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Update #45: Books Are Here
The Pick Your Battle books arrived at my house today. They should arrive at your houses very soon. I am going to start sending them out today. Thank you, please let me know what you think by commenting here, on my facebook, or through twitter, and please keep watching this channel for news of my future adventures.
Update #44: Cover Design completed, Copy Edited Manuscript Returned
The talents of Glen Krish and MK Hobson have been put to use in the last few weeks and the Pick Your Battle book has a design and properly placed commas. The next step is to get the interior layout done and send it off to the printer. Then it's on its way to you.
Update #43: Book is Finished: New Title and New Estimated Delivery Date
Pick Your Battle: Your Guide to Urban Foraging, Hollywood Movies, Late Capitalism and the Communist Alternative (a Memoir)
I sent the book to the be looked over by the keen Glen Krish who volunteered to copyedit the book for me in two weeks time. Then it's off to the very talented and coordinated MK Hobson who will design the book in two weeks, and then the book will be printed. So, if I go with Gavin's recommended printer who can do jobs quickly, the book should be flying into your hands via the US Post Office by mid-May.
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bob banner on April 2, 2011
yea!!! good for you... I cant wait to read it.... good luck with everything and abound in glory and fortitude....
bob
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Update #42: Update on Printers (with assist from Gavin Grant)
Gavin Grant is a contributor to the Pick Your Battle project, an editor at Small Beer Books, and a fiction writer. He emailed the following response to my recent update:
If you can finish the book, edit it, get it copyedited and printed in 30 days, that would be awesome. I find printers (unless I'm using Bookmobile.com—nice price quote software on there once you are logged in) or a local copy shop for galleys, most printers are more like a month. I usually use Thomson-Shore for books as the price and quality are good—but speed isn't their thing.
So I checked out Bookmobile and the price quoted wasn't bad. My plan for now is to push ahead on all the stuff I can directly control, and see how long the stuff I can't control (like how long my printer takes) works out. If I run into serious snags I'll let you all know through this here Kickstarter updater dodad.
Thanks again.
Update #41: Update To Picking a Battle
I ran into a contributor to the Pick Your Battle book today at Powell's Books and he asked the obvious question. "When is the Pick Your Battle book going to come out?"
My answer was this: "Sometime in March." But here are some details on precisely what's left to be done.
I still have two sections of the book left to write. One section tells the story of my encounter with a blackberry bush on Reedway, and the other section will set down and move forward a plan for detournement or swedeing as a continual action that I hope will join up with or complement current struggles around Public workers, austerity measures, ecological crisis, and outright revolutions.
All together I'm about 3000 words away from finishing the book, and that means the writing is days away from being completed. After this work is done I'll be editing the book, sending the book to a professional copyeditor, sending the book to a designer, and then getting the book printed. I estimate that all of that together will take about a month.
Then, when the book is printed, I'll be sending copies to you. In the meantime you can read excerpts at my blog:
or listen to collaged excerpts on the diet soap podcast
Thanks to all of you for your support. I'll be updating to mark each step in this process as I go forward.
Solidarity,
Doug
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Douglas Lain is the author of dozens of short stories and two novels. His work has regularly appeared in nationally distributed literary magazines and journals such as Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and Amazing Stories since 1999, and his first book “Last Week’s Apocalypse” was a collection of these stories published by Night Shade Books. His first novel, entitled “Billy Moon: 1968,” tells the story of Christopher Robin Milne’s fictional involvement with the French general strike in May of 1968, and is due out from Tor Books in 2011. His second novel, entitled “the Brainwash Brand,” is currently under option at Tor.
Since 1991 Lain has been involved with various activist and liberatory projects. He is a member of the radical nonprofit Education Without Borders, a former participant in the Portland Peaceful Response Coalition that formed after the attacks of September 11th, 2001, and an organizer of protests against the Patriot Act and against the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. He has also been an organizer of events and fundraisers for literary and political organizations such as Books not Bombs and Veterans for Peace. His overtly political writings have been featured in ‘zines and journals such as Magnitizdat (a journal of illegal writing), the Portland Alliance, and Flytrap.
Lain is also the editor of the ‘zine “Diet Soap,” which Stephanie Holmes of the Xerography Debt described as “the equivalent of reading the well-written diary of the paranoid neurotic you have a raging crush on.” Lain is also the host of a weekly podcast with the same title as his ‘zine. On its 46th episode the Diet Soap podcast typically has well over a thousand listeners every week, and has featured conversations with Penelope Rosemont of the Chicago Surrealist group, the journalist David Lindorf, the novelist Geoff Nicholson, the anarchist philosopher Takis Fotopoulos, and many others. Douglas is also a frequent guest on a variety of other podcasts including the C-Realm, the Next Step, Frank Aragona’s Agroinnovations podcast, and others.
Lain’s metafictional and autobiographical short story “A Coffee Cup/Alien Invasion Story” was reprinted in Richard Horton’s Science Fiction Best of the Year anthology in 2006, and Lain was nominated for the Elliot Fintushel Short Story Award in 2003 and 2004, but lost to Elliot Fintushel both times. He has also been nominated or shortlisted for the Nebula, the Fountain Award, the Locus Award, and strangely enough the MTV Music Video award for best choreography.
Yeah Baby! Hats off, congratulations! Can't wait to read it and post some criticism/insights/humor.
Doug! Doug! I have no e-mail address for you! And I must tell you that Canada Post is about to strike, so if you send my book, it will not come!!
Alyx: I'm douglain at gmail. I'll send you a PDF ASAP.
Philip: I'm preparing envelopes as I type this...almost.