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A higher level of order.*
Sometimes I feel like this bit from Chapter 17 of Communion of Dreams: “It’s all right, Jon, I’m awake,” said the scientist, still not opening his eyes. “Tops says . . . “ “Probably that I’m acting a...
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Happy Thanksgiving! (Some assembly required.)
First and foremost, allow me to extend best wishes to one and all for a great Thanksgiving (if you’re here in the US. Otherwise, have a great Thursday just ’cause.) For long-time readers, you know the...
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Making lemonade.
A couple weeks ago, I wrote this: If I wanted to, I could actually bind the book so as to read ‘backwards’ like a Hebrew Bible, though the page numbers are all in the wrong location for that. I must...
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It’s the End of the Year as we know it…
So, the WordPress Machine informs me that I’ve had a fairly busy year blogging here. * * * * * * * As I mentioned a while ago, earlier this month I had fallen prey to the nasty bit of cold virus going...
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Done with ‘backwards’.
I just printed out the following text: Following the completion of my successful Kickstarter for St. Cybi’s Well in the Fall of 2012, I proceeded to make arrangements for a limited edition print run of...
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For my next trick …
Well, we had a grand total of 340 downloads/sales of Communion of Dreams this week. Not impressive. Part of me is tempted to say that I can’t even *give* the book away. But that’s not true, and to be...
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“You remember the spider that lived in a bush outside your window? Orange...
Of late, as I have been slowly getting over the rather nasty bout of parainfluenza I mentioned previously, shedding the more annoying and disgusting symptoms, I’ve also come to realize that just now I...
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But wouldn’t (The World Series) be confusing?
A couple weeks ago, when I was setting up the price change and promotional stuff for the one-year anniversary of Communion of Dreams, I was again confronted with something I had pondered and then...
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(Another) big round number.
So, yesterday’s post was #1,500 here. The last Big Round Number was posted on December 9, 2010. Since I started the blog in January 2007, that means that the pace has actually been fairly stable, in...
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Quick pix.
Remember this? But that doesn’t mean that the book has to have an old look. Not at all. I’m playing around with some design ideas which will incorporate the cords, but which will feel more modern....
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Want a free hand-bound, hard-cover copy of Communion of Dreams?
So, I got these all done: Finished product. And I’m really pleased with the way most of them came out. Most of them. But not all. The first several text blocks I trimmed, I had the fence on my...
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Luck of the draw.
Damn – I thought I had posted an update here on Sunday. But I got busy and … Anyway. “Debi” was the name drawn from The Hat on Sunday, and she will be receiving the first of the hand-bound cloth copies...
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Mmmm … leather.
Time for the drawing for the last nearly-perfect hand-bound cloth copy of Communion of Dreams. But I want to sweeten the pot. So I’m also going to draw for a single full leather hand-bound copy....
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Mea culpa.
I just put up the following update on my Kickstarter page: 13 months ago this Kickstarter project was successfully funded. You guys did your part in supporting it. I wish I could say that I’ve...
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As the years roll by …
Seven years ago I launched this blog. We’re now within 100 visits of breaking 100,000 total visits. Two years ago today the Kindle edition of Communion of Dreams was published. Since then, some 26,000...
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Blows against the empire.*
Last week Hugh Howey, the very successful author of the Wool series, published The Report on his AuthorEarnings site which generated more than a little attention across the publishing/self-publishing...
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Artists lead the way.
One of my favorite characters in Communion of Dreams is the artist Duc Ng. Here’s the description of him when he is introduced in Chapter 2: Duc Ng was an artist. A holo sculptor, whose specialty was...
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Writing is a process of discovery …
It’s an annual ritual. Salvaging what I can of the deer netting, pulling up the long lengths of rebar which pin the support towers in place, packing up chickenwire. While it wasn’t as good a year as it...
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In defense of laziness.
I started this blog 9 years ago. Well, OK, that isn’t technically true until next Saturday. That was 1,823 blog posts ago. And something on the order of a million words, give or take about a hundred...
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Making an impression.
My, how time flies … I’m a little startled to discover that it’s been three years since I last posted about doing the leather bindings for the custom edition of Communion of Dreams. No, I know it’s...
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