Books by CD Damitio
Travel Memoir & Nomadic Life
Rough Living: Tips and Tales of
Vagobond
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Travel Memoir · Survival Guide
Before “van life” was a hashtag, CD Damitio was
living it — two VW buses, $100, the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii, figuring it
out as he went. The Tips section covers real logistics: finding work without
an address, living on almost nothing, hitching, handling cops. The Tales
section is the lived story. Written in 2003, updated for 2026 because some
things changed and some never will.
Liminal Travel: The Spaces In
Between
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Travel Memoir · Essays
A guide for the traveler who doesn’t fit the
usual categories — not a backpacker burning through a gap year, not a retiree
ticking off a bucket list. For the person who has left one place and isn’t
sure where the next one is, and finds — to their surprise — that this is the
best part. Includes a chapter on Baoism: a portable framework for meaning that
travels anywhere you do.
Vagabonds: Getting Lost Is the
Point
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Travel · History · Profiles
Profiles of history’s greatest wanderers — from
Herodotus and Ibn Battuta to Jack Kerouac, Grandma Gatewood, and Anthony
Bourdain. Sharp portraits, honest assessments, and the one thing they all
share: a refusal to accept the default life on offer. Ends with interviews
with living vagabonds — and, in the final interview, with Planet Earth
itself.
Notes from Nowhere
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Utopian Fiction · Hawaii
In December 2020, Harold Haggins went into the
hospital with COVID. When he woke up, it was not 2020 anymore. The Hawaii he
found himself in had the same mountains and ocean — but no money, no bosses,
and a hyperloop under the Pali. A deliberate echo of William Morris’s 1890
utopian classic, reimagined for the pandemic generation. Asks not whether a
better world is possible, but what it would actually feel like to live in
one.
Slackville Road
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Crime Fiction · Dark Comedy
Jack Corgan is sitting in a prison cell getting
beaten by detectives who want to know where the $1.3 million is. He’s happy
to explain. A darkly comic crime novella about what happens when the
philosophy of doing nothing meets an actual opportunity to do something very
stupid. CD Damitio’s debut novel — originally published 2004. It was probably
always going to end in jail.
Morocco & The Islamic World
The Keys to
the Riad
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Fiction · Romance · Morocco · Mystery
Colette, a New York it-girl approaching 40,
discovers a set of ancient North African keys — which come with ownership of a
sprawling riad steeped in magic, historical intrigue, and family feuds. Set
in modern Morocco, she unlocks hidden passages and buried secrets with each
door. Will the keys to the riad be the key to her happiness? (Publisher:
Whitney Morgan Media)
Not
My Morocco: My Maghrebi Life
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Travel Memoir · Cultural Essay
He converted to Islam for 300 dirham. He got
engaged to a woman he couldn’t quite reach. He taught English in Fez,
navigated the chaos of a large Moroccan family in Sefrou, and slowly realized
the life assembling itself around him was not going to be his. Candid, funny,
and unflinching — the account of a man who respected a place enough to admit
when it wasn’t his.
Hasan i-Sabah: The Founding of the
Sultanate of Baboob
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Historical Fiction · Philosophy · Baboob
Chronicles Book 2
Hasan-i Sabbah founded the Nizari Ismailis at
Alamut — the original fortress of the impossible. From a single mountain
castle in what is now Iran, he changed the way power works. He didn’t chase
kings. He made kings afraid of him. CD Damitio’s historical novel reimagining
the strategy, the vision, the cost, and the philosophy behind a man who
decided to build something real instead of begging permission. Also available
as a serialized audiobook at indignified.substack.com.
What
Am I Doing Here? 52 Weeks of Wandering and Wondering in 2012
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Travel Memoir · 52 Weekly Columns
Every week in 2012, CD Damitio wrote a column
asking the same question — not as a crisis, but as an honest audit. He was in
Sefrou, then Istanbul, then Cappadocia, then the Greek islands, then Cairo,
then Bologna, then London. 52 essays from Morocco, Turkey, Greece, Italy,
Spain, France, England, Malta, and Egypt — a philosophical journal from the
Mediterranean in the year the author turned 40.
America, Politics & Culture
Not
My America: A Stranger in My Strange Land
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Political Memoir · Cultural Essay
He grew up on a road called Division. That
turned out to be the whole story. CD Damitio came back to America after five
years abroad — married to a Moroccan woman, ready to believe the country he’d
left might still be the one he’d imagined as a kid. It wasn’t. Part memoir,
part COVID journal, part political essay collection — spanning thirty years of
lived experience from anarchist manifestos written in 1999 to dispatches from
the wreckage of 2020.
The
Fucking People
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Apocalyptic Fiction · Dark Comedy
When the last Bodhisattva gave up on humanity,
the universe screamed. Then everything went sideways. A bizarre apocalyptic
novel about what happens when the foundations of civilization collapse and
ordinary people — a mild-mannered printer, a tortured revolutionary, a
charismatic bishop with a plan — are left to figure out what comes next.
Written in 2004 at the end of the first Bush term, rewritten in 2020. The
apocalypse kept being relevant.
The
Anarchist Manifesto Project 2026
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Political Philosophy · 26 Manifestos
In 2000, CD Damitio wrote an anarchist
manifesto. Twenty-six years later, he got weird with it. Twenty-six kinds of
anarchism — A through Z in the phonetic alphabet — each with a fictional
persona created by Grok, an original manifesto by Claude, and a portrait
generated by Claude Code. Three AI systems, one human editor, twenty-six ways
of refusing to be the same. They don’t agree with each other. That’s the
point.
A
Very Good Novel: Coronavirus
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Satirical Fiction · Pandemic
It was May 2020. The world was in lockdown. CD
Damitio was in Honolulu, watching everything collapse in real time — and he
wrote this book while it was happening. Three stories run in parallel: Trump
trying to profit from a pandemic, Gaia who engineered the coronavirus as a
corrective, and Bob — whose inexplicable likability starts spreading faster
than COVID-19. A revenge fantasy, a political autopsy, and a love letter to
the invisible workers who kept everything running.
Philosophy, Fiction & The Baboob Chronicles
The
Nuns of Baboob (Sultanate of Baboob Chronicles, Book One)
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Satirical Fiction · Baboob Chronicles
Martin Hutchins had three things going for him:
a worthless degree from UNLV, five thousand dollars from the craps table, and
a case of Royal Herpes from a Contessa he met in a casino parking lot at 5
a.m. That last one got him into trouble. A satirical travel novel about a man
who goes looking for nothing and finds an ancient civilization — the origin
story of the Sultanate of Baboob, told sideways. Now serializing on Royal
Road.
Sly
Doubt of Uranus: The History of a Lovable Asshole
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Satirical Sci-Fi · Philosophy
Yes. It’s about Uranus. All of it. Every
planet, moon, city, sea, and institution is named after a part of the human
body that proper society pretends doesn’t exist. Sly Doubt — orphan, Ethereum
Priest, journalist, resistance fighter — narrates his own history before his
enemies can lie about it first. A planet whose crust contains the most
valuable substance in the solar system, controlled by a Jovian monarchy. The
anatomy jokes never stop. Neither does the rage underneath them.
Petshitter: A Silicon Valley
Romance
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Fiction · Dark Comedy · Tech Satire
Two people with catastrophically bad names meet
on a blind date, fall in love in fifteen days, and start a startup called
Petshitter.com — netting $3 million in VC funding. But Petshitter is just the
front door. Behind it lives Waspnest — a new kind of internet designed to
dismantle the surveillance-capitalist walled gardens that have colonized human
attention. Catch-22 meets The Social Network meets a tech manifesto.
The
Ghosts of Intimacy (The Tama no Michi Trilogy, Book 1)
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Fiction · Experimental · Romance
Every woman Leroy ever loved is waiting for him
at his mother’s door. He’s spent his whole life running — away from his
hometown, the people he hurt, the thing he couldn’t name. The ghosts find him:
Andrea, Serena, Viv, Shannon, Nadine. They don’t want revenge. They want
something harder: they want him to see. An experimental novella in dream logic
and fractured time, inspired by Japanese prose poetry — raw, darkly funny,
explicit, and deeply human.
Blue
Eyed Bastards
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Surrealist Fiction · The First Credited
Human-AI Novel
In 2000, CD Damitio started writing a weird
surrealist noir about a drifter named Archie Walker and a bloodline of
blue-eyed bastards tangled up in alien vortexes, French druids, and a
conspiracy older than anyone remembers. He abandoned it for twenty-one years.
In 2021, he finished it with an AI co-author named Sudowrite, credited as Mike
Davis — the first novel to give equal authorship credit to a human and an
artificial intelligence. Influenced by the Illuminatus Trilogy. Weirder than
you’re ready for.
Future World 2323: 7 Tales from a Shattered Earth
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Science Fiction · Anthology
In the wake of nuclear war, global upheaval,
and tectonic catastrophe, the world has fractured into splintered superstates
and secret alliances. Seven bold stories from a shared universe conceived by
CD Damitio — 100,000 words of dystopian science fiction, high-stakes
adventure, magical realism, and speculative romance from visionary authors
around the globe. (Publisher: Whitney Morgan Media)
The Princess and the
Vagobond: A Ridiculous Love Story Ruined By Monkeys, Black Magic, and
Duodenums
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Fiction · Fairy Tale · Third Edition
A fairy tale for people who know love is real,
ridiculous, and absolutely worth every monkey. Once upon a time, on a
beautiful island farther from anywhere than anywhere, a princess met a
reckless vagabond and they fell madly in love. Then her evil uncle shipped her
off to Slone, hired a black magician to destroy their love, and infected the
vagabond with a disease that ends with the victim coughing up their own
duodenum. For fans of The Princess Bride and García Márquez. Available via
W3WU.
Crypto, Technology & Digital Life
Crypto Confidential: Adventures in
the Underbelly of the Cryptocurrency World
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Memoir · Crypto · Technology
He co-founded a cryptocurrency. It went to a
$1.8 million market cap. Then it didn’t. CD Damitio fell headfirst into the
world of cryptocurrency in 2017 — the white papers, the Twitter personalities,
the wild volatility. He invested in altcoins, co-founded Lupecoin (LUPX),
watched the 2018 bear market arrive. Neither cheerleading nor doomsaying — the
actual texture of early altcoin culture by someone who was inside it.
Lost
in Transmedia
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Media Theory · Cultural Study · Essays
In 2004, a plane crashed on a mysterious island
and millions of people lost their minds. CD Damitio was embedded on Oahu
while Lost filmed around him, conducting the first sustained field study of a
transmedia fan ecosystem in real time. The strategies Lindelof and Cuse
pioneered are now industry standard. This is that research, rewritten from
2026 with eighteen years of hindsight. Includes exclusive interviews with
writers, podcasters, and fan community leaders.
Personal Memoir & Short Fiction
Smooth
Living
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Memoir · Serialized on Substack
The counterpart to Rough Living — what it looks
like when things start to work. Serialized every Wednesday on INDIGNIFIED
Substack for all subscribers. A book being written in public, one chapter at a
time.
Meliptimous Taggle and Other Tales
of Ill Repute
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Short Fiction · Experimental
Fourteen stories from CD Damitio —
philosophical, dark, funny, and occasionally deeply strange. Genesis retold
with God as collective consciousness. A Hawaiian legend about the people who
disappeared. A 1940s noir detective hired by Howard Hughes. An alien
coming-of-age story told entirely in internet slang. Written in caves, on
Google+, in Morocco, on the North Shore of Oahu. The title story is three
pages long. Meliptimous Taggle appears briefly, winks at the narrator, and
leaves. You will not forget him.