{"id":16154,"date":"2012-08-09T09:34:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T16:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=16154"},"modified":"2012-08-09T09:34:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T16:34:23","slug":"love-sex-and-philosophy-my-book-the-unfallen-is-available-on-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16154\/love-sex-and-philosophy-my-book-the-unfallen-is-available-on-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Love, sex and philosophy: My book The Unfallen<\/em> is available on Kindle."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>My novel The Unfallen<\/em><\/a>\"\" is now available as an Amazon Kindle eBook. Here is the way I blurbed the book when I wrote it:<\/p>\n

The Unfallen is a very sexy book about philosophy and a very philosophical book about love and longing. It’s written about and for smart, productive people who live to love their lives…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can summarize it Ari Gold-style with three quick synopses:<\/p>\n

1. It’s a very romantic novel about philosophy.<\/p>\n

2. It’s a send-up of genre romance fiction, a literal inversion of the bodice-ripper how-to book called “Adventurous women, dangerous men.”<\/p>\n

3. It’s fifty shades sexier, celebrating the splendor of real love, not the squalor of degradation.<\/p>\n

Here’s an extract from The Unfallen<\/em><\/a>\"\", the poem that was the instigating cause of my own marriage:<\/p>\n

you come to me by starlight
\nin a gown of gauzy white
\nyour sacraments revealed concealed
\nhigh priestess of the night<\/p>\n

you whisper vespers whisper prayers
\nwhisper vows of faith and fear
\nin still and silent grace you stand
\nas i in trembling awe draw near<\/p>\n

i kneel in worship grasp your hand
\npress it to my searing lips
\npray god to know the endless peace
\nflowing from your fingertips<\/p>\n

you come to me in night divine
\nyour glory lit by crowning gold
\nyou consecrate by hungry glance
\ndevotion’s heat in evening’s cold<\/p>\n

you come to me i kneel i stand
\nyou lay me on the dewy ground
\nyou guide my worship guide my hands
\nlead my heart your heart to sound<\/p>\n

you speak to me with loving grace
\nyou catechize in passion’s glow
\nyou reach you teach you seethe and burn
\nand i am blessed by truth to know<\/p>\n

you come to me in gauzy gown
\nhigh priestess of the night
\ni lay in awe in faith in fear
\nlifted to your heaven’s light<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I want you to buy this book, but before that, I want you to help me promote it. If you’d like a free review copy, just say so<\/a>. The quid-pro-quo is that I will want you to write a review of The Unfallen<\/em> at Amazon.com<\/a>. And I would love it if you would recommend the book to your warm network by email, blog or Facebook.<\/p>\n

My vow: The Unfallen<\/em><\/a>\"\" will more than repay your involvement in the form of a happier, sexier, more-fulfilling marriage. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My novel The Unfallen is now available as an Amazon Kindle eBook. Here is the way I blurbed the book when I wrote it: The Unfallen is a very sexy book about philosophy and a very philosophical book about love and longing. 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