Incendiary Lit

I, for some reason, thought that the “Page” function of wordpress was a magical place where posts could extend as long as they wanted and didn’t auto-delete the end of the post as you added more. Thus I’ve misplaced over a year’s worth of daily writing exercises on the world-wide-web of yesterday. I know there’re things like webarchive’s “way back machine” (which only applies to sites pre-2006) but have as of yet not been able to figure out how to retrieve those long-deleted exercises. Ho-hum. Add another tally to the “I’m retarded” list.

Bright news, however, is that I’m working on a book of Firestarters. I can’t say anything like “Its being published by ____” because at the moment, the publisher is likely to be Incendiary Lit Press with its first perfect bound book. That doesn’t mean that once it’s together I won’t spend $100 in postage and paper sending out queries, but it’s in the works, and if it’s not done yet, anyone who emails me (in order to avoid too much more spam, it’s simply the site name at gmail.com) in May will get a free ILP version of the Firestarter Book when its finally finished. I’m really hopeful though. Making good progress.

Here’s a lecture about DIY perfect binding. This is great for class projects like workshop anthologies, theses (doesn’t it seem like the plural of thesis should be thesi? I mean, yeah, the i isn’t a u, but still… theses? Sounds like a Deliverance hillbilly motioning to the captive with a dull, questioning look on his face “We gunn’ get ta taste theses?”– eek!) literary journals, or even just those who want to organize their work for friends and family. The process only involves some small boards, clamps, glue, a paint brush and some waxed paper. Definitely not a commercial process, but definitely passable for small projects. The lecturer is informative and clearly knows a thing or two about the physical crafting of books.