Erik Larson 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

Debut author of The Kikiloa Chronicles. I also explore how the decision revolution impacts business leadership. Cloverpop founder. CA. HI. Stand with Ukraine.

[Erik Larson 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @erikdlarson]

I'm serializing my book, a metaphysical-literary time-surfing epic, for free on Substack!

I am Kikiloa, Mitochondrial Eve, the tragic 200,000-year-old grandmother of us all.

I’m also a hyperkinetic teen time-surfer and part-time philosopher. Go figure.

https://t.co/LWTqeSAG1G

[Erik Larson 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @erikdlarson]

So nice to get this spontaneous note from an ARC reader, made my day!

"I've been ARC reading your book and wanted to reach out and say how fun and crazy it is. It's a real thinker. Looking forward to posting my review.

Congratulations on such a lovely book."

🤙

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Next chapter is up! Kiki is back with the kids.

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Kiki’s first time-surfing session. “This is not a good start.”

[Erik Larson 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @erikdlarson]

The Kikiloa Chronicles is about character-driven coming-of-age adventure, propulsive writing, psychological and philosophical depth, and epic time-surfing myth. You can read it for free on Substack.

[Erik Larson 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @erikdlarson]

Back to Kiki and Paha's first meeting.

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True.

[Erik Larson 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @erikdlarson]

A metaphor for many things.

[Erik Larson 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @erikdlarson]

Kiki’s her own person, but she does give Mrs. Whatsit vibes sometimes.

[Erik Larson 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @erikdlarson]

I've written a fun time-travel multiverse coming-of-age love story novel that is really a study of projection and illusion -- how our hopes and search for meaning distort our perceptions -- and how letting go is the first act of love.

I'm searching for readers in the center.

[Erik Larson 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @erikdlarson]

The next chapter is up!

[Erik Larson 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @erikdlarson]

I'm looking for avid readers who loved A Wrinkle In Time as kids (or adults 😉) and wish there were a book like that for us now.

[Erik Larson 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @erikdlarson]

But they did.

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🤙🤙

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Kiki’s relationship with Paha is a time-crossed tension.

Her hope in the face of suffering inspires him, yet her independence feels like abandonment. His playful confidence intrigues her, yet his bids for connection land like arrogance.

They’ve both got some work to do.

[Erik Larson 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @erikdlarson]

Excited to have The Kikiloa Chronicles serialization featured on https://t.co/vUTgwrqio8. Check it out.

[Erik Larson 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @erikdlarson]

The new first chapter of my epic time-surfing book, The Kikiloa Chronicles, is live on Substack.

Read it and subscribe for free today! 💪❤️🤙

https://t.co/0wn9QrrND5

“I met Paha for the first time on the day my first life came to an end..."

[Erik Larson 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @erikdlarson]

My 19-year-old son read my book. He texted me:

“Just finished your book. My only real complaint is that it’s not long enough.”

It’s ~400 pages. 🤷‍♂️ He devours epic fantasy and sci fi.

Then he added, “It was one of the best books I’ve read.”

Talk about burying the lede‼️

[Erik Larson 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @erikdlarson]

@MatthewBerryTMR the Guillotine Leagues app is the comically worst app of any kind I have ever used. It is never right during games, super-un-fun. Can’t even do basic addition. Bizarre. Used to be good.

[Erik Larson 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @erikdlarson]

@PaulCharchian Yeah, such a bummer. @PaulCharchian I appreciate what you did to champion the format. Thank you.

[Erik Larson 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @erikdlarson]

@PaulCharchian the Guillotine Leagues app is the comically worst app of any kind I have ever used. It is never right during games, super-un-fun. Can’t even do basic addition. Bizarre. Used to be good.