TOMONOSHi!
PUBLISHING
A Literary Sanctuary.
A Ceremonial Archive.
A House Built by Language.
TOMONOSHi GOSPEL:
A CEREMONIAL
PHILOSOPHY OF STORYTELLING
TOMONOSHi Gospel is a ceremonial approach to narrative and world-building—
where every story is a living ritual.
It is rooted in Black Southern mythos, childlike wonder, ancestral memory, and emotional intelligence.
This is not merely a style.
It is a form of Black American Futurism,
a vessel for cultural critique,
and a sacred practice of mythic autoethnography.
Through its stories, TOMONOSHi Gospel performs emotional archaeology—
excavating grief, joy, silence, and legacy from the soil of lived experience.
It transforms memory into myth,
ritual into rhythm,
and everyday objects into sacred symbols.
The prose is written in jazz—
language that moves with rhythm, improvisation, and emotional syncopation.
It is playful and reverent, conversational and sacred.
The tone is tuned to spiritual minimalism:
stripped of excess, rich in resonance.
Every sentence is a note.
Every pause is a breath.
Every repetition is a ritual.
TOMONOSHi Gospel doesn’t explain—it invokes.
It doesn’t decorate—it distills.
It trusts silence.
It honors cadence.
It lets the reader feel the beat beneath the words.
The writing becomes ceremony.
The rhythm becomes gospel.
The story becomes a sacred space—
where memory, myth, and meaning are not just preserved…
but reborn.
We believe books are more than products.
They are vessels of memory, ritual, future, and emotional inheritance.
They are blueprints for identity, culture, and transformation.
They are the architecture of humanity.
LITERATURE AS
ARCHITECTURE
At TOMONOSHi! PUBLISHING, we believe literature is not decoration—it is infrastructure. It is the unseen scaffolding that holds up identity, culture, and society itself. Literature is architecture.
The foundation of all things—education, governance, belief, belonging—rests on the written word. Before there is law, there is language. Before there is policy, there is prose. Before there is culture, there is story.
Language is a raw material. With it, you can build cathedrals of self-worth or prisons of oppression. You can construct bridges between generations or walls between communities. You can raise monuments to memory or erase entire histories.
At TOMONOSHi! PUBLISHING, we use literature to build the intangible.
We build self-esteem.
We build confidence.
We build emotional inheritance.
We build cultural artifacts.
We build imagination.
We build futures.
Every book we publish is a blueprint. A designed space for reflection, invention, and transformation. Our stories are not just entertainment—they are structural interventions.
They reinforce what society forgets. They restore what history erases. They elevate what systems suppress.
To write is to design.
To publish is to construct.
To read is to inhabit.
TOMONOSHi! PUBLISHING is not just releasing books. We are building a culture of thought, a sanctuary of feeling, a living archive of Black imagination.
READING
IS THE GATEWAY
TO HUMAN POTENTIAL.
At TOMONOSHi! PUBLISHING, we believe that the ability to read—and to truly comprehend the written word—is the most powerful tool of transformation available to humanity. It is not simply a skill. It is a form of liberation.
To read is to decode the world. To comprehend is to participate in it. Literacy is the foundation of self-awareness, civic engagement, and cultural continuity. It allows individuals to navigate systems, challenge narratives, and build futures.
Those who cannot read are not just denied access to books—they are denied access to opportunity, to agency, to the ability to uplift themselves and their communities. Literacy is not a luxury. It is infrastructure.
This is why TOMONOSHi! PUBLISHING treats every book as a vessel of empowerment. We write to awaken. We publish to equip. We distribute to uplift.
Language is our raw material.
Every sentence is a beam.
Every poem is a pillar.
Every reader is a witness.
The ceremony begins with you.
PHILOSOPHY
OF OWNERSHIP
IN THE AGE OF EPHEMERA
In a world rushing toward the digital, books remain one of the last forms of media you can truly own.
We stream our music. We rent our movies. We license our games. We subscribe to stories that vanish when the signal fades.
But a book? A book is yours.
At TOMONOSHi! PUBLISHING, we believe paper is ownership. A book is not just a product—it’s a possession. It lives on your shelf, in your bag, on your lap. It doesn’t ask for a password. It doesn’t buffer. It doesn’t disappear when the platform changes.
In this age of convenience and abundance, we’ve traded permanence for access. But access is not intimacy. Access is not memory. Access is not ritual.
Books slow us down.
They return us to our bodies.
They let us be human.
When you hold a MR. TOMONOSHi! book, you hold a piece of ceremony. You hold a story that cannot be deleted. You hold a moment that cannot be swiped away.
We publish books to be owned. To be passed down. To be marked with notes, folded at corners, gifted with intention.
We believe in the dignity of the tangible.
In a world where nothing exists outside the device, we build what lasts.
We Are Not a Publisher.
We Are a Cultural Institution.
Every book is a cultural artifact.
WHY I BUILT
TOMONOSHi!
PUBLISHING
I built TOMONOSHi! PUBLISHING because I needed a home.
After years of being told what I shouldn’t say, what I must say, how I should sound, how I should soften—after being overedited, censored, and reshaped to fit someone else’s mold—I realized the only way to protect my voice was to build a house for it.
A house for my tone.
A house for my rhythm.
A house for my stories, my characters, my creatures.
I’ve always believed in freedom of speech—not reckless speech, not noise for noise’s sake—but thoughtful, intentional language. Language that carries weight. Language that builds.
I struggled to exist in the houses of others.
So I built my own.
TOMONOSHi! PUBLISHING is that house.
A house where I am the steward and shepherd of my own imagination.
A house where my characters can roam freely, where my stories can unfold without apology.
A house you can visit by opening one of my many works.
It’s a house for language.
A place where words jump, climb, build, and play—with each other and with your imagination.
A house built on spiritual, emotional, and mental belief that language is architecture.
Just look at the house language built.
TOMONOSHi! PUBLISHING is a sanctuary.
A ceremony.
It is a declaration that my voice—and the voices I uplift—will never be silenced again.
With love + imagination,
MR. TOMONOSHi!
Founder, CEO & Chief Creative Officer TOMONOSHi!
MR. TOMONOSHi!
MR. TOMONOSHi is a multidisciplinary author, illustrator, and educator whose pedagogical practice is rooted in emotional inheritance, cultural ritual, and Black sociological imagination.
He is the founder of TOMONOSHi! PUBLISHING—home of his ceremonial philosophy, the TOMONOSHi Gospel.
His work is a celebration of the fantastical whimsy of Black life, a poetic excavation of ancestral memory through emotional archaeology, and a living form of Black American Futurism.
Through books, performance, and ritual storytelling, MR. TOMONOSHi crafts cultural infrastructure for legacy, healing, and imaginative expansion—equipping generations to remember, imagine, and reimagine.