Dear Everyone,

Please bear with me while I tell you a dark, sad tale. There was once a guy, me, who wrote a book called The Bigsmall. Over seven years he endured around a thousand rejections, literally. Along the way, he received a personal letter from the editor of City Lights with encouragement and praise. A publisher offered to publish the book if he took the cuss words out of his work, so he refused. He received personal praise from over 40 agents, many of whom assured him someone would pick up the book. One of these went so far as to refer to it as, "a great rewrite of Goethe's Faust." A successful and talented editor edited his book for free and a established Bay Area critic offered his assistance for years, both out of the goodness of their hearts and appreciation of the author's work. Despite all this and praise from every corner of the industry, the last agent was queried, the last manuscript was mailed, and the last rejections were received.

Now, I don't know for certain why they wouldn't publish The Bigsmall, but I do know that it should be published. Based on the reactions of readers and the story above, I can tell you it is an important piece of literature and should be available to the public. So that's what I did. I signed up with a print-on-demand publisher, a subsidiary of Amazon, and got that mofo up and out there. At first I was doing it for a sense of closure, but the book came out so well, I wanted to let everyone in on it.

In fact, I don't just want to let everyone in on it--I want you to please click on the link below and buy the book. Please don't only buy the book--buy as many copies as you can. Give them to friends, give them to family, hand them to strangers and make some new friends. If you don't like reading, buy some copies anyway and decorate your home with them. You'll have a hell of a time finding a cooler cover to grace your bookcase. If enough copies sell, I may even get the opportunity to finish The Mandrake Hotel, the new novel I started. So, please help me be able to continue my work.

https://www.createspace.com/3348649

The second thing I'd like to ask of you is to send this message on to ALL your friends and neighbors. I'm talking everybody. Please add a personal plea with your message in order to reinforce the plea in this message. Post it on blogs, send it through Facebook, send it through Myspace, wheat paste it in the streets, paint the town Bigsmall. The fact is, as a larger community we've got to start taking art more seriously, take it away from the clutches of corporations and marketing firms who are apparently deciding what you can and can't read and reclaim it as people. It's a real problem. For instance, Random House just killed a book on Mohammed's wife because they thought it would be too inflammatory. Corporations, corpus, corpse. That's not us--we're living, breathing people for godsake. And yes, I realize the irony that it is a giant corporation that is allowing me to publish my book. Well, where would we be without irony?

The third thing I'd like to request is that, after you've read the book, go on Amazon and rate it and post your feelings on it. However, if you don't like it or have negative things to say, write your feelings on a piece of paper and burn it. It'll help.

Perhaps you think this isn't the big inspiring message that you'd like to forward to everyone you know and don't know. But, I'll tell you what is inspiring--The Bigsmall. One agent who claimed to like the "unusual" and "edgy" wrote me back after reading it and said that while that might be true, he wanted something, "at least remotely based in reality." Well, I'll tell you right now that the entire book is nonfiction except for three pages, or so. So, it will blow your mind. It's the real deal, and that is inspiring. Also, social and political change begin when our mind changes with new thoughts and ideas, and I guarantee you've never read anything like The Bigsmall. And that is inspiring, too.

One cautionary note: There is a very early version of The Bigsmall floating around out there that was never supposed to have been printed. The cover is blue. If you want to buy it and do some comparison or something, that's fine, but don't get them mixed up. Plus, you should know I'd receive nothing from the sale.

Please don't wait! Click the link above and buy The Bigsmall while the notion is still fresh in your mind!

Peace, beloved Everyone. Peace, peace, peace, and thank you so much.

LoveNate

Nate Metzker
www.natemetzker.com
www.myspace.com/natemetzker

Title: The Bigsmall
ISBN: 9781438269368
Description:

At four years old, Thomas Heinrich has a dream in which he is killed by the Devil.  At nineteen, an invisible force pushes him, first to drive 2,000 miles to live in his car in New Orleans, then to move to San Sebastian, Spain.  There, a strange, schizophrenic madness starts to consume him.  Against the backdrop of  political turmoil and violence in the Basque country, among beautiful Swedes, his compatriot, Hob, and a far-off love, Nina, Thomas realizes the dream from his childhood is coming true.  He is forced to stop the running that has consumed him for years and confront his deepest fear.

Often compared to Goethe’s Faust as well as the writings of Jack Kerouak, The Bigsmall is a uniquely crafted novel. The beautifully rendered prose and inspired structure give us real insight into the nature of the mind and human existence by bringing our deepest subconscious to the surface, illustrating the inherently perforated line between thoughts and reality.

Nate Metzker is an author and singer/songwriter who lives in East Harlem in New York City.