In Search of a Cyclops

I want to see if with a blog I can get Nothing going! So far, it is a tiny bit stuck.

I wrote a book on nothing. The book — titled The Proof of Nothing — was published in 2000 by Penta Publishing in San Francisco. Despite the funny title, about 500 copies were sold in stores around the San Francisco Bay Area in the two years following publication. Naturally, I sent out many copies to various sources, but I did not receive much feedback, except for two important events.

The first event took place in 2003 in the Southland (during the big fires down there in October); by sheer coincidence, I was invited to the tv talkshow 'Local Talk' by Bill Rosendahl, who is now a councilman for district 11 in Los Angeles. A panel asked me many questions about nothing, and it was actually fun to be on the show. There was a bit of wishful thinking on my part: I had hoped to attract some viewers to my website — the address was visible on the screen during my 15 minutes of fame — but when I came home, I saw that nobody new had visited the site.

The second event happened this year, when I googled and saw that Dr. Hossein Arsham of the University of Baltimore had put my book in with the foot notes for his 'Zero Saga,' an academic paper on the number zero. That made my day (week actually) since I had written the book not only for anyone interested in how everything (and nothing) fits together, but I was (and still am) particularly eager to write for scientists in particular — even when my writing style is not that academic.

In the mean time, I created a website, gave the book a new online title — In Search of a Cyclops — and the first chapter is available for free. If you want to read it and give feedback? That's definitively appreciated.

http://www.pentapublishing.com

So, do you think there is a chance to get Nothing going?