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A DUCKBYTE LLC publication
Kurai Dreams is a publication that celebrates and extends the post-apocalyptic story featured on Kuraidreams.com. It has been published on Amazon in several e-book formats: a 346 page illustrated novel and an 88 page graphic novel (comic book layout). Paperback versions are now in the pre-publication phase and should be available by mid-January 2024.
Book comment by Nancy Berg
“Whoever you are, you can rest assured that Paul Stokstad loves you. You may never cross paths in this life or the next, but in his mind’s eye there’s a picture of you, abundant in singular beauty. Through these poems Paul Stokstad is wishing you well, he is praying for your safety, he is willing the peace and happiness you crave to show up one day soon at your door. Accept this gift and enter a realm of generosity.”
-Nancy Berg, Author of Oracles for Night-Blooming Eccentrics
Bucket List
This book was assembled in the middle of the Covid-19 summer of 2020. In addition to the global drama, social isolation and political traumas that colored pubic life, 2020 was the worst year for me personally in 40 odd years. In short, this book was created as a sort of bucket list project, since I had a lot of reasonably good poems scattered here and there in blogs, on Facebook, or in forgotten corners of my computer archives, and thought that I’d like to get them out into the light of day, since “ya never know” regarding longevity was on a lot of minds, for reasonably good reasons.
I’m still here, of course, as of this writing, so the book will hopefully turn out to be a mid-course comment, rather than a farewell. But I thought you might want to know that it was conceived in a serious moment, as a way to light a candle in the dark.
Book comment by Jack Kramer
“Paul Stokstad’s book puts the attention of the player where it belongs: on self-development. Only by taking a serious look at your own game, by pulling apart and examining the details of every stroke, can you put it all together again as a bigger and better game. The book has an interesting, systematic method of analysis that should take any player to a new level of understanding of their own game and of tennis in general.”
Book rationale
What if all the theatre books in the world taught people how to rehearse but not how to perform? Nothing on presentation. This odd situation exists in the genre of improv theatre books, where there are quite a few published tomes providing improv training, but nothing, really, on how to perform it in front of a live audience. This book gives all the tools that a reasonably competent adult would need to understand improv theatre, train others, form a performing group, and keep it together as long as possible. The unique element of this book is it’s focus not only on improv concepts and games but on practical guidelines for creating a viable performing group and staging improv games for live audiences. The book includes an extensive game list with staging comments.
Co-authored book
“Chronic fatigue and Chronic fatigue syndrome are commonly misunderstood and mysterious illnesses associated with severe personal loss and suffering. Authors offer simple, safe, natural and effective options with Ayurveda.”
Note: The cover image is a Bhangra Dancer, a high-energy dance that no one with any sort of fatigue could ever dream of performing.
E-Book
Poems 2018-2022