Peripheral writing biz tasks. Plus: collage book-boxes
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
The Spine
The back.
And the smaller book:
The cover
Spine
inside cover
Inside
Back cover
Geary’s:
Front of the big book
Back
inside cover
inside
Here’s his second:
cover
back
inside cover
inside
And Ann’s:
Cover of Ann’s big book.
and the back.
inside
Her smaller book:
cover
inside cover
And finally: The cake (courtesy of Geary), and party favors (from me).
(PS: Always read the hovertext. )
August 1st, 2013 at 8:57 am
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.
August 1st, 2013 at 11:16 am
Huimang –
You’re right! I just went over there to check. My mother would have loved these — she used to collect owls.
Here’s the direct link to that post: http://dduane.tumblr.com/post/57058565817/phnuuby-beastlyart-ahhh-my-mom-has-the-grey#.Ufp6HazSh18
August 30th, 2013 at 8:53 am
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.
August 30th, 2013 at 10:10 am
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.