{"id":50,"date":"2003-08-07T08:06:35","date_gmt":"2003-08-07T12:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=50"},"modified":"2005-12-04T08:34:17","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T13:34:17","slug":"see-you-in-the-funnies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/see-you-in-the-funnies","title":{"rendered":"See You in the Funnies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry I haven’t written. Been busy with the magazine<\/a>, the book<\/a>, housekeeping, and the barest vestiges of a social life.<\/p>\n

Things are mostly squared away with my printer<\/a>. My rep is trying to get me 5,000 color postcards of the cover as a make-good for messing up on the cost of dust-jackets. I’m a little worried, insofar as I haven’t seen proofs of the book and the jacket yet, but he assured me I’d get them today via FedEx<\/a>. Keep your fingers crossed.<\/p>\n

Got interviewed by the Bergen Record<\/em><\/a> last night for a short piece in the Sunday paper. My first author, Vince Czyz<\/a>, recently returned from his former life in Istanbul, and has helped out like gangbusters on the publicity for this book (and Voyant in general). I’ve never been great about publicizing things, which is my biggest flaw as a publisher. I hope.<\/p>\n

During my several trips to NYC last weekend, I stopped in on several bookstores (St. Mark’s<\/a>, Shakespeare & Co., Coliseum<\/a> and Gotham Book Mart<\/a>), all of which seemed impressed by the flyer for Immensity. Many thanks to cover designer Sang Lee<\/a> for coming up with an image that can do a lot of my publicizing for me. Speaking of which, I’ll be labeling, stuffing, stamping and sealing 400 or so envelopes tonight to send off to independent bookstores throughout the country.<\/p>\n

Anyway, columnist Jim Beckerman conducted a 15-minute interview for the paper, which gets pretty good circulation in the NJ\/NY area. I prefer the Newark Star Ledger<\/em>‘s sports section<\/a> over the Record<\/em>‘s, but hey. When the column comes out, I’ll post a link. No photos of your humble, non-publicizing publisher, fortunately.<\/p>\n

I spent last Sunday in the company of my web designer, John Castro<\/a>, and we spent nearly eight hours upgrading the Voyant site [now defunct]<\/em>. <\/p>\n

John and I talked extensively that evening, at the Karma Kafe<\/a> in Hoboken, which I mistakenly assumed was actually a cafe. Turned out to be a little south Asian restaurant. We had coffee anyway, and discussed some of the more subtly destructive psychological problems I’ve been having since 9.11.<\/p>\n

Oh, also: a few days ago, I discovered the second greatest invention in man’s history, following the iPod<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Sorry I haven’t written. Been busy with the magazine, the book, housekeeping, and the barest vestiges of a social life. Things are mostly squared away with my printer. My rep is trying to get me 5,000 color postcards of the cover as a make-good for messing up on the cost of dust-jackets. I’m a little … <\/p>\n

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