Madison Rye Progress

One month until Mitzvot arrives! To celebrate, please enjoy 50% off all four Post-Self ebooks, and as an added bonus, a remaster of one of the first pieces of Post-Self writing, Gallery Exhibition!

If you'd like to play through Gallery Exhibition on its own, you can do so here.

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Hey! I have a new book coming out on January 21st, Mitzvot! It's book 4 in the Post-Self cycle, but this snippet stands on its own reasonably well, so I figured I'd post it as a bit of a teaser.

Mitzvot won't be a standalone story, and relies on context from the first three books in the tetralogy. You can find all of those at the link above, where you can get paperbacks, ebooks, or read for free in the browser.

For context, the setting is a future of uploaded consciousnesses. This comes with pros and some cons. For instance, one is functionally immortal and can create copies of oneself at whim, and later merge them back in to have memories of their experiences. However, the complete inability to forget combined with that same immortality can be a little crazy-making.

"To be built to love is to be built to dissolve. It is to be built to unbecome. It is to have the sole purpose in life of falling apart all in the name of someone else.

"We all have a bit of that in us, do we not? You find yourself at a bar or maybe in some class somewhere, you look over, and there they are, right? You look over and you maybe catch their eye and you come undone at the seams. You fall into those big, beautiful eyes --- for when you are built to love, every eye that catches yours is the most beautiful thing of all time --- and you begin to flake away at the edges.

Alright, everyone, time to show off! Share/comment with something you're proud of having done this past year, big or small!

Wrote and Kickstarted book #9, Mitzvot.

Despite long COVID nonsense and many problems at work, I was still able to finish the project, and the Kickstarter to fund the cover wound up hitting 941% funding, which was overwhelming. Still, it led to an amazing project involving five illustrators, a podcast episode, a ttrpg, and an anthology of stories set in the universe by other authors.

With all that has happened with health and work, it's kinda easy to forget that this was actually a big thing I actually managed to do.

"You can't call them mad and then just leave 'interesting' hanging in there."

"Of course I can, but I love you, so I will not."

Lovely interior illustration for Toledot by @cupsofjade

You can find Toledot at https://toledot.post-self.ink