be frowned upon or not. Maybe others who post there can weigh in?

when did you learn to read?

My mom read to us when we were little so pretty young, I had a head start. Always was ahead in reading/writing! Won spelling bees, was in the gifted program, and did AP English and all that.

Why would anyone have an issue with Amazon? If there were demand for small book stores, they would still be in business

Good idea, I posted about it. Thank you.

Great job. Very impressive.

Just my opinion: I started reading the first chapter on your site and justified text is less comfortable to read compared to left-aligned.