Jan. 22nd, 2009

HOKAY! I think it's finally ready. So here's a little propaganda post you can link to if you want. Please feel free to pimp the book anywhere you like. Really. Feel free.

The Alum's Guide To Getting Through University was an essay I created to organize my thoughts on my waning career as a graduate student and provide advice to a couple of people who were soon to be shipping off for their freshman year. In the past few years I've been proud that people have returned to comment on its usefulness; I like to be useful. I submitted it to a few educational-guidebook companies but got no bites (not surprising) so I decided to self-publish it.

The end result is a slick, updated new guide entitled "Other People Can Smell You," which I am offering on Lulu.com not only as a hardcopy pocket-sized handbook but also as a free download. You can access the free downloadable version here, at my storefront, or take a look through it and purchase the hardcopy (which is actually a softcopy considering it's a pocket paperback) at the sales page.

The image you see on the right is a preview print I ordered; I've since tweaked a few things on the cover and in the interior, but the size is the same. As you can see it is a very thin book, but it is "perfect" bound (with a glue binding) and not stapled or stitched. It seems pretty durable. (The one dollar bill, obvs., is for scale -- it was that or a 7-up can.)

In the interests of full disclosure, with media mail postage a single copy of the book will run you $11 even. Of that, I make fifty five cents. Buy a book! I plan to blow my royalties on Snickers bars and shiny trinkets.
My Crazy Irish Super has installed my new window! It sounds like the beginning of a folk song, but it's more of a newsflash. Now, granted, he had said he'd do it two weeks ago, but I am inclined to be pleasant since I have a window that doesn't leak cold air.

There should be more to this post, but that's really all I can think of. I've been elbows deep in two separate stories most of the day, and then work picked up like gangbusters in the afternoon.

(Yep, two stories, and neither of them fanfic; I've been oscillating between Jack&Ellis, which is hard hard work, and a Super Sekrit Project that is slightly less hard work but very irregular. More on this as events transpire. :D)

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