Travis J I Corcoran is a Catholic anarcho-capitalist software-engineering hobo farmer.
Travis has had non-fiction articles published in several national magazines including Dragon, Make, and Fine Homebuilding. “The Powers of the Earth” is his first novel.
What people are saying
I’m sure this can be justified as your lovely American free speech and not hate speech or malicious communication, and yes, I’m sure Corcoran has a perfect right to say it and all that shit. Guess what? I have a perfect right not to like it, and a right to wish not to be associated with the nutter who spews it.
— Warren Ellis, author of Transmetropolitan, Iron Man Extremis, The Authority
I don’t think what Corcoran wrote should be criminal, but it’s certainly stupid, ill-advised and, frankly, immoral. Corcoran calls himself an anarcho-capitalist. Which is fine I guess. I’ll leave it to anarcho-capitalists to figure out if they want him. But he isn’t remotely libertarian.
— Radley Balko, Huffington Post senior writer, former analyst at Cato Institute
I’m left wondering – how is Travis Corcoran still a free man?
— The Daily Kos
You must be the guy who runs a business up in MA and had a blog called “Dispatches From TJICistan” (or something similar). There was an absolutely excellent post there about the economics of running a business. IIRC, there was something in there about the owner being paid last, and taking the first pay cut.
Any chance that could be found? I’d love to link to it.
TIA
Just read your tweets about removing rocks from New England soil.
Once I finished laughing…
I have no idea where you live in New England, but everything I’ve ever read about farming in New England historically suggests that all those stone walls? Yeah. Virtue of necessity, somewhere to put all the rocks.
Remember the original settlers spent hundreds of years farming and removing the rocks they found and every spring there were more, and when Ohio and the Midwest opened up, they basically all took off for the better soil. The archives are full of letters home saying basically “Dear Family I left behind, the dirt here is better, sell/leave get your flinty derrieres out here and leave that useless rock farm behind.” Pastoral farming took over except for a few patches/river bottom land for feed.
That being said the remnants hung on for 150 years until the 1950’s, but the pattern was clear, the old man would die, and the farm would go out of production.
That describes Northern New York as well.
Where can one get a hold of said books now that kickstarter is over?
thank you!
Hi there where can i buy the second kindle book in this series, Cause Of Separation. Cannot find it on Amazon
The 2nd book will be available at Amazon sometime in 2018. Thanks for your interest!
Causes of Separation (Aristillus #2) E book? Just sent be a doc or pdf. Please ?!
The 2nd book will be available at Amazon sometime in 2018. Thanks for your interest!
There are some ideas you might want to think about for your next book. Is there a way send those to you without posting?
My initials are “TJIC”. You can reach me at that username at that domain name.
I am always curious to hear ideas about marketing / publishing / etc., but I am actively NOT looking for plot / characterization / other ideas – I take pride in the fact that my novels are 100% my own creation and don’t want to muddy the waters by having anyone else make suggestions. The worst case would be if someone made a suggestion that I already had in mind, and then got the impression that I owe them a credit!
I’ve just finished the audiobook of ‘Powers of the Earth’, what a fantastic book. I have been getting through several audiobooks a week for many years now and many turn out to be just back ground noise. Your book sits amongst the very best.
I’m hoping the follow up in the series will also be available on audiobook soon?
Thank you. G
Thanks Gareth!
I too hope that the 2nd book is made into an audiobook. The publisher has the rights to do so.
Two things will influence them:
(1) Sales of the first audiobook
(2) fan mail
Feel free to recommend the audiobook to friends, and/or to contact the publisher!
http://podiumpublishing.com/contact/
This is literally one of the best books I’ve listened to In a long while. I cannot wait for book 2. If possible I think a prequel would be cool. I love how it seems to have such parallels with today’s society if it continues with the extremes that we are seeing.
Thanks, Steve! Really appreciate hearing it!
Book 2 is available now in ebook and trade https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B5283G2 and the audiobook is scheduled for release in November.
I have written two prequel short stories (limited release so far), and intend to write more. At some point the prequels will be bundled together into a collection.
Oh man that’s awesome news, glad I stumbled upon this when I did then haha since the audio book isn’t that far off. I wish I actually had time to read a paper copy of a book :(. Keep up the great work man and thanks for replying
When is book 3?
> When is book 3?
Working on it now!
Awesome books! Please keep making more and don’t let those knuckleheads quoted at the top of the page get you down. They are scary and sad people.
Hey sorry to post on your page again but I bought both the audio books and I am trying to figure out what books the AI/Gamma recommended John and/or the dogs to read. I would love to find those and read them. I cruised through the books and lost where that was referenced. Feel free to take this comment down if needed.
* The Starship and the Canoe
* Cowen’s ‘Ungoverned Somalia,’
* Friedman’s ‘The Icelandic Free State’
* Bennington’s ‘Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo y Federacion
Anarquista Iberica.’
The first one is real, the last three are fictional
Thank you!
Kicked off twitter so I can’t write it there, but I just wanted to thank you for your twitter Prepper threads, they put me in the right mindset and right now as my country is closing everything around me, I find myself with stocks for 2 months, laid in only a few days before the shelves suddenly emptied as everybody else caught on.
Did they ban you from twitter?
Yes, my account is on hold because of “suspicious automated activity”, and I can’t reauthorize it because I don’t have access to the cell phone that was once used with it.
I have appealed.
Fingers crossed that I come back soon.
Where is your new account? It looks like they Epstein’ed you last one on Twitter
If they nuked your kickstarter, you should talk move your website over to 1776 hosting. They host people who have people trying to report them for bullshit like “racism”. the guy who runs it, Josh, should be able to help you raising money as well on New Project Two. It is like Patreon. Josh is friends with the guy who runs it
Yeah, if they got to your twitter then they who is to say they will also not go after your kickstarter and blog. It would be wise to move them. Are you still planning to launch the kickstarter? I thought was went up today.
His kickstarter is up:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tjic/escape-the-city-a-how-to-homesteading-guide
Though I’ve no idea why his account is locked on twitter
Lots of people setting their Twitter to private at the moment, likely too many stupid current event takes.
Indeed.
Everything is fine, I just don’t want my kickstarter, which is doing well, to rack up a very good total, then 4 hours before it closes, someone digs up an old tweets and contacts kickstarter to get me cancelled.
I intend to unlock my twitter account after the check clears.
Please unlock twitter when you’re able. I don’t want an account on there, but really enjoy the homesteading and writing updates.
I’m in the middle of small town political maneuvering ; have to keep locked for now. I hope to unlock in March or April.
Wish you the best, but this is having a major negative impact on my happiness (but positive impact on my productivity). Your twitter has been my first and last stop of the day (as well as many in between). First we lose Clarkhat, then Browningmachine, now you! Seriously, like many other people, your twitter feed clued me in to prep for Covid. Thanks. I’m an Escape the City backer and look forward to reading the book and your unlocked Twitter.
Also, would happily pay a subscription to get writing by you Clarkhat and Browningmachine.
email me at tjic XXX tjic XXX com with your twitter username and I will approve a follow
That was impressively fast. Thanks for the offer. Don’t have twitter. Just read your feed on a browser.
So how bout that March/April thing? Hope all’s going well (despite what ebook implies)
Enjoying my ebook, BTW. Thanks for getting it out ahead of paperback!
Just finished Earth and starting Separation. Wow, was that excellent. Really well written and interesting. Better than Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and I am a big Heinlein fan. Thanks again for imagining a very interesting world and placing a bunch of well-drawn out characters in it. I used to follow you on Twitter, but apparently you went private. I’ll follow the instructions up-thread and hope to hear from you. One minor comment: your characters need to read a little more Hans-Hermann Hoppe. ?