Courage.

We need it to live in the world.

Courage isn’t something we only pull out when making a grand, political statement, something in reserve for when we want to stand out. Sometimes, it takes courage to simply be ourselves, to search through the many strands of our world and come up with joy.

Artists need courage, sometimes they need it to breathe. They need courage because everything inside is telling them to defy the world; their joy comes from standing apart.

My Work of Art series is about that kind of courage, the courage to find your place and take that place, the courage to use your voice. Sometimes, it takes courage to see yourself for who you are.

I’ll be re-releasing my first two Work of Art books this year with new art, followed by the release of the third Work of Art novel with a fourth (and final) arriving next year.

The courage to find your art is the courage to find yourself.

Newest Releases!

For Ken La Salle, any 21st century American existentialist philosophy must, after half a decade of division, begin at the core of that division, not with the memes or the keywords but with the instrument of division itself.

Some of those instruments, like ICE or MAGA or even religion, appear to be the key but they are simply manifestations of our division. Our fawning over billionaires is a manifestation of what divides us. Our love of guns, our ideas of “charity,” property value, our veneration of our military – everything from gambling to psychics – they’re all just a manifestation of the divisions we build all around us.

We have a perfect metaphor for the divisions we build, that we constantly build, all around us in the fences encircling our homes, our schools, cities and country, dividing you, defining you. We build them all the time in ways both literal and figurative.

Welcome, then, to Fences. Fences is an anti-division, anti-gambling, anti-“charity”, anti-psychic, anti-manifesting, anti-religion, anti-politics, anti-military, anti-gun, anti-billionaire, anti-ICE, anti-MAGA, anti-fence plea to a dissolving America.

Caught between a desperate search for power and the unrelenting advance of technology, The BreakThrough is coming for humanity. Generations ago, thousands were saved from an unabating plague, spirited off to another world where magic flourished all in search of just one thing.

Many worlds have been caught in The BreakThrough. Many worlds have been obliterated in the wake of their failure, many systems destroyed. In the wake of that destruction come the Collectives to reap the plunder of shattered worlds. Dreamers, the slaves of the Collectives, are sent in to every system to toil and to die for the Collectives. The Dreamers have been sent to our solar system, as well.

The BreakThrough is coming and, with it, the destruction of all that we know.

Max Dedge is an unlicensed detective out of Los Angeles. He won’t save you.

Sue Jorgensen is no Queen of Space; she can’t save you. She’s still trying to save her own son.

And Arturo Delgado is nothing but a thief of extraordinarily meager skill, possibly with self-esteem issues.

The Earth doesn’t stand a chance.

The BreakThrough is coming. You don’t want to be caught on the wrong side.