Join My Cult - Original Falcon Press

actually went so far as to threaten my life. (I take this as
the highest compliment.) When I wrote this book, I was
unsure it would ever be published, and certainly many
of my friends told me it would be for the better if it
wasn't. After it was accepted by New Falcon, I had
some hopes of it becoming a break-away cult hit.
In the end, it was neither of these, remaining that
odd book you might stumble across one day in the
corner of an independent book seller. A puzzling,
hilarious, train-wreck of an oddity.
I have come a long way since I wrote Join My
Cult!, and (I hope) have grown a great deal as an artist
and writer since. But there is an intensity that comes
with the blind, youthful enthusiasm of a project like this
that I doubt I could replicate. New Falcon never
properly edited the first edition, and in retrospect, I'm
not sure I can blame them. There are many things in this
text that seem like grammatical mistakes, that are
intentional (particularly changes between tense and
point of view with psychotic frequency), and I can only
imagine they gave it a go and threw their hands up at
the prospect. I occasionally consider giving it a
thorough edit myself, but that thought is quickly
washed away when I plunge into the text. This edition
does have some minor edits from the original which
saw its way into print, and you will find some new
additions in the appendix, but there is little I could see
changing without possibly disrupting the oddly
symmetrical whole of this book, which at first glance
looks a lot like total chaos.
So I'm offering it for free now, warts and all, to
whomever wants to come along for the ride- and I
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