Sorry for my prolonged absence. Actually I've been working like a banshee (though why banshees should be considered hard workers, except at screaming, is entirely beyond me). I have a number of projects in the seeding stage, and I should have more concrete news to post about them in the mid-term future.
Meanwhile, allow me to commend to you a magnificent site called BOOKCROSSING. I stumbled on it recently while ... well, I don't remember how I stumbled on it. But bookcrossing is basically a kind of pay-it-forward karmic bookswap club. It provides an online registry of "travelling books" that people have tagged and released into the wild to find new readers. If you find a travelling book lying around your local coffeeshop or laundromat, you are supposed to read it, make a journal entry at the website, and release it back into the wild to find its next reader. A number of books have travelled the world so far, showing up in truly amazing places.
I find the idea fetchingly kooky. And though I'm too much of a book miser to give away books under normal circumstances, I am using it to help find new readers for some of my truly favorite books and writers. So far I've released one science fiction book: TIL HUMAN VOICES WAKE US by Mark Budz. Wonderful book, wonderful writer. I am hoping that the copy I tagged and released yesterday wins him new readers (and new sales too ... ahhhhem ... please note the amazon link above).
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