Kohōpeh

@kohopeh.com

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I write historical fantasy, speculative fiction, and mystery sci-fi (as K.H. Kohōpeh) 💙📚⏳|🖋️📚||⚙️📚🪐 https://kohopeh.com - lore, timelines, blog, newsletters, bookshelves

Neal Stephenson
Quote: "Narrative economy is an artificial constraint of the print era. If a technical digression enhances the depth of the world, let it run."
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An ad for the Advanced Reader Copy availability of the book The Kabuki Book by Kohopeh on NetGalley. The book will be available as audiobook possibly next yar.

Lois McMaster Bujold
Quote: "The map is not the territory, and the outline is not the book. The real writing happens in the microscopic texture of the scene."
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Umberto Eco
Quote: "The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text."
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Quote: "The standard narrative arc—exposition, conflict, climax, resolution—is merely a reproductive metaphor. We need a carrier-bag theory of fiction that holds things rather than just hitting them."

Lotus, Mud, Blade is on NetGalley - request it now

Philip K. Dick Quote
"The writer must destroy his own reality to find the truth of the fiction."

Frank Herbert
"There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story."
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Arthur C. Clarke:
"If you understand a concept perfectly, you can explain it to anyone without using jargon; jargon is the refuge of a weak narrative."
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"You must refrain from rewriting except to editorial order." - Rule 3 of Heinlein's Rules

an email from IngramSpark which include the tip:
"The Most Underrated Writing Tool? A Good Night's Sleep".

"The concept of a definitive text belongs only to religion or fatigue."
- Jorge Luis Borges
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Howard Pyle
"Throw yourself into your story; if you do not admire your own work, you cannot expect the world to care for it."
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Quote:
"The dynamic force of a story lies in its absolute fidelity to facts; imagination must always be chained to the plausible."
- Jules Verne

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quote: "All human wisdom is contained in these two words: 'Wait and hope.'" - Alexandre Dumas.
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the graphic just reproduces what is in the body of the post. It shows a floaty and sea stars on sand, as well as a snow covered pine tree.

Page 11 of "What is the colour of purple?" A tale from Takuan's life, by Kohōpeh. Available as promotion on BookFunnel and SotryOrigin from July 1st.
Text:
A second monk eventually appeared and
offered to guide me to the abbot. We walked
through two gardens — one raked to geometric
perfection, one apparently in the middle of
being redesigned, with several large stones
sitting in irregular positions surrounded by
contemplative silence — crossed a covered
walkway, and arrived at a low building from
which issued a sharp, not unpleasant smell
that took me a moment to identify as brine.
My guide slid the door open without
knocking. He announced, with the tone of a
man reporting a minor atmospheric condition:
“The government scribe is here.”
Then he left.
I stepped inside.
The room was small and extremely
functional. There were no decorative scrolls on
the walls, no vases, no cushioned dais.

a shiny web version of the 5-star seal from Reader's Favorites

Cover page for the book Lotus, Mud, Blade by Kohopeh. A washed watercolors painting of the temple in Phimai/Vimaya.

A yellowed library or rolodex card, with a quote typed with a traditional typewriter.
"Books are my third place...
And my second...
And my first."
signed: K.H. Kohōpeh

cover for Shamanism by Mircea Eliade, French original edition as "Le chamanisme et les techniques archaïques de l’extase"

couverture de Lorenzaccio, par Alfred de Musset

cover of The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

cover for a combined French edition of The Epictetus Manual and Marcus Aurelius Meditations

as spelled on this cover: Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

p 162 of Kohōpeh novel in progress codenamed TKB. Japan c.1600.

cover of Corto Maltese - les Ethiopiques, by Hugo Pratt

cover of Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle

cover for The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

cover of Samarcande de Amin Maalouf

cover of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

cover for El Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges

cover for The Book of Ptath by A.E. van Vogt

cover for Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

cover for The World of Null-A, by A.E. van Vogt

cover of untitled magazine, with the first serial of Le Comte de Monte-Cristo par Alexandre Dumas

cover of The Sharing Knife by Lois McMaster Bujold, volume 1 beguilement

cover for le nom de la rose, de Umberto Eco

cover for Storm Front, first novel in the Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher

cover of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein

cover page for the 110 pages novella Lotus, Mud, Blade by Kohopeh

shiny cover of Ubik by Philip k. Dick

cover of graphic novel, La marque jaune, de Edgar P. Jacobs

cover of the Word for World of Forest, by Ursula K Leguin

cover page of Arsène Lupin, 813, by Maurice Leblanc

cover page of a pulp edition of Imperial Earth, by Arthur C. Clarke

cover page of the Curse of Chalion, by Lois McMaster Bujold. A crow is standing on a boulder staring at a fortified Town on the other side of a mountain valley.

cover page of an old edition of dune, by Frank Herbert, showing Paul & Jessica climbing a sand drift towards Sietch Tabr

code page of the Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

cover page of "Et la planète sauta ..." roman de b.r.bruss aux éditions Robert Laffont