Statement of Purpose

April 6, 2010

Dear Reader:

As an extension to my fictional book project, I am including the following statement of purpose.

To balance things out a little bit, I am keeping a blog, full of what I am calling "entremeses." Entremeses were used in Golden Age Spanish Theater for different effects, but specifically with harsher narrative content in a play, an entremes between each of the acts would provide some light-heartedness to the audience's experience.

I have taken this idea, and kind of re-thought it. I don't know what is going to happen with regard to publishing when the book is done, but I have thought of having a section called "Apocrypha" at the very end of the narrative, where many authors will include an afterword. I have a whole list of possible entremeses (currently around 30), which I feel will add a little levity to the text as a whole. Every couple of days I will release one of them on my blog. http://cjcade.blogspot.com/ . In fact, there is already one there.

The actual entremeses inside of Lobos and Coyotes (between each of the three parts), will have a strategic reason for being there. To transfer momentum from one narrative voice to another.

The way I see it, my hypothetical apocrypha will allow people to see me as a person distinct from the characters in the book. As I go along, hopefully it will generate curiosity and interest in what I am doing with Lobos and Coyotes (auto-publicity).

Everyone is more than welcome to make their own contribution to this blog, so come on in and check it out! Feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested. There will be no vulgarity or explicit content in the entremeses.

Have a nice day,

Chris