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Based off the interactive project at [ally.id](https://ally.id), this book explores different facets of my life — some true, some embellished, some wholly fictitious — in a non-linear, ergodic fashion, using color, page-layout, and mixed-media to create a book more experience than memoir.
-## Launch party
-
-You are cordially invited to attend an [online launch party](launch) on June 1st.
-
## Buying
The paperback is now available for [pre-order](https://gum.co/ally-paperback). All copies ordered direct are signed and come in a custom-made box by JD at Dog Paw Makers. You can also pre-order from Amazon or Barnes & Noble
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* "Cleareyed yet powerfully immediate . . . A fresh, daring exploration of lived experience." --- [*Kirkus Reviews*](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/madison-scott-clary/allyC/)
* "I felt I was chasing down fractions of the author's soul. Chasing them not because I got this to read and review, but because I deeply wanted to. So I could put them together and solve an ultimate puzzle whose picture would contain some incomprehensible beauty." --- [Linnea Capps](https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3236700737?book_show_action=true)
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+### Video content
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+A video from the launch party stream:
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+The ally shipping box being cut:
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+date: 2020-06-01
+title: Book is go!
+type: news
+---
+
+With all of the rush in getting the book going, I feel that I've ignored you.
+
+> You have, yes.
+
+I'm sorry.
+
+> Don't be.
+
+
+
+I should be writing more on this. I think that there's a lot of things I *need* to write about not just stuff I would like to write about. The problem is, I've been focused more on the book than the content.
+
+> Is that so bad?
+
+No, I suppose not. Even so, expect more soon. For now, please enjoy the fact that the book is now for sale! You can find all the information you need [here](/book).
+
+If you want to know more about the book, I've uploaded a video from the launch party (skip to 3:00 for the start of the content).
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+
+
+And as a bonus, if you would like to see the process of the box being cut, there's a video for that, too.
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+
+
+Now, if you'll forgive me, I am going to merge into the ground for a while and simply become earth.