Fighting in the Dark - Preorder Now!

Hey everyone, guess what? Fighting in the Dark releases in paperback and Ebook on August 4, and is available for presale right now!

You can preorder it any of the places where books are sold, and if you go and order it you'll be doing the thing that helps authors more than anything else you can do. Preorders make bookstores and other instruments of publishing take notice. I would love it if you helped this book make a splash.

Fighting in the Dark covers essays published right here on The Reframe from 2023-2025. My readers helped me select them so you know they're the bangers, all killer and no filler. If you've enjoyed my writing and would like a low-impact way to support it, or if you want to have a physical copy for your very own, or a searchable version on your e-reader, and you'd like to receive it on the 4th of August, well my lands I have good news for you.

Order now! Get it later! Pay at that time is how I understand it works!

Ways you can preorder

1) If it's your jam, you can also place online orders on the big places like Amazon and Barnes & Noble or Apple Books or Bookshop.org (links go to U.S. sites, but it's available in other markets too).

2) You can support your local bookseller by calling them and asking them to preorder a copy. Give them the ISBN (979-8-9899949-2-2) if they ask. This will have the added benefit of letting your local bookseller know that there is an author named A.R. Moxon and there is overwhelming public interest in him—and, if you would like an author named A.R. Moxon to be invited by your local bookseller to give a reading, that is exactly how that sort of thing happens. (If you would not like an author named A.R. Moxon to be invited, but you do like confusing people, call your local bookseller and tell them that you despise A.R. Moxon and all his works—but still preorder the book.)

3) Or you can sign up for a Sponsor (Founding Member) level subscription to this newsletter, and you'll get a personalized signed copy as an automatic part of your subscription. Fighting in the Dark very literally exists because of my Sponsors, by the way, and they are all thanked in the acknowledgments at the back of the book. If you want to be part of any potential next book, and you can afford it, this could be the option for you. If you are already a Sponsor/Founding Member, you are already getting a free signed copy on publication day provided I have your latest address (and look for an email from me shortly about that). Keep in mind please that whatever you preorder will be extra copies.

4) If you would like a signed copy without the cost of a Sponsor-level membership, wait a few days to preorder. There will soon be a page where you can order signed copies from my local bookseller at retail price, and I'll send out an announcement when it goes up.

5) If for whatever reason you don't do the book-buying thing, or a book doesn't fit your budget, maybe ask your library to carry it and at the very least tell everybody. Don't tell nobody! Tell literally everybody! Run into the streets screaming about it! Paint it on the side of your local blimp! Click this button maybe!

And that's it. Go tell everyone in the way that feels right to you, then return to your day. And let's all be excellent to each other if we can; the world could use it.

“ There’s a thing A.R. Moxon does that I’ve watched other political writers try and fail at: he holds fury and tenderness in the same sentence. He names the traps fascism sets for us (the false unity, the offer of easy complicity, the fake peace that asks you to pretend people aren’t being hurt) more clearly than anyone I read. This is the book I’ve been handing out piecemeal for two years, finally in one place.”

—Parker Molloy, The Present Age

“ In this absolutely brilliant marriage of storytelling and political insight, Andrew isn’t afraid to speak truth to power. In fact, he gets up in its face in the middle of the cafeteria and challenges it to a fight.”

—Wil Wheaton, author of Dancing Barefoot and Still Just a Geek

A.R. Moxon is the author of The Revisionaries, which is available in most of the usual places, and some of the unusual places, and the essay collections Very Fine People and Fighting in the Dark. He can take a rainbow, wrap it in a sigh, soak it in the sun and make a groovy lemon pie.