There are clarifying moments that I am so thankful for in life; lessons learned and lessons repeated. After having published my book, Project NIMROD (available for purchase HERE) I struggled with how to get the word out. As many of you know, I have a minimal online presence. I consulted with several people whom I revere about how best to promote my book effectively. More often than not, the advice was to utilize social media. Ugh, I thought to myself. Isn’t Substack enough?

I logged into my desktop and created an X account. I felt a little shiver of disgust and no small measure of what might have been shame while entering my details. Now, I certainly don’t mean that anyone else should experience this revulsion and resentment for having an X account. I’m sure that it serves many people quite well to promote their work. My own distaste for social media is mine to own, and I judge not, lest I be judged.

One of the reasons I was loathe to participate in the X-space is my own addictive personality. I was rather concerned that I would be sucked into the vortex of negativity and “engagement”. I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that it pained me to engage at all. It appears that my fear was entirely unfounded.

I paid to have a premium account in the hope that I would increase my reach. To be fair, it was a lower-tier premium. I’m unsure about whether it had any benefit at all. Perhaps I’m just too ignorant of how to properly leverage my presence effectively. In any event, I found out very quickly that my patience for having to try and generate traction was self-limiting. It may very likely not be a systemic problem.

One of the most interesting things about the experience, was that I seemed to be primarily reaching a certain subset of the population that surprised me. It appears as though young, beautiful women of various ethnicities are quite drawn to my work. Now, either I am much more rakishly handsome than I know myself to be, or my profile was immediately swarmed by bots. My money is on the latter.

This only made me smile as it felt like validation for some of the elements of my book. The Integrated population of Viveka Society are so entangled with the virtual world that they are essentially unable to differentiate between the real and the virtual. This is actually one of the anchoring principles being addressed in narrative form throughout the story.

All that is to say, that I will not be pursuing social media avenues for promoting Project NIMROD. However much slower it might make the process, I am content to allow a much more organic growth. I will be appearing on podcasts as a guest to try and carve out a little attention. I’ve already done two shows with Terry Wolfe HERE and David Gardener HERE. I will continue to spread the word through local resources and hope that people are kind enough to share my work with others. What I would ask of all of you wonderful people, is to please help me out with this.

If you are someone whop subscribes to my Substack and enjoyed my podcast, I would humbly request that you aid me in garnering attention to my work. Project NIMROD is what happens when the questions I’ve been asking on my podcast are no longer theoretical. The novel lets people experience what may await them if they don’t start to challenge the narratives being promulgated by the powers that should not be, as James Corbett often calls them.

I used the podcast to analyze ideas. My fiction pressure tests them. We experience the world in a series of stories, however logical and systematic we believe ourselves to be. Our brains are not like computers as some would have you believe. They weave tapestries of feelings, facts, and preconceptions. Project NIMROD is about what happens when people stop asking moral questions about what we ought or ought not to do because a system has already answered them for us.

Please consider sharing this with others and supporting me in my work. If you have already purchased the book and enjoyed it, please consider leaving a FIVE STAR review on Amazon (HERE). The reviews really help with overcoming the algorithm and promoting the book to new people who would likely not be exposed to it.

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