Description:

As a writer emerges time chips away at his first voice weathering the layers to uncover the core voice, something that the writer inherently possesses but is initially influenced by the language of his mentors. The Etiquette Of Voice is the authors journey through prose in discovering his individual voice, most of which penned out as he worked on his first novel. The styles and themes change, ebb and flow as he peels back the layers of the man, taking residency within to stake-out the writer. Like The Etiquette Of Vice, his anthology of poetry, this too is a documentation of the authors transition into becoming a writer, a strange and complicated beast equally stricken and intoxicated by its inner commentary, self-delusions and the vices it uses to prevent insanity or worse in the repetitive circular pacing of a cage that continually seeks to reject it. This is the author’s metamorphosis from knowledge to understanding.