This revised edition of The Mombaccus Expansion [or The Exploding Fete or Animals in the Yard and Other Circumstpectoins] replaces the original 2022 edition, which regrettably was published to a print-on-demand platform in error, with editorial notes remaining and the completition of the work es-sentially not yet achieved. It occurred first to the author to invent fictional lore around this in an attempt at humor or obstuse artistry. One idea was to claim that the founder of Aqua Fox Press had endured some variety of mental collapse or derangement, absconding to a far region of the world never to be seen again. But in truth, the author himself had founded the press, and it was him alone who tried to produce a bound galley for his own purposes and sim-ply went about it incorrectly. Steps were taken to undo what had been done and make the title invisible to the world, but Amazon rules the publishing world and they claim there is no mechanism to obliterated a book. All other parties seem to follow suit.
Unfortunately, the story worsens for the author. The pandemic came, his mental health declined, he was not OK, and the error was repeated with a second title: Omnibus. This is now understood as a manifestation of a pained attraction to self-sabotage. Even a title released intentionally, The Exploding Fete, which had been agented and nearly sold, was not in optimal shape production-wise.
Skipping to the happy ending: the author, now a father, after some losses naturally, has rebounded with the publication of the comic thriller mashup Love & Theft ("suceeds as both literature and entertainment" —Kirkus Re-views), and the repair of all botched titles.
Lastly, though, as a continuation of the campaign to repair his credibility as a literary artist, the author wishes to express his regret for his over-reli-anance on playful mockery of progressivism as a comic touchstone in this work. For readers curious about the author's crise nerveuse and who wish to consider the aesthetic principles that led him to write of characters unlike himself, despite admonitions of it being forbidden, please refer to The Island (Synthetic Prophetic, 978-1-971533-11-7).