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Preface & Caveat Lector
A Dark Confession
Perhaps when you bought this book you were under the impression that it was written by a certified
type practitioner with thirty years of experience. Boy were you wrong!
The type practitioner certificate costs $850, and I’m too poor to afford it. As for decades of
experience, well.
So before you make any major life decisions based on this book, you’d better be aware of the
following:
Myth: The author is qualified to give me advice about my life.
Truth: The author knows just enough to be dangerous, and she’s been wrong before.
Myth: The author has a degree.
Truth: Yes, in Geology.
Myth: This book was painstakingly researched.
Truth: This book was haphazardly researched. The author read one of a dozen available studies on
each area, the rest being inaccessible due to various reasons. It's a fact of life that studies tend to
contradict one another, and the author would not be the slightest bit surprised to find that
information in this book turned out to be wrong after further research. Besides errors of fact, there
are no doubt numerous errors of omission. The author is confident that this book is missing vital
information that would change a reader's perspective upon the information presented.
Basically, all you’re getting is a jumble of stuff that I happened to stumble over while meandering
through the halls of knowledge. Few efforts have been made to corroborate what you’re reading by
checking multiple sources. My only hope is that randomly selected, uncorroborated information is
preferable to no information at all.
By now you’re probably thinking, “Thank goodness she got the book checked by a real editor. At
least there’s that.” Actually, this book was self published. But you probably figured that out by the
second sentence. All I can say is caveat lector—let the reader beware. I apologize in advance for