Publishing for humor, wisdom, love, and inner growth
Publishing for humor, wisdom, love, and inner growth
THE HUMOROUS SAGE™ SERIES
The Humorous Sage™ looks at love, ego, fear, and ordinary human behavior with warmth, absurdity, paradox, and enough wisdom to be useful without requiring the reader to become unbearably serious.
WHAT THE SAGE KEEPS LOOKING AT
Each volume takes one ordinary human territory and turns it just enough for something useful—and sometimes ridiculous—to fall out.
LOVE
Chemistry, commitment, hope, independence, overthinking, and the mental paperwork people begin filing after receiving a three-word text.
EGO
Self-importance, defensiveness, identity, image management, and the heroic internal department responsible for making sure we are always right.
FEAR · IN DEVELOPMENT
Uncertainty, control, courage, and the mind’s remarkable ability to schedule emergencies that have not happened yet.
CURRENT BOOKS
The public series currently begins with Love and Ego. Fear is part of the developing series and will join the catalog when its book page and artwork are ready.
LOVE
A humor-first look at attachment, freedom, chemistry, commitment, overthinking, and the strange things perfectly competent adults do after developing feelings.
Explore On Love
EGO
A humorous wisdom book about identity, self-importance, defensiveness, image management, and the freedom of not taking the false self quite so seriously.
Explore On EgoFuture Humorous Sage™ volumes will appear here as their public book pages are ready.
HUMOR FIRST, HUMAN ALWAYS
The series uses humor to create perspective, recognition, surprise, and breathing room. It does not require ridicule, humiliation, or making vulnerable people the target. The point is to help the reader see more clearly while still feeling welcome in the room.
The humor is affectionate rather than harsh. It can expose absurdity without stripping anyone of dignity.
The wisdom remains understandable and practical. Humor opens the door; it does not replace the point.
Stories, reversals, playful literalism, and unexpected turns keep serious subjects from becoming embalmed by seriousness.
THE GUIDE IN THE ROOM
As The Humorous Sage™, Addison works through paradox, playful literalism, reversal, gentle misdirection, story, and the occasional strategically placed absurdity. The aim is not to win an argument with the reader. It is to loosen the knot just enough for another way of seeing to become possible.
About Addison
ENTER WHERE IT FEELS ALIVE
Begin with On Love if relationships, freedom, chemistry, and overthinking are already occupying office space in your head. Or browse the wider BIG catalog and enter through a different doorway.