All About APOSTASY from Summary to Edit And Beyond
June 22, 2024
Continuing to work and revise, I’m working through the second half of the book - the most challenging half, with the most citations. It’s a lot, but I’m genuinely proud of what I’m doing. Click the picture to see the update on NaNoWriMo’s site with the current total word count for APOSTASY.
June 21, 2024
What the Heck is APOSTASY About, Anyway?
My book, APOSTASY, is a gritty examination of socially accepted dogma. It unflinchingly criticizes the religious influence on politics in the United States through a fantastic tale told from the perspective of a modern, and unwilling Virgin Mary.
Mary goes by her middle name, Sam, and works as a handy-person at a local inn when the past comes calling in the form of religious zealots having come to the pacific northwest. As much as she doesn’t want to believe what she’d been told as a child, or what her own body is telling her, Sam’s worst nightmare is confirmed with Gabriel delivers the annunciation and she comes face to face with God himself as he wishes to be seen.
Quick, clever, and unwilling to allow the patriarchal deity to take what he wants from her, and use her to commit genocide in the form of modern Revelations. Instead, Sam takes back her life and sets out with one simple goal: to kill God.
Far from a simple feat, Sam finds herself making unlikely friends along the way, performing feats she’d never thought possible, and even facing the reality of her own death for her endeavor. One thing is for sure: Sam will not stop until God is stopped.
APOSTASY is a critical allegory of the crimes of the church at large, and the subsequent problems in the world because of it. It is not a book for the faint of heart, nor is it a work for the easily offended religious person. The church has a great deal to answer to, and Sam is holding their feat to the fires of Hell itself.
June 20, 2024
In November of 2021, I put fingers to keyboard and wrote the first draft of APOSTASY for NaNoWriMo. Since that time, I have edited, revised, done further research, and I am finally doing the final edit that I will do before turning the manuscript over to an editor.
It’s exciting, terrifying, and all around stressful.
It’ll be updating my progress here specifically, but feel free to look around, click through the quotes some of my characters have said that I’ve found entertaining, the summary of APOSTASY itself (maybe it’s something you’ll want to read, maybe not - it’s okay either way), and other updates and information I post.
Thank you!
Tosh