The Quondam Empire: Limited Paperback Edition

The limited paperback edition of the Quondam Empire has arrived and will be on sale next week at Domy Books in Austin for $15.00. The book is an edition of 25 and represents Engines Roar's first foray into publishing.

Next month Engines Roar will be producing an extremely limited hardback edition as well as a free e-book version for download.

Here's a quick blurb and several reviews of the book...

This is a book full of crude humor, cussing, drinking, and sex. In it we make fun of friends, heart break, others’ struggles, and embarrassing sensitive memories. We attempt, in the most ridiculous writing device I can think of, to reminisce about things as meaningless as failed gaming systems amongst all the other ways we constantly wasted time. Therefore, this book is about the pointlessness of our lives and the experiences we shared out of boredom. Bored moments when our existence was, at best, thoughtless. The book is riddled with inside jokes, personal anecdotes, and unabashed sentiment about things that only apply to those named in the book.

And yet, in doing so, this book is about some of the most important and formative times in our lives.

As many of you know a book is something reserved for the highest order of prestige and meaning, and yet if you can deduct anything about this book thus far, you know that it doesn’t live up to that mantle. But that’s just it; that’s why this works. That’s the slight of hand we play and in turn, have been played. Roanoke doesn’t matter because Roanoke is of the utmost importance. Roanoke is the bane of our egos and the foundation for anything we accomplish. We battle constantly with the one thing that brought us true peace. And anywhere we go from here we fly it’s flag that no one other than us recognizes. Roanoke kept us isolated and united, sucked in and stuck together in our truest forms. In the absence of anything but ourselves and our surroundings, we developed uninfluenced by our endemic home. And in this vacuum, Roanoke was, and is, an empire onto itself.

“...there are many opinions of what Roanoke is.”
-roanokeva.gov

“oh my god. U R so GAY.”
-jonathan coward

“Are you really making a book? Feudal Japan?!? ...I’m speechless. ”
-scott zara

“I Live Here it gets boring most of the times there's nothing to do. I like South Carlionia Better.”
-brittany whitaker, facebook