Episodes
Friday Jul 29, 2016
Episode 141: Shandy! Sterne!
Friday Jul 29, 2016
Friday Jul 29, 2016
- The black page
- Digressions galore. I mean Lots of tangents and ‘side notes’ which can last Chapter after Chapter.
- Typographical quirkiness. The black page, the noses, the squiggles, the marbled pages in the middle rather than as endpapers, the ten blank pages the printer refused to insert so the page numbers just jump ahead ten pages.
- Amazingly colorful characters - Toby, Trim, Yorick (of course)
Thursday Jul 28, 2016
Episode 140: Working!
Thursday Jul 28, 2016
Thursday Jul 28, 2016
- Putting Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne on computer, in InDesign & iBooks Author readying them (Nine Volumes) for release in iBooks and other epub related venues
- Putting my Calvado Pentology on the same computer programs for the same venues
- Putting Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman on the same for the same.
Wednesday Jul 13, 2016
Episode 139: Sales Step #1
Wednesday Jul 13, 2016
Wednesday Jul 13, 2016
What I have been up to these last few months. First, I rented a space that I hope will encourage more production of books. I could call it a studio. And it has encourage more production of books, actually. I have limited time here (before and after other responsibilities) so rather than lounge around thinking, I do. Good fun.
Second, I thought about, designed, computerized, made, and showed a touristy book for tourists to places that might have some tourists. They didn’t think it was terrible and my pricing was spot on, according to them. This was good.
Third, I have been putting Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy on InDesign so I can print it out and make books. My original intent was to computerize it, make ebooks, sell them on Amazon and iBooks, & etc. And simultaneously make books, too. But then I realized that iBooks has some Very nice editions on sale. As does Amazon, of course. I might put my version up as well, to see if anything comes of all my work. If I do and if anyone purchases my version over, say, Penguin’s version, I’ll probably invest my income in Kiva.
Lastly, I started out to make a book about Canals. Like the ones that used to be on Mars according to Percival Lowell and Edgar Rice Burroughs. But I ended up writing and making a book (Yotsume toji binding, about B6 in size.) about… I’m not sure. Science. Time. The shift from Geocentric thought to Heliocentric thought. Peopled by Kepler, Brahe, Copernicus, Nicholas of Cusa (who?), and Virginia Galilei.