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The novel version of Parabolis in ebook format will be available on Amazon from March 1-5 for free. Check it out!

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The novel version of Parabolis in ebook format will be available on Amazon from March 1-5 for free. Check it out!

“He moved unlike anything Dale had ever seen, like a figure from a feverish nightmare, deliberate and menacing.”

Check out visual artist Robin Har’s interpretation of the Vengian from Parabolis:

Impressive work. Send us your illustrations of your favorite characters from Parabolis via FB or email them directly to us at eddie @ parabolis [dot] com, and we’ll post them!

Our solo art show was a success. Special thanks to Robert Brown and Jeremy Cross over at Night Gallery for hosting, curating and promoting our show.

Also, check out our Q&A with The Front Page Online leading up to it.

Check it out:

http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/art...

We’ve got an art show coming up August 2 for Santa Ana Artwalk at the Night Gallery Fine Arts. Curt’s artwork from Parabolis will be featured. If you’re in the neighborhood, stop by for some refreshments and a chat.

Music is by far the most powerful medium as far as I’m concerned. More powerful than visual? That’s a pretty tight race but I’d still put my money on music.

I enjoy a decent spread of music. But not everything I enjoy is conducive to long hours of pensive, deep immersion into daydreams. When I paint, write, or introspectively gaze at my shoes, I usually imbibe a particular cocktail of jazz, movie scores, trip-hop, and… well, shoegaze. It gets me in the right state of mind without distracting me.

I made no exception while writing Parabolis.

I’d often close my eyes, up the volume, and visualize the setting–the temperature in the air, the scent, the ambient murmuring of some distant crowd, the cinematic scenery.

If you’re wondering how I made my way to Parabolis, here’s a sample playlist to guide you.

Sigur Ros – “Med Sud I Eyrum”

Yann Tiersen – “Deja Loin”

Blue Sky Black Death – “And Stars, Ringed”

John Murphy – “Adagio in D Minor” AKA “Sunshine”

Patrick O’Hearn – “Beyond This Moment”

Zucchero feat. Miles Davis – “Dune Mosse”

Blackmill – “In the Night of Wilderness”

Moby – “God Moving Over the Face of the Waters”

John Coltrane – “I’m Old Fashioned”

Amethystium – “Outro”

This month, we’re offering 5 free signed copies of Parabolis with postcards and stickers on Goodreads. Don’t miss out!

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Goodreads Book Giveaway







Parabolis



by Eddie Han

Giveaway ends February 06, 2014.

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During Comikaze, 80% of the people that stopped by our table were designers or had some design/artistic background. As a work of visual art, Parabolis is consistently met with immediate approval. And we hoped as much. After all, we didn’t just print out the manuscript and glue it to a spine.

We spent months mulling over every detail of its arrangement–what size it should be, whether or not there’s enough negative space to give the eyes rest, how a glossy vs matte finish might affect the reading experience, how the paper feels, the texture, the thickness, the font, serif or sans serif, Garamond or Georgia. Then there was color-correction, trapping issues, and a long list of typesetting hurdles Curt had to navigate in one hand while producing his best illustrations in the other.

Biased as I may be, I believe Parabolis can stand on the merits of its design alone. That was never in question. But does the narrative content warrant such meticulous thought and craftsmanship in its presentation? To our delight, the trickling feedback we’re getting so far has been encouraging. There’s a short list of growing fans assuring us its not just lipstick on a pig.

I’m not sharing this as a passive aggressive marketing pitch. Or maybe I am. But also because this is part of the creative process–a discovery we’re making. I can only imagine that the joy you experience dancing alone in your room to your favorite song is different from hearing the raucous applause following a moving stage performance (I wouldn’t know either way since I only dance when I’m drunk).

Likewise, Parabolis is on stage. I’m just hoping this is the beginning of one of those terrible slow clap scenes.

~250 copies of Parabolis have already been sold or awarded to our backers. That’s ~250 out of 2000 copies of the limited first edition. That’s ~250 pairs of eyes, scrutinizing the song of my heart. And after all those hours, days, years, spent hunched over a computer, scribbling on napkins and notebooks, piecing this thing together, this story could just as well be The Room of books… only without the cult following. I wouldn’t know. I’ve been married to this thing too long to see it with any objectivity. But it’s out there, circulating like a selfie I can never take back.

“You’re tearing me apart, Lisa!”

After re-reading the novelzine in its final form just a few weeks ago, I noticed errors that had managed to slip through the cracks. I don’t want to bring attention to them but they’re there screaming at me: “This is worse than the way your voice sounds on a recording!”

Ideally, those of you who have a copy won’t even notice them because you’ll be so immersed in the story. Ideally, those of you who do will think, “These are indicators of an authentic limited first edition copy,” and you’ll see it for the collector’s item it could be.

If we ever manage to move the remaining ~1750 copies, you can be sure we’ll give it a proper polish before we order another print run. The real question then is, “Errors or no errors, is the story any good?”

I take that back. The real real question is, “Do I really want to know?”

And the answer to that is YES because if my heart is tone deaf, it shouldn’t be singing. So let us know what you think. Email us. Message us on Facebook. Call me. Maybe.