Random ramblings over the metaphoric edge
Books, articles, novels, screenwriting and anything in that general genre
This is the current draft for the cover of the new edition of my 1989 book The Dowser’s Workbook (also known as Discover Dowsing). The aim is that it’ll come out, together with Pendulum Dowsing, as the first in my …
This is the current draft for the cover of the new edition of my 1989 book Elements of Pendulum Dowsing, to go out as the first in my new ‘Tetradian Alternate Realities’ series. Editing and layout and the like are …
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This is the cover for the first in my new ‘Tetradian Enterprise Architecture’ series, which went off to proof-press a couple of days ago. Aim was to have it ready in time for the TOGAF Glasgow conference on enterprise-architecture – …
Graeme Talboys at Grey House In The Woods tells me that his new ’30th Anniversary Edition’ of Needles of Stone has just gone off to press. The new edition has two new chapters: Looking back – a chapter-by-chapter review of …
Realised to my horror that it’s been around three weeks since my last posting, when I’d aimed to have something new every few days… oops… Excuse is that I’ve been busy, getting my head around all the stuff I need …
Since I’m setting up a print-on-demand publishing operation for the enterprise-architecture books anyway, it seems to make sense to bring some of my other former titles out of retirement, in particular: Pendulum Dowsing (aka ‘Elements of Pendulum Dowsing) – originally …
I’ve been doing a bit of back-and-forth with editor Annelies vdV for the very final page-proof tweaks to my article (among 32 others) in the upcoming itSMF / Van Haren IT Service Management Global Best Practices Part 1 (2008) . …
Been kind of hiding again, I guess: partly yet another oh-no-not-again cold – something to do with this house, I think, or just the fact of joyous English weather? – and partly because I’m once again trying to hold together …
Now completed the first drafts of both the two new chapters for the new edition of Needles of Stone, and selected the cover-art – a painting of Callanish by archaeological-illustrator / artist Liz Poraj-Wilczynska. More later on this an other …
Okay, that one’s done. 🙂 I ‘finished’ my NaNoWriMo ‘novel’ about three days ago, by the rather too simple expedient of ‘novelising’ about half of the previous Yabbies filmscript. Cheating, I know, but I needed a relatively-complete set of material …