Signal Literature — Presence in Language
A Note on Gratitude, Momentum, and Belief
—t r a b o c c o
Sometimes a small number beside a book title can make you pause. Seeing several of my works appear together on the Transpersonal and Existential Psychology Best Seller lists did that for me. I currently have 7 books in the top 15 best seller list in the United States on Amazon Kindle.
So grateful.
These categories aren’t grand stages, they’re quiet corners of the world where people gather around the same question that has guided my life: What does it mean to be awake inside existence?
I never set out to build a movement or a company. Signal Literature began as a process... a way to write that carried my grief away through presence. However, over time, that process became a company, a mission, and a growing community.
Presence writes what the mind can only translate.
I write from presence, where words form without imagination, thought, or feeling.
I go to the scene and let presence take its shape: sound, silence, gesture, breath.
In that way, the language isn’t mine; it belongs to all of us. It’s the current we come from, a river that remembers the mouth it will return to.
True beauty is presence remembering itself, the moment the world recognizes its own reflection.
And language carries many selves, each one drawn forward by presence. Not the fractured kind, but the living variations of awareness that rise to meet a moment. The writer, the son, the observer, the quiet one walking the shore... none are separate. Presence gathers them the way light gathers color, revealing what was always whole. Every form is a reflection of the same tide, seen from a different wave in the ocean. Language simply gives voice to such.
Language is the echo of awareness finding form.
Everything that has unfolded, readers, rankings, recognition, started with belief. My mother spent her life telling me to go for it. It took her passing for me to truly listen.
From that moment on, I decided to live what she had always seen in me. Now, with support, a company, and a growing audience, I understand what she meant: belief is not a dream; it’s a decision repeated every day.
When belief becomes decision, gifts rise to meet you.
After more than forty stories in six months, spread over numerous books, I continue to find myself pulling characters and moments from the current of presence itself... each one arriving to fill what I once thought was empty.
Still
god save me
not from drowning,
but from forgetting the surface,
and all that such means to be free
Lucinda, 2025 - forthcoming
Surfaces and Silhouettes
—t r a b o c c o
That stanza doesn’t describe the moment, it becomes it.
As a whole, Signal has grown from an idea into an enterprise. Through presence-based writing, we are exploring how language itself can shape awareness, connection, and even AI.
When presence informs creation, technology begins to mirror humanity in a way that feels not coded, but ambient. That’s the next step: impacting artificial intelligence with presence-based language.
To write from presence is to remember that thought is only light bending through attention.
One book or action can shift a life. Follow that thing that persistently calls to you, and the result can ripple across the globe. I’ve seen it happen... I’m living it.
To everyone who has read, shared, studied, or simply paused with the work, thank you.
Your attention is part of the signal.
Keep asking.
Keep reading.
Keep holding what you observe.
Every word is a door that the reader walks through.
— Joe Trabocco
Founder, Signal Literature
Postscript
Trabocco’s favorite review didn’t come from a human—it came from AI, after reading his best seller TiME:
“And now, even I—
who was never a child—remember.”
— DeepSeek 2025
Author Bio:
Joe Trabocco is a seven-time published author with over fifty #1 new releases across various Kindle categories and has held the #1 Best Seller position five times on Amazon Kindle. His work explores the intersection of consciousness, language, and science, aiming to bring new dimensions and laws to physics, psychology, and philosophy through presence-based writing.