Preorder the sold out first collection, Apple of my Eye in a new, 2024 Expanded full colour edition with added artwork, writing, and ephemera. Coming mid-2024 for local hand delivery, Canada Post/USPS/Royal Mail, or digital edition for the old world adverse.
This collection of essays prose and poetry limited to 33 handmade keepsake box editions included my selected unpublished writing from 2009 through 2019, I designed all the book covers, created art pieces that were original paper collages from lifelong keepsakes, photos and ephemera assembled as part of the writing process, did felt tip sketches & illustrated the table of contents by hand. The titles were cryptic and long thought out, referring back to song cues or secrets the stories might want to hide. Included in the collages were original art, notes and letters from childhood, teenagerhood, and found items. A lifelong collage-maker, the act of cutting out paper (along with ripping it) was probably my first and still my most enduring catharsis. As I digitally scanned the large pieces to bring them to book size, I sometimes added some digital elements, mostly for art I had found for the book but not used elsewhere, particularly Kittyzilla, who invades a dollhouse in a motif I wanted to use for the front cover (one of many cover tries...) but deferring to the mobile age, I went simpler. Some of the embarrassing lot of cover tries and title changes (all part of my process) shared here and now, as I accept my past self in all her messy organic evolution.
The 2024 Expanded Edition will be just as special and have goodies to offer. My dream then was to make the book the dimensions of a magazine, graphic novel or notebook. Large. I wanted the artwork to be displayed large, in full colour, and be seen as well as read or skimmed. I was ultimately limited by the restrictions of Amazon's formatting and costing, as well as the need to use Amazon for distribution and web presence. For the 2024 edition I will have the books made special, they will be personalized and sent by me to each person who wants one. I will create an Amazon-friendly global-shipping rate friendly version for the same reasons but it will be less special. I will not create a Kindle version for the ongoing AI concerns for authors, but I will create a digital version personally for those who want it, as a supplement to the book itself.
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