Ep. 211: Cutting myself for an A5 graphic paper notebook

I managed to cut myself again. Doing exactly the same thing as the last time I cut myself: a piece of bookboard in my left hand, a knife in my right and trying to cut the bookboard’s thickness. Knife slips. Blood ensues. Fortunately this time not so much blood. I guess I failed to cut deep enough to extract it. 

What was I making when the injury occurred? An A5-sized graphic-paper blank notebook with 100 pages, a raised front cover, a closing strap, and a bookmark. The closing strap, book cloth, and bookmark are, as you can see in the photo, all red. The endpapers are green, however. Next time, they too shall be red.

Fiction

I have written on Three different novels. The first is the first book in my action-oriented conspiracy trilogy: Fear. I added two chapters, introduced a new character, and set up the conspiracy. The second is Giapan. Yes, again. I finished one chapter, started another and continued a debate between the main characters.

The third was a novel I started and talked about about two plus (?) years ago: Stealing November. It’s original title was Eating November but I changed it Heart of November — an homage to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (plus Eating November made no sense) but I changed it to Stealing November because it takes place in November plus it is a huge adventure for the main character who steals the month from when he is ‘supposed’ to be in school.

Stealing November takes place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The main characters are an American high school student who joins forces with a Congolese underwear salesman to rescue an Australian woman from sex slavery after a French drug dealer/smuggler sells her to a sex ring. I guess you could call it an adventure novel. 

 

 Here is a finished book for your reading pleasure from Apple Books.

 The Venetian Slime Woman

A woman born from the slime of a Venetian canal is sought after by the CIA or is it Homeland Security? She escapes with the help of an EPA water specialist.

Buying this book will help defray some of the costs of making this blog, podcast, and the actual making of the book itself. Plus, I hope you will enjoy it.  

Don’t forget to check out some videos I made. Enjoyable and short (some less than five minutes.)

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