A Kingdom for the Introvert is now available on amazon.com as a kindle e-book. Since the book will be searchable from the amazon website, I’ve changed my usual pseudonym to something a little less random than ‘Gluon the Ferengi.’
What’s in it?:
-I’ve added a ‘prologue’ section. It’s a bio about my origins and formative experiences that made me who I am.
-I’ve added an ‘epilogue’, the last chapter of the book that ties up my main ideas and discusses some reflections I’ve had in the years since I began writing about introversion.
-I’ve finally grouped together all my posts on this site into a logical order that can be read as a single book.
-I’ve added a few new posts.
-I’ve converted some of my explanations in the comments section into annotations on the posts and written up some new ones where I’ve seen fit.
-I’ve made sure there’s a table of contents and a working NCX guide file that makes it easy to navigate through all the chapters and individual posts.
Update: It’s been brought to my attention that my amazon.com link won’t work properly for people from some other parts of the world. I’ll post links here to major Amazon world domains.
Canada
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
UK
If amazon isn’t a well established merchant in your part of the world, by all means, let me know who is and perhaps I can set up an account with them.
Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans etc. let me know if you’re having problems. I think you can probably order through amazon.com, but let me know if I’m wrong.
I’ve checked out your book and it’s nice.
If you don’t mind answering, which state or area did you grow up in? It’d be interesting to know and how much of an effect you think it had on your writings.
Hey, I’m really glad you like it. I only just got it out there so it’s great to have that feedback. Wouldn’t mind if you put that same opinion up on amazon.
I don’t want to be too specific about where I came from, but I will tell you that I came from the Southwest USA.
I grew up living in a desert grassland that was almost a mile high. The skies just look very large with that thin clear air. You can see an oncoming thunderhead towering all the way up into outer space. And after it rains, the air is cool, fresh, and smells of sage. The horizon was dominated by high granite mountains that shone in hues of rose and purple in the sunset.
In the other direction from the mountains, there’s a huge mesa, a 300 foot high wall of black basalt on the edge of town with extinct volcano cones dominating the skyline.
Hidden amongst the basalt rocks are images left behind by Indians who lived hundreds of years ago.
In the summer, it would be 98-100 degrees out, dry heat. So no matter how hot it got, I could go out in the desert and be comfortable under the branches of a gnarled pine tree with a book. I could see heat rippling in the distance and listen to the grasses sigh in the breeze.
In the winter, at that high altitude it would be below freezing. It wouldn’t compare to the Northern US, but something about that dry air has an extra bite when it’s cold out.
In those winters the huge full moon would come out cool and clear and icy, almost glowing and you could smell the woodsmoke from people’s hearths from a mile away.
So yeah, to answer your question, I think the area I grew up in has had a huge impact on my writing. It may have inspired me to write in the first place.
My thanks to you!
Yeah, I feel it wouldn’t be right if I didn’t support your work. It describes the introvert so well, much better than other sites. It also has more substance. This sort of frame of mind is so hard to find, especially amongst my high school peers.
I wouldn’t guessed from your writing that you’re a high schooler and likewise some readers have assumed that I was an older man.
Again, it’s all about that mindset.
I’m especially glad people stuck in schools have been able to find this blog.
I’ve focused much of my writing here on that time of life because that’s when we spend most of our waking hours working an unpaid, unproductive desk job we can’t quit year after year pitted in a struggle for social survival against the other inmates.
An experienced adult might endure nasty times of life because they’ve seen nice things.
But somehow, none of the adults I tried to talk to as a kid could ever understand the sheer horror, and soul-crushing emptiness when that’s all you’ve ever known and which is for all you know, everything that exists.
Knowledge, experience, and understanding from others are truly what separate mere unpleasantness from Hell itself.
Again, I’m gladdened to have contributed something you esteem of value.
Thank you again for your support; as people with a certain mindset begin to find each other, they’ll stick together and form their own society with its own rules and its own ideas of what constitutes value, culminating in its own mature internal economy…ultimately freeing all its members from the tyranny of a multitude.
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I just looked at the pricing information for amazon.com territories. There’s prices individually set for Spain, Italy, the UK, Germany, and France, but that price is in euros and it’s the same for each one.
So I guess I’m not sure how it would work if your country doesn’t use the euro.
I’ll see if I can figure out what’s going on.
Just looked up your IP and you’re definitely from a place that uses the euro(I’ve been there).
Should be 4.50 euros in all the euro countries.
I would have expected amazon to be a bit more wide spread. Yours is one of the member states where most kids are taught English from an early age.
Update: Here’s a link to the book on Amazon’s German site.
Will there be a paperback
No reason why there can’t be. I’ll look into it.
It’s been done. A paperback version now exists.
I am so excited about this book
just bought it, i love all of your articles and would like to thank you for sharing your thoughts, i relate a lot, after finding your site feelings of rejection and being defective are finally put to an end, thank you very much 
Thank you very much, and glad I could be of some service.
For all I knew I would publish this and listen to the crickets chirping but it seems to be selling at a steady pace.
Starting this blog at all and then turning it into a book years later has been something of a leap of faith.
I remember some time in early 2009, the early days, marveling at getting traffic every day and then 10 hits in a day. Double digits!
I was then for all I knew the only one like me. Those early posts I wrote really were an experiment, just calling out to see if I could hear an echo from some direction.
That might give you some idea how I feel about where this project has ended up. I really truly started with nothing.
I’m happy for you
and again thank you for having the initiative to create this exactly the way you did, i only regret not finding this in 2009 