The original seeds of the tour began in 2006, following a retreat from Los Angeles. The next year was spent working and saving money while learning how to design book covers and interiors as well as how to navigate an offset printer, reading and drawing maps of many cities, outlining the location of every bookstore, coffee shop, or bar of interest. Then in August of 2007 a huge mountain of books, ten thousand to be exact, was deposited in my driveway by a trucker who refused to go any further up the mountain lane of the Byron homestead. This was the first printing of The Abstract, Tales of Wickedness and Sorrow. A week or two later stacks of free books began to appear in bars and coffeeshops throughout New York, Baltimore and Washington DC. Then in September a huge swath of the country was suddenly cased in a thick hail of books, from Oberlin to Chicago to Madison to Butte, Billings, Seattle, Ballard Freemont, Olympia, Portland, Eugene, Astoria, down the Pacific Coast Highway to Oakland, Berkeley, San Fransisco, Los Angeles and all of its surrounding environs, before returning via Denver to Chicago and back to Myersville, MD. They would appear in bars, restaurants, coffee shops, atriums, bookstores, whoever would take them. Over the next year the first edition was bled out, and the mountain was chipped away bit by bit, until it finally ended in Silver Spring MD, on a streetcorner outside an arts and crafts fair.
Then, with nothing better to do a second edition was soon quickly ordered, this time with an alternative cover that was chosen by popular vote, and second alternative that was chosen by dictatorship.
That year the books were once again distributed in the same fashion, between trips to New York, or Baltimore or New Haven or Miami, anywhere that seemed worth going to.
All that while, another book Revisions of was being fine tuned to be distributed in a similar manner. Though it had preceded the Abstract originally, Reivisions of was rewritten some ten times over the next eight years, until it was finally ready to be released in August of 2009.
So now began Mach III of the zero dollar tour, another ten thousand books will be scattered throughout the country in a foolish manner. 
Coming Soon from BPP! In pursuit of youthful freedom, Linus sets out from his home and moves into a trailer park with some of his friends, where they may live the lives of carefree wastrels. It is not what he expects. His best friend Rex mysteriously vanishes one evening, and his roomate John has begun to surround himself with disreputable vagrants, his job at the gas station becomes increasingly unstable. At the same time Linus is haunted by his neighbor Clyde, an elderly security guard who seems to appear at any place and any time, often spending all evening at the window watching them and peering through their lives.
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