Jonathan Kieran

I owe explanations to no one in this mortal coil and even though I am often enthusiastically rife with explanations about a variety of issues and subjects, I tend not to embrace the same verve when it comes to explaining my art or my creative process.

On this one occasion, I shall make a pseudo-exception.

I have been maintaining this blog for fourteen years. I started it only to promote my written work in a world wherein “written word” would, as a medium, be beaten subsequently against a rock for the next fourteen years like old clothing abused by a rabid Lidia Bastianich excoriating changes in the culinary landscape … when the original, real stuff is still just spectacular.

The pithy and frivolous posts I have offered on this site for the past few years (bad album covers, ridiculous religious fanatics, etc.) have been offered because I DO NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT IMPRESSING FOOLS, ANYMORE, with quality content.

Don’t get me wrong: my pithy remarks and slogans are often sassy and sardonic in the appropriate ways, but these are all mere toss-offs.

Blog “counsellors” would recommend that I cultivate a bigger audience by sharing free, significant portions of my original work with potential readers.

In reply to this trend I tender a rather forceful, existentially powered FUCK OFF.

If one in the creative arts gives-away material for free, kiss dignity goodbye.

My site is maintained by posting irrelevant crap that requires minor wit. It feeds the disgusting search engine algorithms and keeps them fresh when I DO have a work of superior quality about to launch.

That is, indeed, the present case.

My new novel will appear in late May. It is an exceptional, harrowing, entertaining, and possibly even “heirloom worthy” work of quality.

There is not a great deal of quality in the realm of indie publishing these days. Quality readers (perhaps as a result) grow fewer and farther between, apace.

I am the exception and my readers will prove the same.

Not a paragraph or sentence or word shall be given away “for free.” I don’t care if only ten people buy the new novel.

If something is given away for free in any marketplace, it is the equivalent of shit, even food.

This being said, I wanted to explain the realities (at least as I see them) for the record.

Don’t give your soul “for free” to the ignorant and feckless.

That’s why cheesy, trash-worthy pop songs are written.

Cultivate artistic faith, for I shall give excellent work worthy to pass down to your offspring.

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[ THE WEDNESDAY BOX, a dark fable by Jonathan Kieran is slated for international release May 19, 2026 ]

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