What is my book about?

My book is about man's desire to take something of beauty and transform it into a capitalistic endeavor. I'm not saying 'down to capitalism' just keep in mind what happens to a thing of beauty when it goes from being available to all to being available to few. The book also picks up the view of social class. No matter how I set up the fantasy world there will always be issues of social class. Capitalism and social class go hand and hand. If you lack capital you will be of a lower social class than one who has more capital.

I use the concept of a world within worlds. The world I created has a main portal gate that aids to in traveling from world to the next. It is the only link between worlds but for the world I created the link between locations occurs in a room that is off the main portal gate called the 'hub.' The hub is a circular room with thirty-six doors all the way around. The floor of the hub has a mosaic tile compass that helps direct the user to the desired door. The hub is not a room that can be accessed by all--only 37 people have keys with 36 portal gates that are imbedded into mirrors found at set locations. Why 36 doors? I read once that a circle can be divided into 6 even pieces. So, 6x6=36. This sounds like a simple thought but consider at the time I came up with this there was only 20 cultural groups I have come up with. I spent 4 weeks coming up with 16 more.

The title I have chosen for my book is: The Chronicles of the King: All the King's Men. The title came about from the knowledge that a king is nothing without the men around him--or you could say the company he keeps. A king can have to power to rule the world but if he has no one to enforce his rule he really rules nothing.

The transition from a magical world governed by those who inhabit the world to an Oligarchy where the world is viewed through capital gains is harold by a holocaust of those who are viewed as being in the way of progress. The most historically famous holocaust was the one endured by the Jewish people but the holocausts in the USA involved the Indians and the view that they were in the way of progress. I reviewed many forms of mass genocide from all over the world focusing on the survivors tale and the main facts of the event. So many of them happened in my life time that it bothered me I could only remember a few. I guess it is true that if a reality doesn't occur close to home it is hard to relate.

I did leave room for many love stories, coming-of-age story lines, and light hearted moments that make you laugh. Its hard to take the whole concept and reduce it to a few words that describes the book as a whole but for the sake of getting it published I have to resist telling the whole tale and strip it down to the bare bones concept.