About This Site

Introduction #

Well, hello there! How did you come to my office? This place is staggeringly large–some might even say stupefyingly so. Out of all the places you could have been directed to come, of course, you showed up here. “Where is here?” you might ask. Well, “here” is the Celestial Intelligence Agency or CIA as we like to indulgently refer to it around the water cooler. We don’t actually have a water cooler. You wouldn’t know about us yet as the author hasn’t written that book yet. As you can see from the sign on my desk, I am called R. Scholar. Not to be confused with RStudio, or R markdown, which this communication just happens to be written in used to be written in. Rogue markdown? The R, naturally, is a crude stand-in for the rest of my title, if you will, which is, succinctly, Rogue. Put them together, and there you have Rogue Scholar. Add a definitive article, and you will have THE Rogue Scholar, which is how we eccentric spacetime characters like to self-identify and label. You, well, you are here because you are a possible recruit. The thing about recruits is that it is not always easy to know who or what is recruiting or for what purpose–especially by fellows with abstract-sounding titles and definite articles for names. I would positively wince at the mention of someone who was recruiting who insisted, for instance, that his name was “The Boss”. Somewhere a solitary snake of clandestine origin weeps tears within a video game console. How cliché! Snake Plisken has left New York. Whatever is happening now, it is more akin to the draft wherein your number comes up and you go and serve. Voluntary recruitment has, sadly, ended.

Now you are in my office for one of two reasons:

  1. You wound up here in some temporal vortex by mistake. (Happens all the time! Don’t feel bad, you won’t remember except you will wake up somewhere else without a great recollection of what happened! No, we don’t do any “probing”.)

  2. You want to support the work of the books I make appearances within by donating or purchasing them or things related to them. (The sky is the limit at zombo.com. The limit is limitless, at zombo.com!)

The Skinny #

As The Rogue Scholar I am a character in a world in a dimension which adjoins to your own. As such, in order to exist along with said dimension, all I require is an author to write about me and people to then read what has been written. My needs, parallel to your world, you might say, are simple. I am, quite literally, “sustained by the word” as another Being above my pay grade likes to put it. Naturally, then, I, and the agency, have an interest in making sure the author is taken care of and is able to speak and function in such a way that he is in peak form. I do not know if you are aware of it but the publishing and record worlds of your dimension are a mess to put it lightly. Contracts are spun that create merchandising and various other rights that place money in the pockets of those who are not the author in large percentages. Most authors or artists are encouraged to sign these binding agreements which effectively gives the control to people who are NOT the artist or author. Some say there is even a nefarious other nightmare agency that goes by some very familiar initials that try to control who can write what by controlling the REACH of a given author. The audacity! Controlling the reach of the CELESTIAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY! Can you imagine?

The author, though, well, he all ready wrote the first novel about me in 2010 and lacking a clear place to do what is being here outlined, waited until later and made use of the blockchain publishing ability to place the work for the public to read it and also to be able to support it. (1)And now of course, you cannot swing a dead cat without hitting something titled The Rogue Scholar. Pshaw! 🐈🐱 The title of this first novel I am rather fond of as it is called “The Rogue Scholar: The Rogue to Victory”.

The next work, entitled “The Celestial Intelligence Agency: Interstices” is under way. Previously, we reached out to you, Johnny Q public, for funding and crowd sourcing the work. That time, as noted, has passed. Now the options are either to buy the book or books or donate from the goodness of your excess because you want to support the product on principle. The Celestial Intelligence Agency: Interstices is currently on track to be available only for friends and family and supporters. This means that the big platforms are going to be excluded by design. Likewise, there will be no “free reading” of it, as the “free lunch” is the first book. (2)In other words, we have moved on from crowd funding and moved into a very tight kind of shareware where there is something for something in return. Of course, the first book is still free, so we are more like the Apogee of old?

So How Do I Contact You? #

Well, you are on this page, so mission accomplished right? Oh. No. You meant you want to move to some other more “private” channel. Fine. I’ll give you something to try out.

Contact Info #

You wanna email me do ya? Okay. Send your email to: astrodeli23coin(dot)zil(at)ud(dot)me

Replace the (dot) and the (at) with the appropriate symbols. We have to keep the bots and scrapers on their toes, don’t we?