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8-9 Act Accordingly by Colin Wright
35 7 or 8 More Ways to End the World by Colin Wright
10-11 Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus
36-37 Simplicity: Essays by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus
12-13 Iceland India Interstate by Colin Wright
38-39 Coffee with the Other Man by Colin Wright
14-15 My Exile Lifestyle by Colin Wright
40-41 A Day in the Life of a Minimalist by Joshua Fields Millburn
2-7 Everything That Remains by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus
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34 7 or 8 Ways to End the World by Colin Wright
42-43 Minimalism: Essential Essays by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus
18-19 Brand-Changing Day by Shawn Mihalik
44 Chapbook Volume 1 by Asymmetrical Press
20-21 Real Powers: Part One by Colin Wright
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22 Real Powers: Part Two by Colin Wright 23 Real Powers: Part Three by Colin Wright 24-25 As a Decade Fades by Joshua Fields Millburn 26-27 The Flute Player by Shawn Mihalik 28-29 Days After the Crash by Joshua Fields Millburn 30-31 Falling While Sitting Down by Joshua Fields Millburn
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About Asymmetrical Press Asymmetrical Press is a publishing company operated in Missoula, Montana, founded by three bestselling independent authors. Our overarching objective is simple: we want to improve the overall quality of indie publishing—to raise the tide, to lift all boats. No longer should independent publishing carry a negative connotation. Like indie music and indie films, we want to make indie publishing cool, better, desirable to readers.
About the Founders Colin Wright is an author, entrepreneur, and full-time traveler who moves to a new country every four months based on the votes of his readers. Originally from the Bay Area but brought up in Missouri, Colin has written fifteen books, many of which have been bestsellers. He maintains a blog at ExileLifestyle.com and publishes a twice-monthly writing collection called Exiles. Joshua Fields Millburn is an author, writing instructor, public speaker, and co-founder of TheMinimalists.com. Born in Dayton, Ohio, Joshua currently lives in Missoula, Montana. He writes essays at The Minimalists and has written seven books, including his bestselling novel As a Decade Fades. Ryan Nicodemus is a full-time mentor, writer, public speaker, and co-founder of TheMinimalists.com. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Ryan currently lives in Missoula, Montana. He writes for The Minimalists and has co-authored three bestsellers.
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Praise for The Minimalists
“Like Henry David Thoreau, but with Wi-Fi.” —Boston Globe
“Paring down, branching out.” —Chicago Tribune
“A better life, by having fewer possessions.” —Seattle Times
“Minimalism has brought happiness to [these] two former executives.” —Vancouver Sun
“They just might give you a hug.” —Dayton Daily News
“Regaining control by limiting consumption and living more meaningful lives.” —Forbes
“The best way to find happiness is to get rid of almost everything.” —CBS This Morning
“Perhaps it’s a good time to sit back and look at how we can all live with less.” —USA Today
“Less has become so much more.… Let’s call it minimalism+.” —Elle Canada
“Minimalists make the most of living with very little.” —Chicago Sun-Times
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Available January 14, 2014
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Everything That Remains by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus
Twenty-something, suit-clad, and upwardly mobile, Joshua Fields Millburn thought he had everything anyone could ever want. Until he didn’t anymore. Blindsided by the loss of his mother and his marriage in the same month, Millburn started questioning every aspect of the life he had built for himself. Then, he accidentally discovered a lifestyle known as minimalism…and everything started to change. That was four years ago. Since, Millburn, now 32, has embraced simplicity. In the pursuit of looking for something more substantial than compulsory consumption and the broken American Dream, he jettisoned most of his material possessions, paid off loads of crippling debt, and walked away from his six-figure career. So, when everything was gone, what was left? Not a how-to book, but a why-to book, Everything That Remains is the touching, surprising story of what happened when one young man decided to let go of everything and begin living more deliberately. Heartrending, uplifting, and deeply personal, this engrossing memoir is peppered with insightful (and often hilarious) interruptions by Ryan Nicodemus, Millburn’s best friend of twenty years.
Available January 14, 2014 232 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $15 978 1 938793 18 9 Self-Help / Memoir
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About the Authors Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus have garnered an audience of more than 2 million readers at TheMinimalists.com, where they write about living a meaningful life with less stuff. They are the bestselling authors of five books and have spoken at Harvard Business School, SXSW, World Domination Summit, TEDxWhitefish, and many other organizations, schools, and conferences. They write and speak about a wide array of topics, from simple living and pursuing your passion, to health, relationships, writing, publishing, social media, personal growth, and contribution. Joshua and Ryan left their six-figure corporate careers at age 30 and went on to become well-known authors and speakers. The Minimalists has been featured on CBS This Morning, ABC, NBC, FOX, NPR, CBC Radio, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, Elle Canada,Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Austin American-Statesman, Seattle Times,Toronto Star, Globe & Mail, Vancouver Sun, National Post, LA Weekly, Zen Habits, and various other outlets. Both born in 1981, they live in Missoula, Montana, by way of Dayton, Ohio. More information: asymmetrical.co/jfm & asymmetrical.co/ryan
Excerpt from the Book Imagine your life a year from now. Two years. Five. Imagine living a healthier life, one in which you don’t just look better, you feel better. Imagine a life with higher standards. Imagine a life with less clutter, less stuff, fewer distractions. What would it look like? Imagine your life with less—less stress, less debt, less discontent. What would it feel like? Now imagine your life with more—more time, more contribution, more elation. Imagine better, more interesting relationships. Imagine sharing meals and conversations and experiences and smiles with people who have similar interests and values and beliefs as you. Imagine growing with your peer group and your loved ones. 5
Tour Dates Book Preview Event 2013 November 13, 2013 — NYC
United States 2014 January 24 — Tampa, FL January 27 — Miami, FL January 30 — Orlando, FL February 1 — Jacksonville, FL February 5 — New Orleans, LA February 8 — Jackson, MS February 11 — Birmingham, AL February 15 — Atlanta, GA February 17 — Knoxville, TN February 20 — Nashville, TN February 21 — Memphis, TN February 23 — Little Rock, AR February 25 — Tulsa, OK February 26 — Oklahoma City, OK March 1 — Dallas, TX March 4 — Houston, TX March 7 — San Antonio, TX March 10 — Austin, TX March 13 — Albuquerque, NM March 16 — Tucson, AZ March 19 — Phoenix, AZ March 22 — Las Vegas, NV March 25 — San Diego, CA March 28 — Los Angeles, CA March 31 — San Jose, CA April 2 — San Francisco, CA April 6 — Sacramento, CA April 9 — Portland, OR April 12 — Boise, ID April 15 — Salt Lake City, UT
April 18 — Denver, CO April 21 — Omaha, NE April 22 — Des Moines, IA April 23 — Kansas City, MO April 25 — St. Louis, MO April 27 — Louisville, KY April 29 — Indianapolis, IN May 2 — Cincinnati, OH May 5 — Dayton, OH May 8 — Columbus, OH May 10 — Pittsburgh, PA May 14 — Charlotte, NC May 15 — Greenville, SC May 17 — Columbia, SC May 19 — Raleigh, NC May 21 — Virginia Beach, VA May 23 — Richmond, VA May 26 — Washington, DC May 28 — Baltimore, MD June 1 — Fargo, ND June 3 — Philadelphia, PA June 5 — New York City, NY June 7 — Hartford, CT June 9 — Providence, RI June 11 — Boston, MA June 13 — Portland, ME July 3 — Buffalo, NY July 5 — Rochester, NY July 7 — Cleveland, OH July 9 — Ann Arbor, MI July 11 — Grand Rapids, MI July 14 — Chicago, IL July 16 — Milwaukee, WI July 18 — Madison, WI July 20 — Minneapolis, MN August 3 — Seattle, WA August 6 — Spokane, WA August 11 — Missoula, MT
For more info & to RSVP: theminimalists.com/tour 7
Canada 2014 June 16 — St. John’s, NL June 19 — Halifax, NS June 22 — Quebec City, QC June 25 — Montreal, QC June 26 — Ottawa, ON June 29 — Toronto, ON June 30 — London, ON July 2 — Hamilton, ON July 22 — Winnipeg, MB July 24 — Regina, SK July 26 — Saskatoon, SK July 28 — Edmonton, AB July 30 — Calgary, AB August 1 — Vancouver, BC
UK & Ireland 2014 October 9 — London October 11 — Southampton October 13 — Bristol October 15 — Cardiff October 17 — Birmingham October 19 — Manchester October 21 — Leeds October 23 — Newcastle October 25 — Edinburgh October 27 — Glasgow October 29 — Belfast October 31 — Dublin
Australia 2014 November 4 — Brisbane November 6 — Gold Coast November 9 — Sydney November 12 — Melbourne November 15 — Adelaide November 19 — Perth
Act Accordingly by Colin Wright
Act Accordingly is a philosophical framework written to help people become the best possible version of themselves. Rather than proposing a one-size-fits-all code of beliefs or behaviors, the ideas presented in this intentionally concise book encourage readers to question their long-held biases, their definition of confidence, their level of self-sustainability, and the degree to which they allow themselves to evolve their beliefs over time. 78 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $7 978 1 938793 17 2 Self-Help / Philosophy
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About the Author Colin Wright is a 28-year-old author, entrepreneur, and full-time traveler. For the past four years, Colin has moved to a new country every four months using the votes of his readers as a compass. He has published fifteen books in addition to his subscription-based dispatch, Exiles. Colin has been featured in USA Today, The Jeff Probst Show, TEDx, and many other major media outlets around the world. His blog, ExileLifestyle.com, has over 150,000 monthly readers. More information: asymmetrical.co/colin
Excerpt from the Book It’s estimated that most people see tens of thousands of marketing messages a day, and you might see even more than that, depending on where you live in the world. That’s a lot of messages. And most of them are trying to convince you of something. To add insult to injury, many of these messages don’t even seem like marketing. Instead, a product is mentioned in a pop song or displayed in the background on a prime time dramedy. Perhaps the most cunning of these messages, though, is the apple on your laptop. Or the swoosh on your sneakers. Or the charging bull on your energy drink can. I say cunning because, in most cases, consumers of the products bearing these logos are more than happy to display them. In fact, they’d feel a little ripped o if they couldn’t. The logo stands for something, whether it be quality, edginess, or a certain indefinable cool that you understand, but can’t put your finger on. These associations aren’t accidental: There are teams of very intelligent people in charge of building up the reputation of these iconic marks. They make sure their computers are used by the right people, and their energy drinks are chugged by the most influential stars for specific demographics. It’s an aspect of branding that is part art and part science, and its most shining success has been making consumers feel that by associating themselves with a certain logo — certain colors, certain words, certain songs, certain tastes, and certain packaging — they are themselves transformed into something more. They believe that some of the quality or edginess or cool displayed in commercials and magazine spreads will somehow rub off on them.
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Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus left their six-figure corporate careers, jettisoned most of their material possessions, and started focusing on life’s most important aspects. And they never looked back. This book explores Joshua and Ryan’s backgrounds, their troubled pasts, and their spiral into depression. And then, after a set of life-changing events, they discovered minimalism, which allowed Joshua and Ryan to eliminate life’s excess and focus on the essential things in life. 138 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $12 978 0 615648 22 4 Self-Help / Inspiration
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Excerpt from the Book You can’t change the people around you, but you can change the people around you. Sometimes you have to get rid of certain relationships, even relationships of great value. Sometimes a person’s beliefs or values are radically different than yours. When this is the case it’s okay to terminate the relationship or at least change the terms of the relationship. We all change over time. Sometimes we grow closer to certain people, sometimes we grow apart, sometimes we fall out of love, sometimes we change together. Just because someone has changed, doesn’t mean they don’t love you, it doesn’t mean they don’t care about you immensely; it just means they’ve changed.
If the best version of you shows up to the party, you’ll be able to bring the best out of other people.
Moreover, you cannot expect a person to change in every way you want them to change. Of course, some people make radical changes in their lives, but it is not your responsibility in any relationship to expect someone to change to adhere to your standards, beliefs, or values. The only person you can change is yourself. When you change yourself—when you lead by example—often times the people closest to you will follow suit. If you change your diet, start exercising, start paying close attention to your important relationships, and set higher relationship standards, then you’ll notice other people doing the same thing. If the best version of you shows up to the party, you’ll be able to bring the best out of other people. Unfortunately, there will be times when certain relationships don’t work—be it marriages, intimate relationships, close friendships, employee-boss relationships, relationships with family members, etc. e best thing you can do is change yourself (not attempt to change the other person). You don’t have to stay in a relationship if you are unhappy. at doesn’t mean you shouldn’t make an effort to get to the root of the relationship’s problems—it means that you can change the relationship if it is not working. Before you change or terminate a relationship, you should get a vision of what you’d like it to look like in the future. e following sections discuss specific ideas on how to envision a new future for your relationships.
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Iceland India Interstate by Colin Wright
An unexpected relationship turns into an unconventional adventure, as full-time traveler Colin Wright falls for an Icelandic girl who tests his ideas about relationships and becomes a partner-in-crime across three continents. 224 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $15 978 0 938793 08 0 Memoir / Travel Stories
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Excerpt from the Book “A human life isn’t worth much here, is it?” I turned my gaze away from the tiny dots up near the top of my high-rise apartment building and looked at the man who spoke to me out of the blue. He was respectable-looking and perhaps a few years older than middle-aged. His well-taken-care-of face was pulled into a tight grimace as he tilted his head upward to look at the building dots; each one a man hanging precariously from an inch-thick rope and sitting on a small plank of wood to which that rope was tied. The men on ropes were putting another new coat of paint on the building, the third since I’d moved in. “It’s true,” I said to the man as we both turned to walk away from the lobby doors, “and kind of sad.” The concept of ‘filling seats’ when it comes to employment seems to be a common theme around Kolkata, and across India as a whole. While most countries are struggling to increase the value-perperson of their employable masses, the strategy in India is more about getting as many people working as possible, damn the consequences.
When the majority of the population works in jobs where they serve as little more than nameless, faceless, replaceable cogs, they can and will be undervalued as human beings by the machines they’re a part of, and by the people who operate them.
And there are consequences. At first glance, this seems like a good plan. People like to be gainfully employed, and if they are not (and therefore have no way to take care of themselves and their families), they tend to make decisions that aren’t good for their government (protesting and joining anti-government causes, for example). So, for the average citizen, it’s good news that the government wants you to have a job. For the government, it’s good news that the citizenry will have something to lose, should they have to decide whether or not to stick their necks out for a cause at some point. Long-term, however, there are massive downsides to this system. First and foremost, when the majority of the population works in jobs where they serve as little more than nameless, faceless, replaceable cogs, they can and will be undervalued as human beings by the machines they’re a part of, and by the people who operate them.
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My Exile Lifestyle by Colin Wright
From his early years as an antisocial geek, to his high-flying career in Los Angeles, to his life as a wandering vagabond, Colin holds nothing back as he talks about love, business, blogging, and culture through tales that span four continents. In the easy to digest storytelling style that has made his other work such a success, Colin discusses life on the road and nothing is too taboo. Every epic, embarrassing, and awkward detail is covered with sometimes brutal honesty. 270 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $12 978 1 938793 09 7 Memoir / Travel Stories
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Excerpt from the Book Between working on projects for clients, you start up a blog and decide it will be the foundation for your new life. She tells you she wants to learn some basic graphic design and start up her own studio. Suddenly, every conversation is about the end of August, when this world will cease to exist and you’ll each move on to new worlds — with new friends, new goals, new desires — and what life will be like then. There is crying, mostly from her, but that’s largely because crying is not how you deal with sadness and guilt and change. But your stomach is in knots some nights, and when you wake up at 3am and look over at her, you can’t help but think, “Am I fucking crazy? What am I doing?”
You sell off the kingdom, piece by piece, and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.
Then you remember the blog. And that you’re finally going to be traveling. And you think about the interesting new life you’ve been living online. And how you won’t have to depend on clients for money anymore, because you’ve got ideas — big ideas — about how to make money on the road. Things will be exciting again, not just comfortable. You know this because if these four months are anything, they’re not comfortable. And they’re just buildup to the main event. You sell everything you own that won’t fit into a carry-on bag or in your satchel. First to go, five spare computers. then your massive collection of monitors. Bye bye desks, bye bye car. Eventually the bed leaves and you’re sleeping on a mattress on the floor. You watch your life slowly dissolve around you. You sell off the kingdom, piece by piece, and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere. Anywhere in the world. The last week of August arrives, and you’re waiting in your empty apartment, wine at the ready, already drinking because you know tonight is the night it will all be made official. Four months ago at that bar in Seattle, she joked that you shouldn’t just break up, you should make it into an event. If a relationship was good, why should you mourn its passing? Why not celebrate it instead?
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Brand-Changing Day by Shawn Mihalik
In the world of the casual American chain restaurant, brand-changing day signifies the start of something new—new menu items are rolled out, logos are redesigned, service procedures are updated, and old uniforms are traded for hipper, darker, flashier styles. But for employees at The Grill in Youngstown, Ohio—including twenty-something server Scott Pelletier and forty-something general manager Geoffrey McCree— brand-changing day might be when everything changes. Forever. • Novel by young, emerging author • Mature, modern literary fiction • Extensive online promotion • National and regional newspaper reviews and features 211 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $12 978 1 938793 24 0 Fiction / Contemporary
But for employees at The Grill in Youngstown, Ohio—including t wenty-something server Scott Pelletier and forty-something general manager Geoffrey McCree—brand-changing day might be when everything changes. Forever.
His works include The Final Days of Poetry, a poetry collection; The Flute Player, a novella; and Brand-Changing Day, a novel.
SHAWN MIHALIK
Shawn Mihalik was born in San Diego, California in 1990. He currently lives in Youngstown, Ohio, where he studied journalism at Youngstown State University. He writes novels, poetry, and short stories and explores the characteristics of different varieties of wine.
BRAND-CHANGING DAY
In the world of the casual American chain restaurant, brand-changing day signifies the start of something new—new menu items are rolled out, logos are redesigned, service procedures are updated, and old uniforms are traded for hipper, darker, flashier styles.
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About the Author Shawn Mihalik was born in San Diego, California in 1990. He studied journalism at Youngstown State University, and now lives in Missoula, Montana, where he writes novels, poetry, and short stories and explores the characteristics of different varieties of wine. His works include The Final Days of Poetry, a poetry collection; The Flute Player, a novella; and Brand-Changing Day, a novel. More information: asymmetrical.co/shawn
Excerpt from the Book “See,” Ornithalt grunted. Ultimately, though, the matter didn’t even come to a vote, because Earl E. Bradford, Jr., announced that he would like to, with the board’s approval, of course, engage the company in another structured rebranding, the details of which he’d been working on for some time. The boardroom grew quiet, and Loor leaned forward, speaking for the lot of them. “Go on.” Her accent was British. She was from Oregon. And so Bradford launched into a detailed account of his plan, complete with printed spreadsheets and demonstrative charts, his voice his particular brand of Texan drawl. The experimental dishes the company had recently been testing in various North American stores and also the dessert menu they’d rolled out in the North East U.S. a few months ago were so far very well received by customers, and so now was the time to make them permanent fixtures, introduce a new menu company-wide, and while they were at it, why not do a wider rebranding. No name changes this time, of course, but new uniforms, new procedures, time to get rid of the shades of red from the company’s logo altogether and change the black to a brighter, less midnight sort of black. And of course there was a good deal more to it, which they could discuss soon, but here was the clincher: they could get the ball in motion quickly, roll out the changes in just a few months, and then, maybe six months after that, announce the company’s IPO. This last point was the linchpin of Bradford’s plan. Several of the board members had wanted to take the company public for some time now. Others had been indifferent, happy with the money they were currently making, content to also manage the stakes they held in other various private companies. Earl E. Bradford had been adamantly against it. So when he announced his plan and his acquiescence to—or rather, more appropriately, his avidity toward—the idea of a public stock offering, the rest of the board applauded, Ornithalt and Hubbard enthusiastically so.
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Real Powers: Part One by Colin Wright
It’s 2027, and as the global economy shifts from unprecedented prosperity into harsh decline, the world’s experts struggle to understand why. A young blogger discovers a device with a hidden purpose, an idealistic journalist upends her career by targeting the people who own the news, a master media manipulator questions his work and takes on a challenging new client, a powerful energy tycoon bristles as her position is challenged, a technologistturned-cult leader questions his own faith, and an unaccomplished young man born into a political dynasty decides to take his rightful place in the world. 215 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $10 978 1 938793 10 3 Science Fiction / Series
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Excerpt from the Book Joanna was embarrassed. For the reporters massed and milling around in front of her, not for herself. She was never embarrassed for herself: she made sure to never do anything worth being embarrassed about. The faux journalists jostling each other in the small, cobblestoned plaza didn’t seem to hold themselves to that same standard, however. They tottered like ducklings toward anything sensational or shocking. If it involved sex or violence or moral deviance or celebrities, they would be there with gusto, waving their microphones like magic wands, hoping that the sound-bytes brought home to their paymasters might earn them pats on the head and a spot in front of the camera.
To those heads, people, microphones, and cameras, Joanna said, “I will make a statement and take no questions.”
Joanna looked out across the many heads laid out before her. The heads were attached to people in khaki trench coats and fancy blouses. Those people were attached to microphones, and those microphones were (via tangles of frequencies and the occasional thick, black cable) attached to cameras. Those cameras, in turn, were attached to other people who no doubt also dreamed of being on camera, but instead spent their time editing and re-editing footage of the people who were. To those heads, people, microphones, and cameras, Joanna said, “I will make a statement and take no questions.” The crowd hushed a bit, and when one high-pitched voice started to shout out a question, it was quickly stifled by others around it. Joanna continued. “I’m sure you’re all aware by now that I’m being sued for libel by the Smith family as a result of my recent exposé on their connections to organized crime around the world. The court proceedings have been put on a temporary hold as both sides gather up evidence to fire at the other. The whole fallacious show should be just as tasteless as one would imagine.” A few muffled voices rose up from the audience, but Joanna spoke a little louder to drown them out. “I stand by every word I’ve written about the Smiths, and what I uncovered about them should shock the world, leading to their expulsion from public positions. But I’m not naive enough to think that will actually happen.” She barely stifled a frustrated sigh. What was the point? These people were just as unwilling to react to pertinent information as the consumers who’d been reading her work in the Times for over a decade.
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Real Powers: Part Two by Colin Wright
Blogger Mason McCann suffers the consequences of sharing knowledge the world isn’t ready for, journalist Joanna Hubble learns to see society from a very different angle, media manipulator Manicule lights a fire under radical movements and finds himself pushing too far, Governor Michael Smith flies up the political ranks, energy tycoon Niki Jenks finds herself in the crosshairs, and Xerxes, the genius leader of the Singularity Group, discovers dissent within his ranks as he plans an epic move that will change the world. All the while, the hacker collective Opus continues to influence events through everyday people. 208 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $10 978 1 938793 11 0 Science Fiction / Series
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Real Powers: Part Three by Colin Wright
After a tumultuous and violent encounter in London, off-the-grid journalist Joanna Hubble pulls even further away from society. Blogger Mason McCann finds himself enbroiled in non-standard nation building. Manicule discovers a connection betwen himself and the hacker collective, Opus. Niki Jenks continues stitching together a new kind of empire, swatting aside opposition as she builds. Singularity cult leader Xerxes builds himself a pyramid and allies with an old foe, and political wunderkind Michael Smith is pulled deeper into the fold, leaving him to wonder whether he’d be capable of throwing stones from inside a system he’s grown less and less certain about. Along the way, a mysterious woman named Celia Black makes herself and her organization, Citizen’s Solution, known as a potential hurdle...or ally. 208 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $10 978 1 938793 11 0 Science Fiction / Series
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As a Decade Fades
by Joshua Fields Millburn As he approaches thirty, Jody Grafton’s career as a singer-songwriter falls apart: he loses his record deal, his money, his fame--even his desire to create new music. While he stares at the rubble of his one-hit-wonder musical career, his mother is diagnosed with lung cancer, his marriage ends abruptly, and Jody starts drinking heavily to deaden his new reality. When he hasn’t a single reason left to live, he attempts suicide and ends up in a psych ward where he’s prodded with questions he isn’t yet prepared to answer. Amid the tailspin, Jody receives a phone call from his recently estranged girlfriend and she has unexpected news: she’s pregnant. 284 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $12 978 1 938793 02 8 Fiction / Contemporary
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About the Author Joshua Fields Millburn left his corporate career at age 30 to become a full-time author and writing instructor. His essays at TheMinimalists.com have garnered an audience of more than 100,000 monthly readers. He has been featured on CBS This Morning, ABC, NBC, FOX, NPR, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, Forbes, Elle Magazine, Boston Globe, and various other outlets. More information: asymmetrical.co/jfm
Excerpt from the Book “Hello? Jody?” Her voice reached through the phone. Its modest panic turned him on. Not sexually, but in a way that stroked his ego. He wasn’t sure why, but it excited him to know that she needed him. The tranquillity of his wordlessness didn’t allow him to respond. He savored the hush instead. “Jody, are you there?” A stiffness held the line. “Hello?” “Whadda you want?” He conceded these few words, dragging his consonants in a Midwestern fashion, his voice dressed in smoke and early morning wine. He hadn’t talked to her in weeks, not since she’d nearly had him arrested in that snow-covered Taco Bell parking lot. He thought the only way to keep her at bay was to remain cold and yet somehow show her he cared at the same time. It was a strange dichotomy. People don’t know how to love the ones they love until they disappear from their lives. The clouds through the window were few, but they formed a discord of patterns, a perfect white motif on an otherwise blue sky. But he knew they were beautiful only from a great distance, and if he were to get any closer they would lose their beauty, turning more and more into a foggy haze the closer he got. But they were perfect from afar—the homes of angels. So he kept his distance. “What do I want? What do I want!” she shouted through the phone. “What do you mean, what do I want?” Jody remained quiet, a long drag from his cigarette the only sound. “I think I’m pregnant.” 25
The Flute Player by Shawn Mihalik
For nearly ten years, young Oliver has begrudgingly accepted his position as the flute player of the peaceful village of Drommar—a responsibility thrust upon him after the previous flute player, Oliver’s best friend, drowned in a tragic childhood accident. Now on the cusp of adulthood, a mysterious young woman enters Oliver’s life, and he begins to question the nature of his world and the importance of his place in it. 92 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $9 978 1 938793 12 7 Young Adult Fiction / Fantasy
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Excerpt from the Book “Excuse me, good sir.” Startled, Oliver turned. Behind him once again stood the man in silver armor. He definitely wasn’t from the village, Oliver decided. “Excuse me,” the man said again. “I’m sorry to trouble you, but I seem to have misplaced my horse. Have you seen—? Wait a second. I know you. . . .” “Yes,” Oliver said. “We met a few minutes ago, but you disappeared. There was a dragon and—” The soldier grabbed Oliver by the shoulders, shaking him. “Yes, yes, the dragon. I need to stop the dragon.”
Fire licked at the side of the sword as he pushed the hilt inward toward the metal like a lever. The blue paint was beginning to blister and peel.
Oliver jerked his body away from the man’s grasp. “You already stopped the dragon,” he said. “Listen, I need your help. There’s a girl back that way and she’s in trouble. She’s trapped. We need to help her—” “No!” the man said. “I must find my horse. I have to stop the dragon!” The man pushed Oliver to the ground, running past him in the direction opposite where the young woman waited. The trees rustled behind him as he vanished into the woods. Rubbing his lower back, Oliver stood up. He winced, but his lips curled into a self-satisfied smirk at the same time. He had what he needed. Running back to the burning vehicle, Oliver saw that the flames had grown larger, spreading around the vehicle and into its interior. “Help,” the girl called as he approached. “I’m here. I’m here,” Oliver said, trying to reassure her. “Move back.” He took the sword he’d plucked from the armored man’s belt when he’d pushed Oliver to the ground and plunged the blade into the crevice between the door and the rest of the vehicle. Fire licked at the side of the sword as he pushed the hilt inward toward the metal like a lever. The blue paint was beginning to blister and peel. Oliver was not a strong young man, and his muscles ached as he pried at the door. He began to sweat, a symptom of both the heat and the exertion. e bottom of his trousers caught fire, and he swung his leg wildly as he pushed on the sword. He could see the young woman staring back at him. “Kick the door,” he told her. 27
Days After the Crash by Joshua Fields Millburn
There is wreckage in the rearview. Jody Grafton’s world is crumbling around him. To get away from it all, Jody moves from his native Ohio to Brooklyn to sort through the rubble of his selfindulgent 20s. His marriage is over. His new girlfriend is pregnant. And his career as a pseudo-famous singer-songwriter has fallen apart: gone is his record deal, his money, his fame - even his desire to create new music. While he stares at the ruins of his musical career, his mother becomes ill, and Jody starts drinking heavily to deaden his new reality. After months of struggle, he attempts to put the pieces of his life back together the only way he knows how: through music. 52 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $5 978 0 982797 37 2 Fiction / Novella
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Excerpt from the Book Jody Grafton was not an illusionist, but he was good at making things disappear. He could not, however, disappear the morning. The morning was unavoidable. He squinted in agony as the sun’s rays spotlighted the nicotine-bruised walls that swallowed his pathetic apartment. Vague reminders of last night were scattered around him. Dirty clothes. Fast-food wrappers. Empty beer cans. It was a buckshot morning and Jody had a bloodshot heart. He made his way up the fire escape to the rooftop one story above the apartment, balancing his guitar and a black coffee and a pocketful of heartfelt words for a song.
Azure blue sky to the west, early-morning sun to the east, the complete sum of endless blue heavens scattered above him, juxtaposed with storm clouds in the distance, the paradoxical promise of sunshine and rain.
Jody worked his lighter until the first cigarette of the day was lit, sucking in the fumes of a dying city. It felt like his world had ended over the last year, and yet he wasn’t yet accustomed to this new world. Here he was, a year from thirty, already staring at the wreckage of his selfindulgent twenties in life’s rearview mirror. Tattooed arms protruded from his teeshirt’s sleeves, his skin inked with the scars of a past life, reminders of those troubles in the rearview. His right forearm displayed FUTURE REGRETS in faded blue ink, ornamented by sparse musical notes and colorful embellishments that didn’t add up to much more than what they were—garish filler, not unlike much of his twenties. He wanted to be a better man, but he wore the scars of the last decade instead, and he waited for that better man to manifest somewhere within him.
A New York sunburn summer had overtaken the borough: azure blue sky to the west, early-morning sun to the east, the complete sum of endless blue heavens scattered above him, juxtaposed with storm clouds in the distance, the paradoxical promise of sunshine and rain. Near the open area’s only door, dead center of an otherwise empty rooftop, Jody sat beneath the shade of a three-foot awning—the only shelter from Mother Nature’s murderous temper. He sat on a tarnished metal chair that thousands of asses had christened over the years and he tuned his Gibson by ear. Breathing in the dense Bed-Stuy Brooklyn air, he searched the ether for a song, thinking into the blankness of the morning.
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Falling While Sitting Down by Joshua Fields Millburn
What does it mean to be human? How does a person find meaning in his or her life when everything’s falling apart? Falling While Sitting Down is a short story collection about dealing with loneliness and discontent while balancing hope and despair. Ultimately, this book’s stories deal with finding meaning in a seemingly meaningless world. The first four stories in this collection, written by Joshua Fields Millburn, discuss the struggles we face as we attempt to discover the meaning of our lives. The title story, “Falling While Sitting Down,” follows an unnamed boy through eighteen years of growing up in an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, showing the emotional muscles it takes to survive such circumstances. Three talented young writers— Colin Wright, Chase Night, and Mark D. Robertson—contributed to this collection, expanding the narrative beyond the scope of Joshua Fields Millburn’s four stories. 124 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $7 978 1 938793 00 4 Fiction / Short Stories
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Excerpt from the Book
A burly woman in a too-tight security guard uniform with epaulets, wearing a name tag that proved her first name was the same as his, waited for him, holding a wand on the other side of the metal detector.
I tell everybody something, but it’s usually goodbye. This was the song Jody Grafton sang to himself while he waited to board a plane and leave behind everything he’d broken, everything he’d left undone, trying to untangle himself from a decade of dilemma, if only for a while. Sometimes a man has to go away to come back.
From among the sedated single-file procession in the serpentine security line, he watched a symphony of emotions take place just beyond the faux-velvet ropes, none of which emotions he wanted to think about: A soldier in full uniform embraced his young wife, and he met and kissed and held his son for the first time. A man in a suit and striped tie with a smart four-in-hand knot was greeted by another man in a cheaper suit holding a sign with the first man’s last name on it. A prepubescent daughter darted past the other pedestrians and yelled “Daddy!” and embraced her father with a hug that conveyed a tenderness on which many Hollywood movie plots are predicated—her expression was filled with joy and excitement and some other emotion Jody couldn’t extract from the tip of his tongue, a nameless emotion he thought might be something like love, but he wasn’t entirely sure. A cacophony of crying babies echoed down an out-of-sight terminal somewhere past the metal detectors. A mother hugged her boy and cried and hugged her boy again and kissed him on the forehead as he bent down, bidding him farewell and wishing him a safe trip to his new college a thousand miles away. A man in his seventies was welcomed by a greeting party of no one at all and his cold stare couldn’t mask the grim awareness on his face. He bypassed the crowded luggage carousel and exited the airport’s large automatic doors into the waterlogged Ohio air. The overhead parking lot lights extinguished themselves and the early morning sun illuminated the old man’s trek to the long-term parking garage, casting shadows indiscriminately on everything that was beautiful and everything that was not. Jody unlaced and slipped off his Redwing boots and placed them in a plastic bin alongside his due bag and guitar case on the X-ray machine’s conveyor belt. He forgot to remove his own belt and so the machine beeped when he walked through the metal detector. A burly woman in a too-tight security guard uniform with epaulets, wearing a name tag that proved her first name was the same as his, waited for him, holding a wand on the other side of the metal detector. She looked him over in an effort to establish his merits and noticed the apathy on his shirt-sleeve and the tattoos on both arms and asked him if he had any piercings in an accusatory and assuming tone that seemed to mimic annoyance or boredom or somehow both at the same time.
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COLLECTIONS
7 or 8 Ways to End the World by Colin Wright
A collection of short work by Colin Wright, author of the Real Powers speculative science fiction series and upcoming time-traveling romp, Ordovician. The stories presented in this collection revolve around world-ending scenarios, revealing that some endings are just beginnings in disguise, while others are exactly what they seem to be. Stories in 7 or 8 Ways to End the World: The Gregorian Chronicles Squidhound’s Solution Nothing Personal
His Island Fortress Abigale’s Ark Dr. M
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Orbiting Arbiter
Stories: The Gregorian Chronicles SquidHoundʼs Solution Nothing Personal His Island Fortress Abigaleʼs Ark Dr. M Reintroduction Orbiting Arbiter
85 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $7 978 1 938793 21 9 Short Stories / Collections / Science Fiction
7 OR 8 WAYS TO END THE WORLD
a short story collection by Colin Wright
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7 or 8 More Ways to End the World by Colin Wright
A followup to the popular 7 or 8 Ways to End the World, this collection continues along its predecessor’s trajectory, presenting eight short stories about endings, some that are clearly bad, others that are potentially good, and all of which leave the reader wondering about the nature of births, deaths, and what we do with the space in between. Stories in 7 or 8 More Ways to End the World: Dog
The Door Higgins Pong
Blood Sea Starship Rover
Reboot 77 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $7 978 1 938793 23 3 Short Stories / Collections / Science Fiction
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Simplicity: Essays
by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus Simplicity: Essays is The Minimalists’ second essay collection, a follow-up to their bestselling Minimalism: Essential Essays. In the two years since the authors quit their six-figure corporate jobs and embraced simpler lives, they have written more than 200 essays on the subject of simple living. This book contains 46 edited and revised essays about living a meaningful life, plus a special forward by The Minimalists and two unpublished essays that can’t be found anywhere else. 152 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $7 978 1 938793 04 2 Self-Help / Inspiration
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Excerpt from the Book
Look around. Pick up something you haven’t used in a while. Hold it in your hands. Feel it. Look it over. Think about it. When was the last time you really needed this thing?
Have you ever looked around your home and wondered why you have so much stuff? Or do you, like most people, simply accept the stuff that’s there because it’s your stuff? Instead of questioning why you have the stuff, do you just spend hours organizing it, cleaning it, and occasionally replacing it if it “needs” to be replaced? We did that too. For many, many years. And like us, you too can break the cycle. Look around. Pick up something you haven’t used in a while. Hold it in your hands. Feel it. Look it over. Think about it. When was the last time you really needed this thing?
If you haven’t used it in a while, why do you still have it? Are you holding on to it just in case? Questioning the meaning we give to our stuff is the basis of minimalism. By paring down and getting rid of life’s excess, we can focus on what’s important. There isn’t anything wrong with owning stuff. The problem occurs when we give too much meaning to the stuff we own without questioning why we own it. Over the last couple years, the two of us have questioned everything, from our clothes and our furniture, to our homes and our cars. Question something today. Question something tomorrow. Discover a meaningful life. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Coffee with the Other Man by Colin Wright
A collection of short work about relationships, the people who have them, and what happens when conflict arises within them. Focusing especially on non-standard couplings, Coffee with the Other Man starts with a jilted recent-ex confronting his replacement and discusses the complexities of infidelity from the standpoint of an outsider, wonders over how much one should sacrifice for a relationship when one person’s beliefs are not shared by the other, and addresses both death and reaching the apex of sexual experimentation in two separate stories. This collection includes: Coffee with the Other Man Settling
Glitter and Wine
Hearts Growing Fonder Séance Fiancé
Years Become Seconds Spent
89 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $7 978 1 938793 28 8 Short Stories / Collection / Fiction
Stories included in this collection:
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Excerpt from the Book Brill wished the world had a face he could punch. Or balls worth kicking. He was certain he’d heard a story once, about some sort of creation myth that someone, at some point, actually believed. The myth involved testicles and a massive penis and something about creating the world with the ejaculated seed of a god. The details were blurry, though, so Brill stared at the surface of his coffee, glimmering with reflected lights from the adult video store across the street. The coffee was shit.
It was the absurd cliché of the situation that clipped Brill’s ear before the big picture landed a full-palm slap across his face.
Phalluses heralded beginnings, and violence frequently ended them. Ended beginnings, that is, but also ended phalluses, in some cases. At the moment, however, the opposite was proving to be true. His relationship with Audrey started with a scuffle, and was ending because of some other guy’s dick. Brill found his pink slip — a handwritten letter, rich with colorful language and curly lowercase e’s, as was her trademark, which explained that she was moving on — breaking up with him — and would be moving out. So sorry, don’t know how it happened, blah blah bullshit. It was the absurd cliché of the situation that clipped Brill’s ear before the big picture landed a full-palm slap across his face. He was that guy. The cuckolded sap who’d been fawning over a woman who’d been getting her share of strange between relationshippy dinners and late into the evening laptop screenings of indie flicks and late-90s sitcoms. Marathon sessions of ‘Saved by the Bell’ intersected with the subtitled story of a family who sailed around the world intersected with limb-tangled love-making and the occasional order-in Chinese food for brunch. It was everything they’d always wanted, with none of the complications they’d both come to expect from the misadventures their friends had breathlessly reported to them over the years over countless six packs and many more cups of coffee, laced with shots of espresso and a sense of desperation. A need to have someone else understand; to care, if not commiserate. Brill took a sip of the shitty coffee, and set it back down on the counter at which he sat. The height of the counter was awkward, though it might have been the chair that needed fixing. One was too high and one was too low, or both were built for one particular person who Brill imagined had tiny little legs and a torso twice the height of any normal human. Not being that person, Brill’s coffee rested at clavicle-level, his chest pressed against rounded-off and badly polished wood, arms bent uncomfortably atop the same, a red mark forming at the crease of skin next to his armpit. Adjusting his posture slightly put the pressure of the counter’s rim right above his nipples. Leaning back resulted in a too-casual body curve — a shape that said, “Look at me, I have nothing to do but put myself on awkward display for you, fellow coffee shop occupants!” It also caused the low chair-backing to dig into what felt like an important part of his spine. 39
A Day in the Life of a Minimalist by Joshua Fields Millburn
At age 30, Joshua Fields Millburn left his six-figure career, ditched most of his material possessions, and started focusing on life’s most important aspects. Once he embraced his newfound minimalist lifestyle, he never looked back. Suffice it to say, everything has changed in Millburn’s life in the last three years. After his mother died in October 2009 and his marriage ended a month later, he began questioning everything in his life: his material possessions, his career, his goals, his health, his relationships, his path in life. Soon he discovered minimalism. 208 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $12 978 1 938793 06 6 Self-Help / Inspiration
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Excerpt from the Book
Sure, I experienced that cocaine-like high at the cash register, but by the time my credit card statement arrived, I was overwhelmed with discontent and anxiety and stress.
In the beginning I was lost. But I made it look like I knew the way. I’ve noticed that a lot of people search for happiness in the strangest ways—often through things or ephemeral indulgences that, by definition, don’t last. I know I did. I was discontented with much of my life. I was unhappy, unfulfilled, dissatisfied. That’s incredibly difficult to confess publicly, but it’s true.
People used to tell me that I had “everything figured out.” I had the six-figure salary, the huge house, the luxury cars (yes, cars, plural), and all the material possessions that were supposed to bring me happiness. But I was not happy; I was not content or satisfied with my life. So, like many Americans, I tried to buy happiness, searching the malls and the stores for that next thing that would satiate my thirst. But those purchases didn’t make me happy, at least not for long. Sure, I experienced that cocaine-like high at the cash register, but by the time my credit card statement arrived, I was overwhelmed with discontent and anxiety and stress. To mask my depression, I bought more stuff, thinking maybe this or that would finally make me happy. It never did. Another month, another credit card statement. I was earning great money, but I was spending even better money, and that equation never works in your favor (unless you’re the credit card company). I reached a point in my late twenties where I was experiencing so much discontent that something had to change. But what? I wasn’t sure. I was in debt. I was unhealthy and out of shape and I felt like crap. My relationships were in shambles because I didn’t treat the people closest to me like they mattered. I was working 70– 80 hours a week at a job I didn’t enjoy, leaving little time for me to pursue my passions. I wasn’t growing as an individual; in fact, I felt as if I was dying inside. And I certainly wasn’t contributing beyond myself. It got to the point where I didn’t know what was important anymore.
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Minimalism: Essential Essays by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus
Minimalism: Essential Essays is an edited collection of 29 of Joshua and Ryan’s favorite essays about living a more meaningful life with less stuff. This 133-page collection also contains a special forward by Joshua and Ryan, as well as two bonus essays you can’t find anywhere else. The book is organized into seven interconnected themes: Living in the Moment, Emotional Health, Growth, Contribution, Taking Action, Passion and Mission, and Change and Experimentation. 162 pages 5 x 8 inches Perfect bound paperback $9 978 1 938793 01 1 Self-Help / Inspiration
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Excerpt from the Book To be a minimalist you must live with less than 100 things, and you can’t own a car or a home or a TV, and you can’t have a career, and you have to be able to live in exotic places all over the world, and you have to write a blog, and you can’t have any children, and you have to be a young white male from a privileged background. OK, we’re joking. Obviously. But people who often dismiss minimalism as some sort of fad or trend usually mention some of the above “restrictions” as to why they could “never be a minimalist.” The truth is that minimalism isn’t about any of those things, but it can help you accomplish all of that stuff if you’d like to. If you desire to live with less than 100 things or not own a car or to travel all over the world without fear, minimalism can help. But that’s not the point. The point is that minimalism is a tool to help you achieve freedom. Freedom from fear, freedom from worry, freedom from overwhelm, freedom from guilt, freedom from depression, freedom from enslavement. Freedom.
The point is that minimalism is a tool to help you achieve freedom. Freedom from fear, freedom from worry, freedom from overwhelm, freedom from guilt, freedom from depression, freedom from enslavement.
It is, however, OK to own a car or own a house or have children or have a career. If these things are necessary to you, then that’s OK. ere are tons of successful minimalists who do some or all of these things. Leo Babauta has a family and six children and writes one of the most popular websites in the world, and Joshua Becker has a career he enjoys and a family he loves and a house and a car in Vermont. Conversely, Colin Wright owns 51 things and travels all over the world, and Tammy Strobel is completely car-free. All of these people are minimalists even though they are vastly different. So how can they all be so different and yet still be minimalists? That brings us back to our original question: what is minimalism? Minimalism is a tool to achieve fulfillment in life. It is a tool to achieve happiness, which is (let’s face it) what we are all looking for. We all want to be happy. Minimalism can help. There are no rules in minimalism. Rather, minimalism is simply about stripping away the unnecessary things in your life so you can focus on what’s important. We believe that there are four important areas in everyone’s lives: your health, your relationships, your mission, and your passions. Typically these things overlap, and we realize what’s important to us may not be important to you.
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Chapbook Volume 1 by Asymmetrical Press
A collection of short work from Asymmetrical Press’s authors. This compilation book contains eleven pieces from existing and forthcoming Asymmetrical Press publications. Includes: Echo Lake by Joshua Fields Millburn Aiming Higher by Colin Wright Declined by Chase Night
Requirements & Expectations of Excellence by Shawn Mihalik
Prime Optimist by Ryan Nicodemus Beautiful Brant Mitchell by Chase Night
UnAmerican Dream by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus The Successor by Shawn Mihalik
Conformity as a Drug by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus Xerxes by Colin Wright
The Loneliest Man by Joshua Fields Millburn
Collection of Short Asymmetrical Press.
Published q2 2013.
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COMING SOON Advice to My 18-Year-Old Self by Asymmetrical Press How to Indie Publish a Book by Asymmetrical Press Unstuck by Ryan Nicodemus Chicken by Chase Night She Makes Hats by Robyn Devine The Natural State by Chase Night Writing About Writing is Like Kissing Your Beautiful Sister by Joshua Fields Millburn Goodbye by Joshua Fields Millburn
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