Welcome to "The Journey"

Hello, and welcome to my first online book.

I will start publishing the book proper tomorrow night. For now, i wanted to issue some cautions and ground rules.

This is a book for adults. I do not mean porn, although it does contain some fairly strong sexual content. It contains drug, alcohol and tobacco references. It contains "bad" words. It contains violence.

In other words, it resembles real life.

Now, the ground rules...

I am publishing this book in this format because i want to be read, damn it! I think that i am a good writer. People that i share my work with tell me that they enjoy it, and i'm tired of waiting for an agent or publisher to recognize that. I would like to make money off of my writing, but so far it ain't happening. The next best thing is to be read and to receive feedback. Like a lot of writers, i have a rather large ego, and the safest thing is to just keep it calm by stroking it.

This work is my copyright, and no one else can use it any time for any reason without my written permission. I hope to publish this book once completed, provided that i haven't shot myself in the foot by weblishing it. (With that in mind, any agents or publishers who happen across this and would like to represent or publish me based on its strengths, please let me know.

I love feedback, but please keep the feedback civil. I will delete rudeness. Also, please do not send suggestions for things to happen in the story. If i realize that's happening, i will delete the feedback unread. This is my story, not a group effort.

If you live in one of the towns mentioned, please feel free to post a WOO HOO FOR {insert town name here} but please do not send me corrections or minutia about your town. I am going for real town names, but everything else is more or less fictional. More or less.

If you enjoy this story, please leave a note letting me know, and send the URL to your friends who enjoy fiction. If you don't, then by all means stop reading. My mind criticizes me far worse than any of you could, so please don't feel that you need to drop a note that says "you suck". Just stop reading and back slowly away from the blog.

All righty. Tomorrow night begins "The Journey".

Thanks in advance for reading and enjoy.

Randal