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Brooklyn To Mars: Volume One
Brooklyn To Mars about starting where you are and going someplace extraordinary. It's about doing what you love and making incredible things happen. Originally started as a limited edition magazine for artists, entrepreneurs and lone wolves, this compilation contains Brooklyn To Mars issue 1-5.
Including:
Issue One: Getting Started
Issue Two: Minimalism
Issue Three: Will Power
Issue Four: Karoshi
Issue Five: Self-Talk
The works have been revised and improved. Now for the first time, all previously out-of-print issues are available in one convenient book. Featuring brand new content and an introduction from the author.
Brooklyn To Mars praise:
"I read it cover to cover and loved every piece." -Steven Pressfield (author of The War of Art)
"Markus Almond is one of my favorite online writers. He produces consistently great content." -Joshua Fields Millburn (Best-selling author. TheMinimalists.com)
"[Brooklyn To Mars] zine went straight to my heart." -Danielle La Porte (Best-selling author)
"Really beautiful and special." -Bianca Barragan (The Last Bookstore, LA)
"It's Great!" -Gerard Way (Lead vocalist and co-founder of My Chemical Romance)
"Brooklyn To Mars – Issue Four is one of the best reads about life and success that I have read in a long time. You should all go to brooklyntomars.com and order this issue." -Rob Dyrdek (MTV star)
Including:
Issue One: Getting Started
Issue Two: Minimalism
Issue Three: Will Power
Issue Four: Karoshi
Issue Five: Self-Talk
The works have been revised and improved. Now for the first time, all previously out-of-print issues are available in one convenient book. Featuring brand new content and an introduction from the author.
Brooklyn To Mars praise:
"I read it cover to cover and loved every piece." -Steven Pressfield (author of The War of Art)
"Markus Almond is one of my favorite online writers. He produces consistently great content." -Joshua Fields Millburn (Best-selling author. TheMinimalists.com)
"[Brooklyn To Mars] zine went straight to my heart." -Danielle La Porte (Best-selling author)
"Really beautiful and special." -Bianca Barragan (The Last Bookstore, LA)
"It's Great!" -Gerard Way (Lead vocalist and co-founder of My Chemical Romance)
"Brooklyn To Mars – Issue Four is one of the best reads about life and success that I have read in a long time. You should all go to brooklyntomars.com and order this issue." -Rob Dyrdek (MTV star)
214 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 23, 2014
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June 11, 2014
As if by chance, a title — “Brooklyn to Mars” — comes into view. I imagine the author, Markus Almond, calling out, urging me closer with a wave of his hand. I sit and read as though Almond is speaking to me, telling me what this book means to him and what it should mean to me — to all of us.
“This book is for you, laborer of love, seeker of art, lover of songs, farmer of thoughts or ideas that need to take over the world. I believe that right now, more than ever, anything is possible in your life.” In only a matter of sentences, the mood has shifted. In our lives, the despair or uncertainty we beheld, lifted.
These are the very same words that led Almond to where he is today — from humble beginnings to the publication of his first major work, which is steadily garnering all the attention. Based in New York City, Almond has spent much of his professional life as a musician, writer, and do-it-yourself publisher. The work, which is a compilation of previous issues of his same-titled magazine, is evidence of Almond’s varied artistry. A particularly keen wordsmith, Almond also seeks to uphold the rare literary form that is zine publication.
It is important to note that Almond’s past zines appeared electronically and as limited print editions, all of which were typed and assembled by hand with sweat, scissors, blood, glue, and tears. The current compilation, however, only exists electronically, but does encompass all five zine issues: “Getting Started” (I), “Minimalism” (II), “Will Power” (III), “Karoshi” (IV), and “Self-Talk” (V). In prose style, most of the pieces are brief, upfront and, above all, powerful. Much of the collection offers optimism in what seems to be a sometimes lackluster world.
More often than not, Almond seeks to reinforce our happiness by placing the responsibility of both the good and the bad in our own hands. Almond speaks through the pages as though he is our oldest and wisest friend, giving us advice along the way: “Without passion, you’re not going to make it. Don’t be afraid to set your heart on fire for something you believe in. And don’t be afraid to disregard that which does not get your blood boiling in the morning.”
“Brooklyn to Mars” is a pivotal and life-changing book that leaves readers with the most important message of all — that small beginnings can lead to extraordinary endings, should we be willing to take the first step.
- Kacy Muir, The Weekender / Times Leader / Songs of Sirens
“This book is for you, laborer of love, seeker of art, lover of songs, farmer of thoughts or ideas that need to take over the world. I believe that right now, more than ever, anything is possible in your life.” In only a matter of sentences, the mood has shifted. In our lives, the despair or uncertainty we beheld, lifted.
These are the very same words that led Almond to where he is today — from humble beginnings to the publication of his first major work, which is steadily garnering all the attention. Based in New York City, Almond has spent much of his professional life as a musician, writer, and do-it-yourself publisher. The work, which is a compilation of previous issues of his same-titled magazine, is evidence of Almond’s varied artistry. A particularly keen wordsmith, Almond also seeks to uphold the rare literary form that is zine publication.
It is important to note that Almond’s past zines appeared electronically and as limited print editions, all of which were typed and assembled by hand with sweat, scissors, blood, glue, and tears. The current compilation, however, only exists electronically, but does encompass all five zine issues: “Getting Started” (I), “Minimalism” (II), “Will Power” (III), “Karoshi” (IV), and “Self-Talk” (V). In prose style, most of the pieces are brief, upfront and, above all, powerful. Much of the collection offers optimism in what seems to be a sometimes lackluster world.
More often than not, Almond seeks to reinforce our happiness by placing the responsibility of both the good and the bad in our own hands. Almond speaks through the pages as though he is our oldest and wisest friend, giving us advice along the way: “Without passion, you’re not going to make it. Don’t be afraid to set your heart on fire for something you believe in. And don’t be afraid to disregard that which does not get your blood boiling in the morning.”
“Brooklyn to Mars” is a pivotal and life-changing book that leaves readers with the most important message of all — that small beginnings can lead to extraordinary endings, should we be willing to take the first step.
- Kacy Muir, The Weekender / Times Leader / Songs of Sirens
June 14, 2014
This book is amazing and as positive as you can get.
January 9, 2015
Dive bars
Doing what Markus said because it earned the review with flying stars. If you like your life to be changed you will read it.
Doing what Markus said because it earned the review with flying stars. If you like your life to be changed you will read it.
June 1, 2016
Best motivational book I ever read!
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