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Another Book In Paradise
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Location: Blogs Pugilist's Spew |
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| Posted by: Pugilist |
7/26/2011 |
I am finishing up, albeit a little late, my third book of the year, The Art of Stickwork. This book will be an introduction into the style and techniques I have developed since 1977 using the bo or quarterstaff. It was an outgrowth of the classes I have taught and the request from students for a manual of sorts and after several years of handing out what was a pamphlet, I decided it was time to expand the concept and make the book into an actual study guide. I should have had it finished in June of 2011, obviously that did not happen and I hope to put the finishing touches on it over the next few days and get a proof copy out and available in time for the class I am teaching in a few weeks time.
I plead laziness on this. I could say that I got stuck at one point in May, and I did, I could say that putting out The Art of the Compliment and The Map Story and Other Tales earlier in the year took a lot of effort and energy, and it did, and I could say that I had a lot of other things going on in my life that made it difficult to find the motivation to work on this, and that is true as well, but the basic fact is that I was lazy and did not keep to my schedule and now I am rushing through the process of getting the book ready which, inevitably, means that there will be embarrassing proofing and editing errors for which I will have to apologize in edition two.
And there is more bad news, for me. My fourth book of poetry, Suck Free Poetry Volume 4: Utopia, With Calories, is also delayed. I had planned to finish it up parallel to The Art of Stickwork but I am stuck with about 20% writing left on it and almost no editing or proofing complete so this will slip to the fall of 2011.
Still, that will be four books published in 2011, so that's not horrible and for 2012 i have three planned:
The Art of Contemplation
An update to The Art of the Compliment
Suck Free Poetry Volume 5:
Though the latter may slip to 2013, if the world has not ended. I will also be collecting stories for my next volume of short stories and I have, in mind, a work of parody and satire on a certain series, details to follow.
If you want to review all of my publications, check out my author page on Amazon.com. You can leave me a note, tell me I am a fool, or indulge yourself and buy copies of everything I have written as presents for your best friends, or, if you hate what I write, for your worst enemies.
Really, as long as you buy the books I don't care if you read them, burn them, or sue them to line the crate of your pet.
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