I developed this website for my friend James. He was a coach of mine in the past, and continues to be my greatest muse. This site started as a hard-typed HTML website featuring a few dozen of Jim's articles, but quickly blossomed into a behemoth. In an effort to hedge the tidal wave of content, I put together a very simple content-management-system where he could post on his own. It started there in 2010. A year later we sold our first PDF.

Why this weird website and not Wordpress or Blogspot, etc? I thought building a CMS from the ground-up would be a good opportunity to ply some computer skills I had, and create a sandbox to learn new tricks. Jim preferred the ultra-simplicity of the backend I created, and dumped a lifetime of fiction and non-fiction work into it. At that point it was too late to turn back.

I didn't want a bloated mess of google adware, nor lean heavy on social media plugins, so I kept it lean. I wanted it to have a little personality - thats why I've efforted to make custom graphics as much as possible. I wanted it to be a place of free speech - which is why I moderate the comments and allow everything thru as long as it's not promoting violence. Fortunately our readership, while diverse, isn't aggressive, and I've never had to delete a message that wasn't spam.

In time the site permutated into a platform for producing electronic books (pdf, epub, html) out of his many serialized threads, or tags. Most of his work today is released here for free, first.

[We] also attempt to platform as many guest authors as we can, and are politically insensitive. A few of them have their own websites or channels, and we do our best to provide updates and links to them. If you want to be featured on this website, anonymously if you like, send an email.

Hopefully [we] can continue to produce and moderate this website. One day, it may be hosted on a toaster oven. If you'd like to help, please keep visiting the site, and consider:

• buying an E-book ($ goes to James)
• donating to James' PayPal
• contributing to the WebFund ($ goes to me)
• commenting on articles

If you're interested in getting help with your (web) project, email me!
If you want to talk about reading and trading books, email me!
If you want to train in contact martial arts including weapons, email me!
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