Peripheral writing biz tasks. Plus: collage book-boxes

Rosemary

I’ve been wrapped up in tons of writerly tasks that, while not actually generating prose, support and enable the future generation of prose.  Ate up my entire weekend plus day off. But necessary.

About which, more Real Soon Now.  But I finally found a few moments in which to blog!

People have asked for more on the collaged book-boxes Ann and Geary and I made at this year’s post-Readercon gathering. Alas: nearly all the photos came out horribly blurry! I think I was wearing my wrong glasses at the time.

(Annoyingly, I now have three sets: 225’s that I use to read print, 150’s that I use to read computer screens, and a graduated focus pair that are mostly plano with a 225 reading area — which I hate, because the area is about the size of one word on a printed page, requiring me to read by moving my head as if I were watching a ping-pong match.)

I’ve pulled out the least blurry of the photos.   (Hey, Ann & Geary: if you want, take some new pictures of your own books, and email them — I’ll replace these with your better ones.)

We each made two book-boxes this time: one large and one small.

This was mine:

Cover of my big book

cover of my big book

 

The Spine...

The Spine

 

The back...

The back.

 

 

...inside...

And the smaller book:

The cover...

The cover

Spine

Spine

 

Inside cover.

inside cover

 

Inside

Inside

Back cover

Back cover

Geary’s:

 

Front

Front of the big book

spine

 

Back

Back

inside cover

inside cover

inside...

inside

Here’s his second:

cover

cover

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back

back

 

inside cover

inside cover

inside

inside

And Ann’s:

Cover of Ann's big book

Cover of Ann’s big book.

 

and the back

and the back.

inside

inside

inside

Her smaller book:

cover

cover

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inside cover

inside cover

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And finally: The cake (courtesy of Geary), and party favors (from me).

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(PS: Always read the hovertext. )


4 Responses to “Peripheral writing biz tasks. Plus: collage book-boxes”

  • Huimang Says:

    Lovely. I hope you don’t mind a comment on an almost unrelated topic (well, artwork, anyway), but I saw this picture of a certain kind of tea mugs and thought immediately “Oh, those are something Ona in Donner might have made!” Not cats and mice, but sort of similar. You can see the picture in question at dduane.tumblr.com, Diane Duane’s place, possibly with some scrolling down.
    I’m sorry again for the unrelated invasion, and wish you all the best.

  • Sabine Says:

    I’m finally catching up with all the hovertext I’ve missed. The ones on this page resolve into a beautiful poem! (Plus, I like “equatins” better than “equations” on Geary’s “complete freedom” cover, but it might be a typo.

    • Rosemary Says:

      Sabine –

      That’s what I was going for! You have uncovered the secret poems.

      Yeah, “equatins” is a typo. But I’m going to leave it, to encourage creative exploration of ambiguity on the reader’s part.