The Path to Loss (Approaching Infinity Book 4) (37 page)

This book has taken roughly fourteen months to write, which was longer than anticipated, especially when I had such a strong start. But here it is. It will essentially function as a bridge between trilogies, the first of which should already be known to you. The second trilogy is actually where I started fourteen years ago. It was a silly attempt to create buzz with a website for a completely fictional TV show I was selling as real: Skeleton General Skull Kaiser! Needless to say, the world is still ignorant of Skull Kaiser.

Starting in the middle can be very interesting, but we always have to go back and tell how everything started, right? Otherwise, where’s your investment? Anyway, while I’m very pleased to have this volume out (and you reading it), I can’t express enough how gratifying it is to have come this far with four novels versus numerous episode summaries of a nonexistent show. I still have the rest of the story to tell, at least in a proper format and in proper order, and I think that I’ve proven that I’m probably way more than ready to tell it, but that was a challenge for me for a long time (the first novel didn’t come out until 2011).

Life presents obstacles at every turn. There are countless reasons why I could have stopped writing, but never why I
should
have stopped writing. I don’t know how other writers work. I don’t know that I could emulate anyone else’s method, which is not to say that I have a method per se, but as haphazard as mine is, I was able to ride it to now. I guess what I’m trying to say is this: If there’s one person reading this who has the kernel of an idea that refuses to die, I urge you to nurture it and never give up on it. It may take fourteen years for it to bear fruit, but once it does it’ll be yours and no one else’s.

Chris Eisenlauer
March, 2014

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