Editing this book has given me a chance for a retrospective reflection of my writing. I knew then that I was experimenting with publishing for the first time--and I realize that I will be for the rest of my life, I am sure...
Since this is some of my earliest “professional” writing, I went into editing this expecting to cringe--and I got some, but I also left feeling impressed. I feel inspired after reading what my younger self was producing. I was studying a lot of interesting topics for the first time during this era and was obsessed with retaining the wisdom, by applying the insight.
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This Second Edition has been re-edited and re-formatted myself, and features an all-new cover by my wife April Salisbury-White. These tales of epic poetry and flash fiction now fit in perfectly with the rest of Project Trinity’s stories featuring the Overseer, Richard Abendsen and all the other telekinetic heroes from the far-future Sol and Zeus Systems.
HaikuPrajna’s poetry focuses on themes like stress, serenity, concentration and meditation, where Elephant in the Room at first details lessons gained while studying philosophies such as Buddhism, Hermeticism and Neoplatonism, before diverting into fictional adventures centered on these ideas.
The round of “./sumatranus” poetry, the section “On Dependent Origination” before it, and all the following fiction can be considered a prequel to the other stories seen in books like “Fishing for Caribou”, “The Wisps Book” and “FLUKE!”. These books have risen from the ashes of a lost project like a literal phoenix, where the cumulative effect was the Sumatranus story and continuing writing when all had been lost to the digital ether; I could have quit then, but here we are with all the stories that we have today.
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Thank you for reading,
Until next time!
Allen W. McLean
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It's April's birthday! We have been very busy this month and are out for birthday celebrations [as of finishing writing this, April and I had a fantastic time wandering around the beaches and ridges of Lake Ontario! Pictures soon to come, if not already on April's socials]; thank you for finding the time to join me in this summer’s HaikuPrajna Project Roadmap update.
Upcoming Releases
[The HaikuPrajna Collection Book I: Elephant in the Room - Second Edition]
... The Second Edition of my first poetry collection is finished! The final step left is for April to finish the new cover image, so expect Elephant in the Room to stomp onto your reading list before the end of the month, July 2023. Other updates include less wasted page space, a new introduction with a retrospective reflection on some of my earliest work, and a complete re-editing of the flash fiction at the end of the book.
The flash fiction stories featured in Book I are now considered part of Project Trinity along with Books II and III and the rest of my story catalog.
I know a lot of readers who enjoyed Elephant in the Room when it first released--I am very excited to reintroduce this book!
[The Wisps Book: Sol the Last Wisp]
... This story introduces Team Seer, the Overseer's group of heroes during the era of the Zeus System. While traversing Zeus's warped timespace, the Overseer fazes in and out of memories their Team shared with the Sol the Last Wisp, the System's former Sun. During this metaphysical sci-fi fantasy, the Seer must navigate through the literal cloud network of Sol's thoughts in order to reach his core at the centre of the Sun. But the Seer finds themselves drifting off course, becoming lost in these guilt-ridden moments in time.
The Wisps Book's Sol the Last Wisp is in active production, stay tuned for future updates.
[The HaikuPrajna Collection Book IV: Two Elephants in the Room]
… Before autumn 2023, Two Elephants in the Room will feature all of the book reviews and new poetry featured on HaikuPrajna up to the end of 2022, including the to-be-reviewed books that I had read in the year.
[Escape Perennial City - SM-SARA//KID:A Edition]
... The next Second Edition after Elephant in the Room will collect the three stories that feature Maverick Hunter Richard Abendsen. Starting with this book, the short stories featured in the second HaikuPrajna Collection, “SM-SARA, Poetry and Other Stories,” will each get physical editions or will be released within books like these Second Editions.
[ULTRAVIOLET - Paperback Edition]
... This edition will be identical to the Kindle Edition, but with updated Front and Back Matter, and the Paperback Edition will also serve as the physical release of one of The Wisps Book's short stories.
Recent Releases
[BATTLE Colosseum]
The second part of BATTLE Colosseum, and a collected Physical Paperback are available online! Read more
April and I have a new shop! Our first two Etsy series are a hand sculpted polymer clay line of figurines called “Deforms”, and our official homemade stickers, “Sticker fix”!
We have already displayed our products in person at local events, which will soon be listed on the APRILandALLEN site.
In addition to this list, our idea for a video game review series has evolved into a podcast that we are structuring. These ideas will also, soon, be applied to a daily movie watchlist.
The Project Roadmap
Anniversaries: Escape Perennial City, SM-SARA, Together in Forever
Released Projects
.2019.
[2019 04 23 HaikuPrajna Day, first IG post]
[2019 06 16 SM-SARA Kindle Edition]
[2019 11 10 Patreon]
.2020.
[2020 04 04 The HaikuPrajna Collection: Elephant in the Room First Edition]
[2020 12 02 Blogspot]
.2021.
[2021 03 03 The HaikuPrajna Collection Book II: SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories First Edition]
[2021 06 13 Escape Perennial City]
[2021 11 28 The HaikuPrajna Collection Book III: Fishing for Caribou]
.2022.
[2022 03 03 The Artifact
. 2022 03 10 SM-SARA - KID:A Edition
. 2022 03 13 The Cannon
. 2022 03 22 Hector Blake
. 2022 04 01 The HaikuPrajna Collection Book II SM-SARA, Poetry and Other Stories, Second Edition]
[2022 06 16 Together in Forever Pt. I
. 2022 06 28 Together in Forever Pt II
. 2022 07 25 Together in Forever Pt III
. 2022 08 01 Together in Forever: A Short Story - Collected Paperback Pt. I-III]
[2022 09 30 The Wisps Book I: Tomothy and the Overseer of the Forest]
[2022 10 29 FLUKE! Ch I: ULTRAVIOLET]
[2022 12 03 The Wisps Book: Ado the Owl]
.2023.(so far)
[2023 01 30 The Wisps Book II: Falgara the Giant ]
[2023 02 25 The Wisps Book III: Summond the Scarecrow ]
[2023 03 25 FLUKE! Ch II: BATTLE Colosseum Pt. I Hiding One’s Tracks
. 2023 04 28 FLUKE! Ch II: BATTLE Colosseum Pt. II Unified Field Theory
[The HaikuPrajna Collection Book IV: Two Elephants in the Room
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Thank you for reading the Summer 2023 HaikuPrajna Project Roadmap! These plans help me continue to refocus my tendencies and habits toward the One goal; writing and sharing what I write.
Again, thank you for reading,
Until next time!
Allen W. McLean
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April's psychedelic music videos, art and poetry is available on all streaming platforms; Electric Armchair - The Forest Machine (Official Music Video) [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBv1egGSrJk ]
Thanks to you, I am now a VERIFIED BOOK AUTHOR with over TWO-THOUSAND (2000!) readers who have joined us on Medium! "Ado the Owl" and "Hector Blake" are available to read, right now, on Medium. [ https://haikuprajna.medium.com/subscribe ]
We are ecstatic to reveal our first online handmade merchandise on the brand-new APRILandALLEN’s shop; from Deforms, our clay charm figurine line, adopt a member of The Elephant herd, the first wave in ZOO WHO, our animal-based series that uses the rainbow’s seven colours, or take control of your own fate with one of four unique forms of Eye Die, our series of playing dice who keep their eye on low probabilities to even the odds in your favour.
Our approach and ideas toward sculpting have evolved in a considerable way since we first set out planning our first series of figurines, where ZOO WHO and the Eye Die are just the cream of the crop at the time of writing, so stay tuned to our socials for new waves of figurines and other merch; we are inspired by product lines from Marvel, Hasbro, Sanrio and many more brands from our childhoods while hand-sculpting and hand-painting these clay charms.
ZOO WHO's The Elephant in particular is tied to HaikuPrajna through Elephant in the Room and The Wisps Book's Terraform Tomothy, while Eye Die is an official piece of Electric Armchair merchandise!
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*Multi-functional clay figurine charm*
*It can perch from a shelf or desk - or hang from a keychain, bracelet, necklace, phone, bag, etc..*
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Every elephant is unique in sculpt and colour, part of the herd, even when apart. They can sense each other from a distance. Owners may name their buddy (example: Joe the rose red elephant).
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Good luck is an elephant's trunk raised high so owners never feel far from home.
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Each painted elephant hangs from a string, and comes packaged in a clear plastic sleeve with a haiku on the tag.
Keep in mind that your buddy is a one-of-a-kind handmade charm, and should be handled with care.
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For any questions, comments, or more details, please reach out to us on Etsy Messages or social media @Electric Armchair and @Haiku Prajna.
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APRIL and ALLEN's Art Works, Book Merch, and Clay Quirks
We are April and Allen. We have been together for over a decade, creating eclectic projects and bouncing ideas off each other. We create our projects with almost too much care and thought, and the projects just keep getting bigger and better! Be part of our process, and let us be part of yours! ]
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We have lots of plans in motion for this, including videos that document our process; thank you for your support and for helping make these dreams a reality!
Thank you for reading,
Until next time!
Allen W. McLean
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BATTLE Colosseum, the latest chapter in the "FLUKE!" series, has been released as a paperback novella and as an ebook on Amazon Kindle Unlimited! Add to Goodreads and learn more [ https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/batt-le-colosseum.html ]
Markings of the beast.\ Reminders of the blood shed\ by the ruler's hand.
#HAIKUPRAJNA - The Queen
Hello, Happy New Year!
Thank you for reading, it is past time for an updated Project Roadmap, where we look forward into the future of HaikuPrajna and the books I am writing.
First off, "SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories" will be getting a new print edition for its hardcover release that will contain the revised scripts from standalone editions of the stories, both of which will be available early 2022; next, Books IV, V and VI of the HaikuPrajna Collection are in first-draft stages with a book collecting book reviews and poetry, another book that contains some stories written for publications, and a third titled "Bucket and Train" by both April and myself, where I expect to release at least Books IV and V this year; and finally, both "Fluke" and "Orson Tripp" are aiming for late 2022 release days.
Last year I implemented a MailChimp widget on the site to replace the older email subscription systems, so I am asking all readers to please sign up to catch all of the upcoming sale dates on books that are already available on Kindle Unlimited and the Amazon store;
. eBook Free Fridays every week Elephant in the Room: Free every Saturday until February
. SM-SARA standalone $0.99 us\eu 0127-0203
. SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories $0.99 eu 0211-18
. Fishing for Caribou $0.99 us\eu 0228-0307
. SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories $0.99 us\eu 0314-0321
This post may be updated in the future to reflect changes regarding these sales.
If you have noticed a lack of newer poetry, it is because all of my WIPs are first drafts at the moment, which I am hoping will change soon; currently, I am focusing on more meaningful reposting associated with the catalog of books at large, where I have noted down anniversary dates for each book and will be teasing each as they come nearer.
That is it for the updates for now!
Once again, thank you for reading,
Allen W. McLean
These poems are based on my metaphysical magic realism novella, "Fishing for Caribou", and can be found in the third book of the HaikuPrajna Collection.
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The grass is alive,\ but does not have an eye to\ see its holy world.
#HAIKUPRAJNA - Sacred Blindness
From "The Elephant in the Room" by Allen W. McLean
We hope to release all past and future books in these new formats. Please look forward to more hardcovers!
These poems are based on "Spear-thrower", the story I wrote for "NaNoWriMo" which I had based on the "Inktober" prompts from 2020. The story and poems will be featured as a future edition of The HaikuPrajna Collection. The first draft can be read through the link at the top of the page.
"SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories", the latest HaikuPrajna Collection, is available on Amazon in Paperback and on Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08Y3XFSH5
Information can be found in the link at the top of the page, along with more poetry and stories to read like "Hector Blake"!
Thank you for reading.
Until next time,
Allen W. McLean
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