Of Forests and Clocks and Dreams (Arcane Edition)

Of Forests and Clocks and Dreams

A Literary and Art Collection by Takatsu

“[His pieces] have a timeless quality, little legends or fables that enlighten or explain a philosophy of life, a zen moment… [they] touch on an innate mystery of things that your stories allow one to see.”

– Patricia Keeney, Professor of Creative Writing at York University, Award-winning Poet, Critic, Author of One Man Dancing

“A thought provoking work that will leave the reader questioning the very existence around them… [Takatsu] always seems to be breaking the rules and combining various mediums of art… The pioneer of English Cell Phone Novels has continued to approach writing—and art as a whole—in different ways, breaking and manipulating constructs to produce work that, while still holding ties to the written word, manifests into something that defies its very foundation…A great glimpse into what the future of the written word—and art as a whole—can be.”

– C.J. Garrett, Author of Memoirs of a Zygote (Trapped in a Human’s Body)

“Takatsu is a fascinating writer, musician and illustrator and is at the forefront of transmedia storytelling.”

– Rowena Wiseman, Author of Searching for Von Honningsbergs, The Replacement Wife, Bequest, Silver.

“I am awestruck at the philosophical stance of your writing. Your writing is akin to that of Murakami in its surrealist execution.”

– Shane Oltingir, Wattpad Reader

Acknowledgments: Patricia Keeney, Mae Claudette Costan, Wattpad, Joeseph Simon, Aaron Sheng, Cody Garrett, Amanda N. Butler, Hannah Supangkat, Christopher Soriano, Lucas Edel, Monica Vo, Gummy Sonam, Tomoko Irie, Tiffany Ferentini, Courtney Bragan, Crystalfur, Koinuu, Joseph Jammer Medina, Jenny Mao, Jack Jamieson, Matt from Taykobon, Alexander Qian, Lori Comerford, Tabby Irvin, Hiiro-sama, “Legendary Pirate King & Keyblade Master Alex Wang”, Jonathan Evey, Adrian Chew, Nur Arina, Tommaso, Jia Wei, Jeanette Revie, Tom Plaskon, Thomas Farrell, Rylan, Ken K.J. Onoda-Song, John Rackham, Astrid Assmann, Dennis Chia, Vincent Su

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About the Author

Takatsu, known as a passionate trailblazer of online literature and transmedia storytelling, is an award-winning writer of literary fiction, featured Wattpad author of 15,000 followers, poet, philosopher, musician, designer, guest speaker and Literature student from Toronto. In 2008, through coming-of-age story, “Secondhand Memories” (Sakura Publishing), he pioneered the Japanese “cell phone novel” phenomenon in the English-speaking world, marking a new online literary movement among thousands of young writers and readers globally with a remarkably unique serialized fusion of simple haiku-like poetic technique, visual text flow, multimedia and micro-prose storytelling. In 2014, his critically acclaimed dystopian magical realism philosophical literary novel, “Espresso Love” won the Watty’s Award and reached 900,000 reads in nine months. “Of Forests and Clocks and Dreams”, a visionary post-modern literary, art and fragments collection will be published by Inspiritus Press. More on the Author Page >>

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