What is The Deepening?

Well, it’s a series of three book drafts–a marvelous supramundane space odyssey. And, long ago, I bought this domain to host the release of those books. But, publishing being what it has been for decades, the first book, a prequel of a series that precedes The Deepening books, never saw print. So the domain languished.

I’ve had offers to sell thedeepening.com–some nice and some ludicrous, ludicrous like the one this year by the folks who made that horrible D movie–but never felt like parting with it. So a couple of years ago I thought, okay, I’ll start an online glossy fiction magazine…which I did, with an ISSN and everything. What a GREAT BUNCH of stories by a GREAT BUNCH of authors we had…and no readers…except a few dedicated supporters and fiction writers wanting to scope out the ‘zine in order to get published in its pages.

When my eyesight as well as my bank account gave out, I tossed in the towel on the fiction magazine.

But it really bothered me that my very favorite entertainment, fiction reading, was losing ground, losing market share, in the entertainment world. It also bothered me that good books kept going unpublished. What to do? Well, it isn’t for lack of publishers or the ability to get books into hands of readers. It’s about getting readers’ (and non-readers’ attention.) So The Deepening, stage two, was conceived.

What was conceived? Something that was fun for me, not a lot of work (except for set-up, of course), and provided readers, authors, publisher–anyone, really–the means to promote a good fiction read–novel, short story, fiction magazine, hyperfiction… .

So, here we go. And if no authors come to promote their books, so be it. I read enough to fill its pages regularly, so you, our visitors, won’t have any reason not to check out the new articles here every week! Book mark it. It’s going to be exciting!

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