Forged in Fear is not just a story—it is a reckoning. Fear is not a shadow to outrun; it is a force that tears apart, reshapes, and carves...
Founder of The Ritual Archive Editions Where fiction becomes sanctuary
Founder of The Ritual Archive Editions Where fiction becomes sanctuary
This is intimate. Emotional. Mythic. It speaks to those who have entered or are about to. It should feel like a whispered invocation.
Michael John Francis is the author of The Unfinished Silence, a profound work that confronts grief as a form of architecture and transforms absence into a powerful invocation. Through The Ritual Archive Editions, Francis sanctifies every stage of the publishing process—treating metadata, layout, and correspondence as ceremonial thresholds.
Their literature demands surrender. It is not consumed—it is entered.
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This is intimate. Emotional. Mythic. It speaks to those who have entered or are about to. It should feel like a whispered invocation.
Michael John Francis is the author of The Unfinished Silence, a profound work that confronts grief as a form of architecture and transforms absence into a powerful invocation. Through The Ritual Archive Editions, Francis sanctifies every stage of the publishing process—treating metadata, layout, and...
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You do not read this book. You survive it.
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A Threshold Letter to Those Who Have Not Yet Entered
You may have liked a post or shared a quote. Echoed a sentiment.
You may have reached out with offers, ideas, or enthusiasm.
But if you have not purchased any of my books, then you have not entered the work.
And if you have not entered the work, you are not in conversation with it.
This book is not a brand.
It is a ritual threshold.
It was not written to be admired from a distance or skimmed for aesthetics.
It was built to be felt. To be...
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