Thursday, December 10, 2009
The bad news: there’s going to be a delay on Amazon distribution for Crescat Graffiti. Apparently the cover text is too close to the edge (fair enough, there’s been a few copies where the final “o” is a tiny bit cut off).
As a rule, revising a book once you’ve purchased the extended distribution pack comes [...]
Monday, November 30, 2009
I dropped by the Seminary Co-op this morning, and indeed, you can now find “Crescat Graffiti” there on the shelves. Well, less “shelves” and more “the counter to the right of the right-hand cash register” (here’s a close-up).
At the moment, Hyde Park’s indie bookstores are the only place to get the book, since my personal [...]
Sunday, November 29, 2009
If you want to preview “Crescat Graffiti”, you can now check it out on Google Books. And if you want a copy and are in the Chicago area, you can now support local bookstores by dropping by Seminary Co-op, 57th St. Books or the Hyde Park Powell’s. All bookstore copies are signed.
At least at the [...]
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Towards the beginning of winter quarter 2008, Alexa and her friends had a pretty prominent place in the photos I was taking on the A-level. Alexa made some pretty great charts, two of which found their way into the book (second photo on pages 42 and 103, respectively.)
When Alexa’s current roommate, Loranne, showed her the [...]
Sunday, November 15, 2009
As if it wasn’t cluttered enough with luggage and the piles of books that are always there, my living room is now covered with the 5 boxes from Lulu containing 10 copies of Crescat Graffiti each. If you’d like a signed copy (that comes with a button!), here’s the book order page (courtesy of a [...]
Sunday, November 15, 2009
A 20-lb box containing 50 copies of Crescat Graffiti is waiting for me back in Chicago. Tomorrow I’ll have have signed sale in person and via PayPal ($12 + shipping and envelope costs, as low as $3).
In the meantime, though, a couple firsts. The first copy of the book– the final proof, as poorly modeled [...]
Saturday, October 31, 2009
The proof copy of Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur: Confessions of the University of Chicago came in the mail yesterday. On the whole, I’m really pleased with it. There’s a few changes that I need to make in the text (spelling “acknowledgments” consistently, fixing page references that changed after I wrote the text, adding a few [...]
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