About the Ebook/Ebook Series
- Who exactly is Hapax Legomenon? What is the history of this project?
- Who designed the ebook covers for Volume 1 and Volume 2?
- Reviewers: Can I request a review copy of one of the volumes of Existential Smut?
- Does the website contain explicit sexual content? How do I get this site blocked or unblocked from my Internet provider?
- Why is Volume 1 not available at Amazon or Apple or Barnes and Noble (etc., etc.,)?
- What is Ripe Mango Take Two Press? What is its mission?
Feedback/Suggestions
- How do I report a typo or grammatical mistake?
- How do I report a technical issue with the ebook or this website?
- Have you ever thought about doing a podcast or being interviewed for one?
- How do I send feedback, reviews or comments?
- How do I contact the author? the Publisher?
Submitting Content
- How do I submit a story or poem for a future Existential Smut volume?
- I want you to mention and/or review my story or book. How do I contact you?
Legal/Copyright
- How do I get permission to reproduce a story or artwork on my website or ebook?
- What about the versions I find on Z-Library, Anna’s Archive, Bit Torrent, etc.?
About the Ebook/Ebook Series
Who exactly is Hapax Legomenon? What is the history of this project?
This is a pseudonym for an author living in the southern part of the United States. He wrote all the stuff for ES 1 and ES 2, but for future volumes will simply have the role as editor. The ebooks themselves contain the history of the project, but you also find more detail about the background and history here.
Who designed the ebook covers for Volume 1 and Volume 2?
Eugenia Loli designed the cover art for Existential Smut 1. Loli is a filmmaker and modern vintage collage artist originally from Greece and now living on the West Coast of USA. I have admired her art for a while
James at Humble Nations designed the cover art for Existential Smut 2. He runs the GoOnWrite service which designs and sells premade book covers. This of course was not a premade cover, but one which I commissioned him to do. James has started to use AI tools like MidJourney to make incredible covers, and that is why I asked him to do this one. He has written a lot about his creative process on his blog.
Both artists are talented and superlative artists and have my highest recommendation.
Reviewers: Can I request a review copy of one of the volumes of Existential Smut?
You can use the site contact form or use this email as an alternative: hapaxlegomenon AT fastmailbox.net . Keep in mind that Existential Smut 1 can be freely downloaded here at any time.
Does the website contain explicit sexual content? How do I get this site blocked or unblocked from my Internet provider?
It’s hard to give a yes/no answer because the two ebooks do contain sexually explicit content. With the exception of samples, excerpts and screenshots, this website does not really contain much that is explicit.
The blog portion of the website frequently links to interesting essays and stories and multimedia that probably have sexually explicit content. If the external links have an undue amount of nudity or sexual language, I might add the label (NSFW). But I assume that you aren’t viewing this website from work anyway — shouldn’t you be doing your work?
I like to add illustrations for each blogpost — sometimes reproducing artistic works or photographs as decorations. I don’t avoid nudity here — and most of the artwork is what I would categorize as “museum nudity” — things that a 10 year old might typically encounter in a big city art museum. This is generally the same criteria I use for interior art in the ebooks.
Generally for the website I don’t use many graphics — this is generally a literary site for book lovers. Unlike a lot of major news and culture websites this site is ad-free. Sometimes serious journals and newspapers talk about sexually explicit content (Salon, Slate, NYT) without getting too much flak, and of course Netflix shows a lot of movies with sexual themes which most young people can access easily. This site really doesn’t shy away from using sexually explicit language
For the HTML content controlled by wordpress, I add a meta tag that says name=”rating” content=”adult” to the header of all pages. For other pages not controlled by wordpress, I use another meta tag name=”RATING” content=”RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-RTA” . Also when I submitted this site to the Bing and Google search engines, I have marked the website as Adult content. It can be rather difficult to find this site listed in search results. Most decent content filters could use this information to determine whether it is appropriate for young children.
Personally I do not believe it is morally right or necessary to prevent people under 18 from viewing websites which discuss sexual subjects in a serious and intelligent way. Having access to this kind of material can be healthy and even enlightening. This website does not cater to children and it does not target to children. On the other hand, there is no point in burdening this website with all kinds of extra restrictions simply because some irate parent wants everybody to think of the children.
Why is Volume 1 not available at Amazon or Apple or Barnes and Noble (etc., etc.,)?
It’s a strange and irritating story. Draft2Digital (which distributes to Apple and Barnes and Noble, etc) blocked the Existential Smut 1 ebook because there was nudity on the cover. (There is a faint outline of the woman’s buttock in the woman’s shadow — see it here). This is the kind of cretinism that I have to deal with.
But at least Draft2Digital gave a reason. When I submitted it to Amazon, it was approved twice and then permanently blocked. I never received an explanation. And after I tried to appeal the decision, I never received any kind of explanation. (I wrote about the ordeal here).
What is Ripe Mango Take Two Press? What is its mission?
Feedback /Suggestions
How do I report a typo or grammatical mistake?
How do I report a technical issue with the ebook or this website?
Have you ever thought about doing a podcast or being interviewed for one?
I have been thinking about that. Generally though, in the current year I am reluctant to do that because I want to maintain the pseudonym and avoid making it too easy for people to figure out who I am. (Eventually I will change though). I have been interviewed for several podcasts under my real name and enjoy it. I just don’t know if the experience of hearing my voice will add anything to thoughts I could have just as easily expressed in writing.
How do I send feedback, reviews or comments?
Here’s the contact form. Feel free to email here: hapaxlegomenon AT fastmailbox.net
See above.
Do you accept advertising? What about endorsements?
Generally, no, but there are exceptions to every rule. I am going to start some pages where I endorse certain products, books and services. Not ready yet, but I’ll link to it prominently from the home page when it’s ready.
Submitting Content
How do I submit a story or poem for a future Existential Smut volume?
See my submission guidelines.
I want you to mention and/or review my story or book. How do I contact you?
Starting in 2025 I will be posting semi-regular columns which review several books with sexual themes. I fully intend to read more in that genre. So feel free to contact me via the site’s contact form.
That said, my time to read and review other kinds of smut is very limited. I always love to hear about things that people have done. I like staying on top of the cool things people are doing. I just can’t promise that I’ll be able to review it. However, even if I don’t have the ability to review something, sometimes I have opportunities to feature or promote books or stories or essays which I feel is high quality.
Legal/Copyright
How do I get permission to reproduce a story or artwork on my website or ebook?
Graphics on the website is usually identified on the page it appears on (usuallly with copyright info.
The copyright of each individual asset in the ebook is described in the About this Edition and the Copyright Credit & Acknowledgements section of the ebook. You can find most of the same information on this web page. Guidelines for using/republishing portions are found here.
What about the versions I find on Z-Library, Anna’s Archive, Bit Torrent, etc.?
I actually uploaded one version of Existential Smut 1 myself to Z-Library, so I am reasonably fine with it. (I will try to upload the most current version, but it may take a while).