In other words: ugh.
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Ridiculously enough, Tinysides 11-15 are done. I'm going to hold off on releasing them awhile. I'm afraid I'm saturating the market for wee little books, and exhausting my customer base's demand. A once-a-month program might be better.
I've started the cover designs for 16-20. Funnily enough, 11-15 are all by men, and the covers are mostly very feminine -- lots of flowers and soft colors. 16-20 are all by women, and thus far my cover designs are full of bold colors and suits of armor.
Seven poems into "Postcards from Planet Death" and three for another genre series, "A Captivity Narrative." I make my own self laugh, at least.
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I think I will try some more five-line "genre" poems after this. I will probably pick up "Travels with the Sea Monster," although there really isn't a genre of fiction/art about travelling with sea monsters, unlike, say, space adventure.
Many BookThug titles arrived yesterday, and I appreciate their clean and simple design. Also I got a stuffed viking from elsewhere in Canada. He has a tiny rucksack for pillaging with.
I was thinking I would pull out my tomato plants this weekend, as they produce only infrequently, and then only for the delight of the squirrels, but one of them is trying to put out a last, solo tomato, far up and along on a slender stalk where it stands some chance of not being devoured by rodents. I will monitor its progress.
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I will post more about dates and such as they approach.
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Spanish train stations used to sell these tiny books, about two-and-a-half inches square, that came at 100 pesetas a pop -- about a dollar or so. They were all very beautifully designed, and I picked up a few on a trip from Valencia to Sagunto, where I also got to listen to a man speaking Russian to his child who answered back in Catalan.
I wish we had something like these books (I'm a fan of the tiny as always). We have the Dover Thrift editions, but they're not really pocket-sized and not very pretty. I think I'm going to hunt down some of my "Alianza Cien" books -- which included a collection of Galeano's odd fragments, and scan them, so you can take a peek. They were a good example of how something beautiful can induce you to enjoy something you otherwise wouldn't have picked up.
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