Ep. 227: A Fractured Template

Bookbinding

I printed out, punched holes in, sewed, and bound another version of This Page! This time things fit together better but I discovered why on the first one the textblock and covers were of offending sizes. The template I used to make the backcloth covers was too small. I noticed it when the second version experienced the same problem as the first one. 

The main question I have now is why was my A6-size template for book covers off by so much? Or, better, why did I use it twice (or more!) before finding out it was too small? Or, even better, did I make it wrong to begin with?

Fiction

I have worked a bit on two novels, Fear Itself and Dark Death. However, I depressed myself on the number of the as-of-yet incomplete and unfinished novels I have spinning in the air like so many plates on a talent show. Let me list the ones I can remember:

• Fear Itself - Book One of The Fear trilogy. Fear Zero, Book One, is available. Check below,
• Fear The Dead - Book Two of The Fear trilogy,
• Dark Death - Book One of the Vengeance trilogy,
• Botchan’s Bartender - Book One of the Japan Quintet (of which Books Two to Five are finished! Yeah!),
• Caraculiambro - a mystery/conspiracy stand-alone novel whose main character is a giant ala Andre the Giant but a private detective. The character’s name and some activities he’s involved in were snatched from Don Quixote. I like the characters and the plot. I really want to wish it someday. Again, maybe in this century, right? I have two books based somewhat, circling around, as it were, Don Quixote. This one and Giapan, Book Five of the Japan Quintet

Of course, I’ve been doing my best to avoid writing anything for NaNoWriMo. I haven’t even gone to its website to see what is going on. Lazy me, I suspect.

 

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Novels Available for Your Reading Pleasure! Plus, you help support my podcast.

 Fear Zero

A 10-year-old Matt McKenzie is thrown in prison for murdering his mother. Can he survive sadistic guards, violent inmates, loneliness, and fear? When he’s 16, he could be released. How will the six years of fear, pain, and violence change him? Will he be able to find a job or a place to live? The odds are against him.

This is the prelude to The Fear Trilogy, a dystopian future war novel which follows McKenzie from war to peace and back to war through power-hungry politicians, conspiracies, and intrigue.

 Available at  iBooks  • Kobo • Barnes & Noble  • Scribd

The Oregon Coast Murder Duet 

Two murders in the same town. Separated by 20 years. How are the suspects, witnesses, and victims related?

 Feeding Vicki’s Corpse

This first murder victim is a PhD student who had damaging information about a local business development. Did the developer have him killed? The developer’s teenage daughter was raped. Did the PhD student rape her? Was that why he was killed? A retired and emotionally damaged Boston detective is asked to dig into the crimes. And he comes up with surprising results.

Available at: iBooks  •  Kobo   • Barnes & Noble  ª  Scribd 

The City of Cocks

The second murder victim was the son of a local businessman. With lots of friends in high places. They want the murder solved and quickly. Murders are bad for the tourist business and summer is approaching. A suspect is quickly arrested. He must rely on his wife, a drunken poet who sees ghosts, and a bookish lawyer to protect him.

 

Available at:  iBooks  •  Kobo  •  Barnes & Noble •   Scribd