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Ep. 337: A Warning & Mistakes
Bookbinding
I cased in The Lonely Izakaya Down a Quiet Street novella. It’s B6 (which is B5 folded in half), nine signatures, and 125 pages. In making this book I discovered a warning I must pass on to my listeners/readers.
Warning: Keep your fingertips away from sharp objects like exacto knives. Exacto knives are frequently used in bookbinding and, from experience, I realize they cut not only paper, but also human flesh. Fortunately, I did not video-tape the incident.
I made a rookie mistake, too. I measured the width of the book cover using the text block but forgot to reduce the width of the book cover by the space of the hinge. This results in the book fore-edge being TOO big.
I used washi probably made in Kanazawa for the book cover. It looks nice but is thin. I needed to be careful not to tear it when folding it or using a bone folder.
Fiction
I tallied up the number of unfinished novels I have padding around my house in their pajamas and tattered bathrobes. To be considered works-in-progress they had to have more than 80 pages; I have many ‘novels’ that have only one or two pages.
The total: four. One is from ten years ago. Is it a work-in-progress or forgotten or abandoned? This is Caraculiambro, of course. The giant of a detective investigating a murder, a death (not related to the murder), and land fraud.
The others include an historical fiction about a woman who lives about 200 years without aging past 40 (The Posthumous Autobiography of the Widow Agnes Grout); a dystopian future about a man who survives not only war but also the politics of peace and is part four of a trilogy (The Sound of Fear); a happy novel about a dancer who first shows up in Molly Bright but takes center stage with his own novel that takes place in Italy, the Dominican Republic, and Japan but might end in India (Merengue).
Which one do you think I started re-working on in order to get it off my Work-in-Progress pile? That’s right! I started a new novel about a Russian scavenger who collects, gathers, ‘finds’ what he can, sells it for what he can get, and ends up in a strange land (Japan) by mistake. Tentative title: The Russian.
Talkies
I uploaded an eight-minute video of me casing in The Lonely Izakaya Down a Quiet Street for your viewing pleasure. Search for or click here: TDGB 82 Warning and Mistakes.
Books
The Lonely Izakaya Down a Quiet Street is available on Apple Books.
Former Japanese teacher Shimeki Nagi and one of his former high school students, electrical engineer Okabe Rin bump into each other throughout the year on national holidays and random days. They meet, talk about romance, love and life. They learn about each other, and discover an izakaya owner who writes a manga called The Lonely Izakaya Down a Quiet Street.
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I cased in The Lonely Izakaya Down a Quiet Street novella. It’s B6 (which is B5 folded in half), nine signatures, and 125 pages. In making this book I discovered a warning I must pass on to my listeners/readers.
Warning: Keep your fingertips away from sharp objects like exacto knives. Exacto knives are frequently used in bookbinding and, from experience, I realize they cut not only paper, but also human flesh. Fortunately, I did not video-tape the incident.
I made a rookie mistake, too. I measured the width of the book cover using the text block but forgot to reduce the width of the book cover by the space of the hinge. This results in the book fore-edge being TOO big.
I used washi probably made in Kanazawa for the book cover. It looks nice but is thin. I needed to be careful not to tear it when folding it or using a bone folder.
Fiction
I tallied up the number of unfinished novels I have padding around my house in their pajamas and tattered bathrobes. To be considered works-in-progress they had to have more than 80 pages; I have many ‘novels’ that have only one or two pages.
The total: four. One is from ten years ago. Is it a work-in-progress or forgotten or abandoned? This is Caraculiambro, of course. The giant of a detective investigating a murder, a death (not related to the murder), and land fraud.
The others include an historical fiction about a woman who lives about 200 years without aging past 40 (The Posthumous Autobiography of the Widow Agnes Grout); a dystopian future about a man who survives not only war but also the politics of peace and is part four of a trilogy (The Sound of Fear); a happy novel about a dancer who first shows up in Molly Bright but takes center stage with his own novel that takes place in Italy, the Dominican Republic, and Japan but might end in India (Merengue).
Which one do you think I started re-working on in order to get it off my Work-in-Progress pile? That’s right! I started a new novel about a Russian scavenger who collects, gathers, ‘finds’ what he can, sells it for what he can get, and ends up in a strange land (Japan) by mistake. Tentative title: The Russian.
Talkies
I uploaded an eight-minute video of me casing in The Lonely Izakaya Down a Quiet Street for your viewing pleasure. Search for or click here: TDGB 82 Warning and Mistakes.
Books
The Lonely Izakaya Down a Quiet Street is available on Apple Books.
Former Japanese teacher Shimeki Nagi and one of his former high school students, electrical engineer Okabe Rin bump into each other throughout the year on national holidays and random days. They meet, talk about romance, love and life. They learn about each other, and discover an izakaya owner who writes a manga called The Lonely Izakaya Down a Quiet Street.