Twinn Swan

If there is one constant in my creative and publishing journey, it is change—a persistent, shifting current that refuses to be pinned down or simplified. When I look back at The Merchant Stories, I see not just a memoir of entrepreneurship, but a record of who I used to be: someone still shaped by inherited beliefs about business, someone still searching for the seam between creative impulse and market reality.

Time has re-written many of my old convictions. The world of publishing has become a pursuit instead of a dream, and my own ideas about what it means to be a writer, a publisher, and a seeker have grown more fluid.

There are moments—a temple puja, the slow study of an ancient text—when words lose their weight and something entirely new enters. Each is a passage into new terrain where certainty gives way to risk and renewal. These passages don’t erase resistance or doubt; if anything, they sharpen them, giving these old obstacles a different name as I continue.

Now, as November approaches, another chapter arrives. Sacrifice is my newest book. The title is both an admission and an invitation. Across decades and manuscripts, the work has never been easy or obvious; the time spent studying, deciphering, re-writing ancient spiritual texts was rewarded neither quickly or simply. But sacrifice is rarely about what is lost. More often, it is about where you end up—what you become, what you carry.

This release is not a purging. It is another step in the process of examining, discarding, reimagining—entering the ritual of creation again and discovering what voice remains. In writing and publishing at Twinn Swan, I no longer cling to the old rules. I have outgrown many of them, as the climate of business and creativity shifts around me. What endures is the willingness to keep returning, in ritual, in art, to the open space where change happens and new work begins.

Readers and fellow seekers: as Sacrifice, at long last, prepares to enter the world, I hope you find within its pages not just another iteration of my story, but a mirror for your own journey through uncertainty, decision, and renewal.