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Why My Book Will Be No More

Photo by Spencer Finnley

Imagine knowing exactly what spirituality is.

Picture a world where it doesn’t come from scripture, church, or doctrine. A world where it doesn’t come from what your parents told you, or your pastor.

Imagine a version of yourself with a calm, self-assured confidence that comes from experiencing the sacred firsthand.

You can have that experience.

These words open my first ever ever book, Walk Like a God. They were written two months before I deployed.

Rich in photos, Walk Like a God expresses a way of spirituality that doesn’t follow religion. It roots the spiritual search in the act of challenging yourself, and the simple practice of walking.

It’s a love song to the natural world, to the human spirit, and to our ability to find our own way without doctrine.

And on Sunday, Walk Like a God will no longer be available.

Why?

Authors change.

In the paper-laden past, books went out of print. If all copies sold they became hard to find. Only a huge demand could conjure more.

In the digital realm authors can ride a product forever. But I don’t want to. I’m no longer the person who wrote Walk Like a God. My journey changes me, and I want my work to change too.

Digital publishing is supposed to free writers from a corporate mentality. So instead of selling and selling till the sales run dry, I’m taking it off the shelf.

I want to be clear: I still think Walk Like a God is a great book. I’m proud of it, and when I read back through it I still feel happy with what it teaches.

So you have a little time left.

Whether you’ve been putting it off, just heard of it, or simply want to have a “complete” Rogue Priest collection:

grab Walk Like a God here

But only through 11/11. At the end of Sunday, it’s gone.

Many thanks to everyone who bought, read, enjoyed, or reviewed my first book. The big question is: what do you want in my next book on spirituality?


How to Survive Adventure (even when it sucks)

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In Walk Like a God I teach you how to plan an adventure and use it as a life-changing practice.

One of the most important parts of planning an adventure is to know that there will be times when it is terrible. Times when you want to quit and go home.

Will Peach, the gonzo traveler (extraordinaire) of My Spanish Adventure, just hit one of those times.

His blog is amazing, and I hope you check it out. I feel for him, because I’ve seen exciting, over-hyped plans fail in crushing ways. I’m sure I’m not the only one.

It’s not the every-moment that makes an adventure worth having, it’s the long arc. Easy activities can be fun when they’re happening but later on they seem like a waste. You wish you had the time back. Difficult projects are frustrating in the moment, but can become a happy memory that pays dividends for years.

If they succeed.

If you want to learn how to make an adventure succeed, it’s one of five strategies covered in detail in Walk Like a God. Take a look here.

Through May 3, 2012 I’m running a contest to give away a seat at the World Domination Summit. Enter now.


An Unexpected Review

I’ve long been a fan of Niall Doherty. Niall writes the blog Disrupting the Rabblement. He defines rabble as:

  • Watching TV regularly
  • Eating lots of processed food
  • Not reading actual books
  • Working an unfulfilling job
  • Buying lots of useless crap
  • Not exercising regularly
  • Obsessing about celebrities
  • Lack of focus
  • Not offending anybody

And he makes a damn good case for a different way of life, one he’s out living himself. I consider him one of the leading lifestyle design bloggers.

You can imagine my titillation, then, when he decided to review my book Walk Like a God.

(Actually, the titillation first began when I saw that he’d purchased it—I had no idea that he’d be reviewing it, and I never asked him to.)

Niall managed to pull out some of my favorite lines from the book. He compared it to his own religious upbringing and his current beliefs. Seeing how someone applies the ideas of adventure-as-spiritual-practice to their own life is eye opening. As an author it’s rare to see how people actually take my words.

You can see Niall’s review here, along with the rest of his blog and his great free how-to Manifesto. His goal: to piss off zombies. It’s really worth a look.

If you’d like to check out Walk Like a God for yourself it’s available here.

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Update on Walk Like a God

A special update today, rogues. As you may know, earlier this summer I released Walk Like a God: an ebook about spirituality without belief, the transforming power of a life of adventure, and real-life apotheosis. If you haven’t already, check it out.

After several requests, I’ve made a printer-friendly version of Walk Like a God. The original ebook is laid out in a flowing, expansive way and it’s full color. It’s visually appealing on the screen but it doesn’t print well. The printer-friendly version is 8.5 x 11″, in black and white with no images. It’s condensed down to just 44 pages, about half the original. All the same content is there, and it’s laid out for double-sided printing with offset margins in case you want to put it in a binder.

Both versions of the ebook are now bundled together. When you buy it, you get them both.

If you’ve already purchased your copy of Walk Like a God, the download link you received still works and you can use it to get the bundled set. In case you’ve already used up your maximum downloads, I’m sending out an email later today.

Last Chance Sale

The other piece of news about Walk Like a God is about the price. When I released Walk Like a God I wanted to make it accessible to all of my Rogue Priest readers. You guys have been amazing, so I set the price very low at $8. A friend of mine in marketing actually got angry at me for not charging more, but I wanted to start it off low. Plus, it was my first ebook – I had no idea how it would be received.

Less than three months on the market, reviews for Walk Like a God have been overwhelmingly positive. Some readers have even said it challenges the way they think about religion, which is exactly what it’s supposed to do.

Well, if you haven’t already grabbed it, you have till Sunday to get the bargain price. After midnight Monday morning the price goes up to $16. The increased price reflects the true value of the book and will help support the Great Adventure. Now that I’m on the road, I rely on my writing to make a living, and every fan makes a big difference.

If you haven’t already, get it at $8 before Sunday here at Rogue Priest only.

You want a piece of that?

This final bit of news is really exciting. Recently, Walk Like a God was accepted at Ebookling, the most innovative ebook house on the web. What makes Ebookling so great? It gives you, the reader, a chunk of the profit. 

Register for a free account and when you visit the Ebookling Walk Like a God page you can get an affiliate link. An affiliate link is a link you send to people when you recommend the book. If they buy it by clicking on your link, you get 25% of the cover price. That’s $4 for every sale you bring in.You can put this link on a blog, website or anywhere else you like. There’s no limit to how many affiliate commissions you can make; the more you sell, the better it is for everyone – you the reader, me the author, and Ebookling as our distributor.

There’s an affiliate link for every single product on Ebookling, and there are some damn good books there. So if you’re feeling entrepreneurial, or just want some extra beer money this weekend, check it out.

Thanks again for all of your support and feedback, everyone. Every tweet, share and kind word has made a difference. I couldn’t have imagined how well my first self-published ebook would sell, and your comments and criticism have made it better at every step of the way. Enjoy the reduced price if you haven’t already, and thanks for reading what I have to say in my little corner of the internet.


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Walk Like a God, Your Spiritual Launch Kit

Hi everyone! It’s with great pleasure that I announce Walk Like a God is available at long last, at the low price of US $8! Many thanks to all of you wonderful readers out there who have helped to shape the content, keep me on track and of course inspire me every step of the way.


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