The Official Site of Author, Joseph D. Newcomer
Of all the things in all the world I hope to never be, it’s a person who’s convinced they know things that we can only just believe. Of all of the species on the planet, we are the only one that attempts to convince itself that it knows things that it can only truly believe. [...]
We dismiss the contrarian. We ridicule the eccentric purist. We hold strong to our first instinct and our entitlements. Our thoughts are beyond reproach. And we are wrong on every account. We can be fooled. We will be fooled, time and again. We need more than ever to reconsider, to accept our folly, to consider [...]
Diminishing Return Diminishing Return is my contribution to the hope for compassion in society and the support of suicide awareness. It may not change the world in any large way, but I hope that for some of you, it will serve as an encouragement to continue to give a damn about each other despite our [...]
My next novel is now finished, and I am in the process of seeking representation. This can take some time. In some cases, it's more than a year before you hear anything back from agents and publishers. I wanted all of you to know what it is about and that, regardless of how these submissions [...]
Seeing anything as absolute keeps you from understanding anything beyond what you’ve limited yourself to understanding. It’s not knowledge that would lead a person to this end, it is desperation. Desperation begs for an ultimate answer when an ultimate answer is an unknowable impossibility. You simply cannot know. You can believe. That will need to [...]
