FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 13, 2004 

Pre-published books for sale?  The Internet breaches the staid world of Publishing.

A portion of The Wait of Gravity: Introducing the Ossayu of Ahmenar Ishtam, a new 
book from author Stuart Malin, is available on the Internet as a free download.

(Santa Rosa, California U.S.A.) Is book publishing the next big industry to be 
chewed up and regurgitated by the Internet?  Just as the music industry is beginning 
to emerge reinvented from its turmoil, is the book industry about to fall into 
the Internet’s chaotic abyss.

Gravity, the work of emerging novelist Stuart Malin, is a thoroughly post-modern 
metaphor for itself.  Inside its pages, it tells the story of Ahmenar Ishtam as 
he sets out on a great journey to meet his destiny.  Outside its pages, it is 
the journey of Malin to meet his destiny to bring Ahmenar’s story to life. 
Malin, like his character Ahmenar, must find new ways through old mazes, each in 
a parallel effort to reinvent their worlds.  Inside the story, Ahmenar must find 
an avenue to answer deeply personal questions that will have a bearing on the fate 
of his world.  Outside, Malin must find means to his deeply personal quest to 
launch Ahmenar’s epic story, and so have a bearing on the fate of this world. 

The series, The Ossayu of Ahmenar Ishtam, is an epic adventure that is part speculative 
fiction, part fantasy, and part romance.  The tale of Ahmenar’s ossayu (a sacred 
journey to visit a shrine of historical significance) is told by another character of 
the story, K’me K’ea (pronounced kim-muh kay-uh), the revered High Priestess of the 
Worlds of Atria, who claims to be doing so for our benefit. According to Malin, 
K’me K’ea plans to tell the story in twelve volumes.  These volumes contain a single 
monolithic story, not a set of independent sequels.

The metaphors and parallels continue: Atria, the world in which the story takes 
place is much like we are, but perhaps fifty years more advanced technologically.  
Only it took the Atrians two thousand years to get from here to there as they had 
to cross a great dark age.  The story of the Worlds of Atria integrates hard facts 
of science with self-evident truths of our reality to render a poignant warning to 
humanity about the path we’re on, yet offering a hopeful Utopian vision.

Through the Internet, Malin hopes to attract attention to the story before The Wait 
of Gravity is even complete.  In an effort to fund the effort various aspects of 
publication (involving editors, artists, book promoters, and publicists), Malin is 
selling pre-publication manuscripts and subscriptions to a special registered edition 
of the twelve volumes, limited to 100 impressions. More information can be found at 
the project’s Web site http://www.ossayu.com

Stuart Malin has advised Fortune 100 corporations as a design strategist and has 
ridden the waves of the first Internet boom, building advanced web technology and 
pioneering Web sites.  For this project, besides collaborating with K’me K’ea in 
documenting Ahmeanr’s story, he’s conceiving new software to manage the reams of 
information that flood in from Atria.

A complete press/media kit can be found at http://www.ossayu.com/ows/press/press.html
Contact:
Stuart Malin
Rhombus Communications
P.O. Box 1676
Santa Rosa, CA 95402
707-591-0804
rhombus@ossayu.com