Month: May 2013

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A Writer Goes Home

The book My Babylon is set in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the city I lived in for ten years. I miss Kalamazoo, terribly. It’s a college town, making it liberal, annoying, accepting, and diverse, all at the same time. I got a chance to spend a few hours there on Monday, and did a quick author’s tour of some of the locations I wrote about.

Of the Kalamazoo landmarks mentioned in the book, the most famous would be the caretaker’s home in Mountain Home Cemetery. It’s where the character Ezra lives and where he hosts his OTO rituals. A few urban legends surround the house. Many people I know claim to have visited it. Claim that the house can be rented, and that they were friends with the people that lived there. This came with the obligatory ghost stories complete with Ouija board contact and apparitions. I don’t know if any of that is true, but when I lived in Kzoo, it certainly looked as if someone lived there.

I’ll post some more pics if anyone’s interested. Remember, you can download a copy of My Babylon – Book One: Body, for free today (Tuesday, May 28, 2013).

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Want to help an indie author? Book One of my series of novellas, My Babylon is free today on Amazon Kindle. Just downloading a FREE copy helps move it up on the Amazon rankings so others can find it.

Even better, please leave an honest review of the book on Amazon after you read it. Indie authors can’t afford to pay the established review sites to read their books. (That’s right, many “respected” journals of review expect them to pay them to do a review, how dishonest is that?)

When you help indie artists, you take away the power of the media conglomerates that control what we see and hear. You get a fresh perspective that may have otherwise been overlooked. I know my book would not appeal to a big publisher. They would never take the risk on something so different.

Today, you can do it for free.

Please reblog this so others can see.

Thank you to everyone who has helped me spread the word.

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Matt Hansen

Ave Babalon

scrollofthoth:

Want to help an indie author? Book One of my series of novellas, My Babylon is free today on Amazon Kindle. Just downloading a FREE copy helps move it up on the Amazon rankings so others can find it.

Even better, please leave an honest review of the book on Amazon after you read it. Indie authors can’t afford to pay the established review sites to read their books. (That’s right, many “respected” journals of review expect them to pay them to do a review, how dishonest is that?)

When you help indie artists, you take away the power of the media conglomerates that control what we see and hear. You get a fresh perspective that may have otherwise been overlooked. I know my book would not appeal to a big publisher. They would never take the risk on something so different.

Today, you can do it for free.

Please reblog this so others can see.

Thank you to everyone who has helped me spread the word.

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A version for tumblr that can be read without opening a new tab, since plenty of people would scroll past this story otherwise.

The bravest woman on Earth.

FOREVER REBLOG.

does anyone know who illustrated this?  

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Ave Babalon

OH MY GOD UTENA HAS BEEN SYNCRITIZED WITH BABALON!

The roses, the love story, the battles against the establishment, Oh yeah, Utena is a scion of Babalon.

I need to go back and watch that series again.

We should totally do that.

Downloading it right now. I watched it so long ago, I know I missed half the symbolism. Did you know the subtitle of the Utena movie was Adolescence Apocalypse?