The number of links this week may set a TWIP record, but holy cow was there good stuff out in the publishophere this past week. Let’s get to it!
But first, before we get to the links, today may be your last chance to see the award winning (not really) circa-1999 design of this blog, featuring its square, awkwardly fonted logo and its “I slapped this thing together in a weekend” design ethos. Barring technical catastrophe the blog will be transitioning over the weekend to a fresh new look courtesy of the wildly talented web designer Sean Slinsky. Pardon our dust as we get things running.
And there may just be a few more surprises in store come Monday.
Now for real let’s get to it:
First up, in the wake of the controversy about their new self-publishing/vanity arm, Harlequin announced that the new outfit will be called DellArte Press. Which is, um, an interesting name for, um… moving on!
There have been some anonymous murmurings in the comments section that I have been too focused and too pro-e-books lately, to which I would reply: 1) umseriously this e-book thing is kind of a big deal and 2) let me repeat I am not and would never advocating getting rid of print books and/or bookstores. To that end, Amazon recently released a list of the Best Book Covers of 2009, which feature some awesome can’t-be-replaced-by-e-reader design. (via The Millions)
And further to that point, Bloomsbury publisher/editorial director Peter Ginna, who recently launched the must-read blog Dr. Syntax, posted an ode to the print publisher’s secret weapon: the book designer.
But the e-book world marches on. My client Jennifer Hubbard thinks about what the e-book future might look like, and Mike Shatzkin has a fantastic three point publisher plan for fighting piracy. My favorite is the first one, which entails getting proactive about spreading fake book files on file-sharing sites. Fight dirty, publishers!
And lots of people have been wondering what will happen in an era where getting published is as easy as uploading a file to a website. GalleyCat asks: do we really need three million books? (To which those three million authors answer: yes for my book, no for the others!). And meanwhile, via How Publishing Really Works comes an article on how self-publishing doesn’t (usually) work.
And finally in e-book news, J.A. Konrath has eleven bold e-book predictions for 2010, including e-readers for less than $99 and the rise of estributors.
Just kidding, that wasn’t the last e-book link. Alan Kaufman wrote an article comparing the closing of bookstores and the rise of e-books to… the Krystallnacht of Nazi Germany. No, really. He writes, “The book is fast becoming the despised Jew of our culture.” Also: the article is available on the Internet. Horrors! (via HTMLGIANT)
Upstart Crow announced the details of the second annual auction for author Bridget Zinn, who has had quite a tumultuous year getting married and getting a book deal while also fighting cancer. Details about the auction, which includes signed books, manuscript critiques and more, here.
The Rejectionist went and got all famous on us, writing an article for The Stranger about what one agent assistant’s inbox looks like.
Cormac McCarthy’s old Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter is being auctioned off today, and you people had better bring the cash because I’m going to outbid all y’all and in fact…. um…. oh. It’s expected to go for between $15,000 and $20,000. Nevermind! Maybe I can bid for a bottle of white-out instead. UPDATE: the typewriter sold for $254,500 (via @JBD1). Rumors that this was purchased for me as a Christmas present: unconfirmed. Also the rumors were started by me.
Pimp My Novel has a fantastic two part post on the factors that go into how many copies of an author’s book an “account” will order. Pimpin’ a novel ain’t easy indeed.
In Curtis Brown literary agent interview news, I was recently interviewed by The Writer’s [Inner] Journey, and my colleague Ginger Clark was interviewed by Editor Unleashed.
Rachelle Gardner posted a plea for authors to stop complaining about agent response times, and author Lauren Barnholdt chimed in that “Agents not responding to your email is not the reason you are not getting published.” Meanwhile, INTERN marveled at the mere fact that with book publishing you can actually send things to agents and editors and have them read for free. Unlike, say, patent applications.
And in somewhat related news, Good.is had an article about a study suggesting that happy writers don’t generally make good writers. Get cranky, people! (via The Book Bench)
Almost finally, Moonrat posted a very helpful list of things authors should expect from their agents, and Kate Schafer Testerman added some things to the list as well.
And finally finally, via the Book Cover Archive blog comes a fantastic video from the New Zealand book council. A journey through a book:
P.S. This is the future:
Have a great weekend!
Nathan Bransford says
nick-
I wouldn't correlate a loss of bookstores with a loss of books. Every person in America now has ready access to more books than anyone in human history. That constitutes the death of books? There's no evidence that people are reading less.
I really appreciate good bookstores and am rooting for them as much as anyone, but I also didn't have bookstore growing up. I grew up in the country. The nearest bookstore was a crappy B. Dalton 30 minutes away and the nearest real bookstore was over an hour away, and I was lucky to get there a couple times a year. Our library was pretty tiny. I would have KILLED for a Kindle or for Amazon growing up. I probably would have bankrupted my parents.
Now people in rural areas have access to an infinite number of books, just a few clicks away. That's progress.
Change is disruptive, but it ain't always bad.
maybegenius says
Ha, it's funny that you mentioned book designers being the secret weapon of publishers, because I've just recently starting wondering what's going to happen when the creative heads get seriously involved with e-readers. Imagine the possibilities…
Marjorie says
This week in publishing: I won the Beat Poetry Contest! To read my winning poem, "WHAT WAY TO GO TODAY," go to:
http://www.thedailybeatblog.blogspot.com
Anonymous says
Alan Kaufman is an acclaimed writer whose fiction has been described as “extraordinary”. His article took a great deal of poetic license and used quite a bit of hyperbole. But, at its core, it was about much more than electronic vs. paper books or physical bookstores vs. electronic publication. He has his own Internet blog, is a member of numerous online sites, has been interviewed online and participated in online videos. In his article, he talks about many things, including the Google lawsuit. The following excerpt demonstrates the primary message at the heart of his article:
“But the truth is, Nourrey, like Bertelsmann, like most American book publishers, are linked to twenty first century, late-stage hypercapitalist imperatives predicated entirely upon ceaseless expansion, the inherent belief in Darwinian obsolescence and succession as the lifeblood of successful economics and societal advance.
“Thus, publishers, like the technologists who slit their throats, are producers not of books but money, while books have become simply another vehicle, along with the Washing Machine and the iPod, for generating capital.”
Nathan Bransford says
anon-
Alan would have a hard time convincing me that the publishing industry has ever, at any point in history, been primarily driven by anything other than capitalism. And yet – look at all of the great books that have come out of that system.
Equating e-books with the Holocaust is so outlandish it took me a while to figure out whether the article was satire.
Things change. Artists persevere. Life goes on.
Anonymous says
Alan Kaufman wasn’t talking about capitalism. He was talking about the effects of unregulated capitalism. Huge difference. He was over the top in his hyperbole, but he makes some good points. He’s an internationally acclaimed poet who writes about the Jewish experience and whose writing has been compared to that of Walt Whitman. He took poetic license in his article, but he’s a brilliant guy. No doubt he himself will continue to persevere as a writer. I don’t think he’s complaining about his own personal level of success.
Nathan Bransford says
anon-
But again, I don't see evidence that unregulated capitalism is destroying publishing. There are some multinationals, lots of healthy independents, and lots of upstarts. And to suggest that Google and/or Amazon are verging on anything approaching a monopoly is a serious misreading of the situation.
I don't really think there's a salient point underneath the (rather offensive) hyperbole.
Nathan Bransford says
I don't question that he's a brilliant guy though. Doesn't make him right in this case.
kalincasey says
Cool video from NZ! I just got back from three-week road trip there and now have to catch up on the blog. Nathan, since I wasn't here for Thanksgiving, I have to say that I am thankful for you and your generosity year-round.
Anonymous says
I agree that Alan Kaufman is using rather offensive hyperbole. But it may come from his family's past experience. He’s the son of Holocaust survivors. He used Bertelsmann as an example. Bertelsmann, by its own admission, has lied about its Nazi past: BBC article published in 2002. I would recommend reading the entire BBC article, even though the admissions are rather sickening. Bertelsmann made huge profits writing anti-Semitic books and using Jewish slave labor during Hitler’s reign. The head of the company back then made donations to the SS, Hitler’s special forces and concentration camp guards. IMHO, that’s much more offensive than anything Kaufman has done by writing his article.
Google and Amazon aren’t true monopolies, but Bertelsmann is. I think Kaufman’s article reflects our current zeitgeist in which many people are suffering while others rake in huge profits. Today, 1 in 4 (25%) of children within the United States don’t have enough food to eat. Kaufman impresses me as someone sensitive to injustice.
Anonymous says
Anon @ 12:40 AM –
Alan Kaufman explains his reasoning more clearly in another article – – Google Books And Kindles: A Concentration Camp Of Ideas.
Cam Snow says
In you summary of pertinent publishing news you forgot to mention that I received my 10th rejection letter! Oh, wait, that's not news.
https://angryadjective.blogspot.com
GhostFolk.com says
What's so great is that there's going to be a zillion indi's soon servicing a zillion niches and we're all going to have a better literary experience!
Gordon, I think it is your time to do this, being a publisher again. Will you do physical books?
Violet Baudelaire says
Nathan, your point about rural book stores is shamefully something I'd never considered. which is worse considering I live in the back of beyond myself. I mean I'd still like it better if people just ordered physical copies from amazon or where ever but I think maybe, possibly e-books are not a sign of the apocalypse…
wendy says
I've heard that before about artists suffering to produce great art. Well, it worked for Van Gogh. I don't mean to be facetious about him. I adore his art, and his tragic, shining life makes me teary. If his life had been much easier than it was, and if he had the distractions of a family, I think the quality and quantity of his output would have been effected. His isolation motivated him to fill the emptiness with passsion and zeal for his work.
A blog revamp? Grrreat – hope it's something sexy, in a manner of speaking, to compliment saucy and sassy posts, links and…ebooks.
Roll on surprise Monday!
Oh, brother, that was me trying to be hiliarous. I should leave the hilarity to Mira. Btw, very funny post today, Mira. 🙂
Katharine O'Moore-Klopf says
There was even more good stuff in the publishosphere this week. Two bloggers wrote paeans to copyeditors, making it seem to be unofficial Copyeditor Appreciation Week:
Ode to a Copy Editor
Hail to the Copy Editor
Dara says
Oooh, a new blog design? And more "surprises" in store on Monday? I think this is the first time in a long while I've ever looked forward to a Monday…somewhat 😛
And if eReaders go below $100, I'm thinking I may have to get one….you may just have another eBook convert if that happens 🙂 Of course I'll still buy the "old-fashioned" books too!
Kristopher and Crew says
I read Konrath's posts about ebooks, and while I'm one of those paper book die hards that still look at e-readers with a mix of fear and covetousness (That's right, covetousness!) His idealized world with an e-reader is pretty blasted cool.
Allison says
Here's the thing that bothers me about the furor over self-publishing. Everyone is behaving as though once a book is published that it automatically lands on shelves at the local bookstore and in catalogs for online book sellers. That just doesn't happen. Consumers won't get confused because unless the self-pubber can convince a buyer to stock it, the consumer will never see it.
As a writer, I honestly don't care if someone else wants to take a short cut to seeing their name on a book cover. I want to be published because I wrote a quality story that someone else sees value in sharing. Success in that will never be devalued by someone on an ego trip with a pile of books in their back seat and no audience.
Lisa Lenard-Cook says
It's taken me this long to read all the links. Thank you for the time & energy it must have taken to compile them. Each was worth the click.
A friend recently pointed me to your blog. Love it. Thank you.
Nick says
Nathan,
While I can agree with that, one also has to consider how one defines "book". Is a book a just a published story? Or is it the tangible product we have now? I can definitely agree with your statements, but I'm just saying, it's a bit subjective. Because personally, I categorize e-book and book as separate things, and I'm willing to bet other people do, too. Similar products, but like VHS and DVD, they are not the same. Now, like I said, I think that article is a bit OTT, but I think there are some valid points there being blown out of proportion. And really, if e-books do continue to catch on, given the continued trend of digitizing everything, won't the book eventually die out? Oh sure, it might not be in any of our lifetimes. Might not even be until the 51st century. But it might happen. And, well, I just don't like change, really.
And yes I realize this response is late. Retired a bit early last night and then I woke up this morning to find it snowing. From the way I react every year you'd think I'd never seen snow before.
Nathan Bransford says
nick-
I agree that there are things that are lost (and gained) with the transition to e-books. But I don't think an e-book is anything approaching a fundamentally different experience from a book. The important thing about a book are the words.
As I've said elsewhere, Casablanca is Casablanca whether you're watching it in a theater, on a DVD or on your phone. And MOBY DICK is MOBY DICK whether you read it via ink or pixels.
A book is a book as long as you're reading the words.
Sure, there are disruptions to bookstores and some peripheral aspects of the reading experience that are lost like the smell and feeling of the book in your hands. But those elements are just the means to the end. I'm sure people nostalgized scrolls and stone tablets. The words are where the power lies.
Books aren't going to disappear, no more than typewriters and horse riding has disappeared. They'll be rarer and more precious, but we never completely abandon the past. Nor should we.
But to suggest that all of this amounts to a Holocaust? That's just a pathetic gasp of technophobia. He should be ashamed.
Nick says
"Books aren't going to disappear, no more than typewriters and horse riding has disappeared. They'll be rarer and more precious, but we never completely abandon the past. Nor should we."
is really about the only point I'd argue. I think, eventually, they will. Not disappear entirely, but I do think that, again eventually, books will end up like scrolls and stone tablets — museum pieces. Honestly, when was the last time outside of a film, Renaissance fair, or museum have you seen a scroll? I sure haven't seen any. Now like I said before, it may well be centuries before we reach that point, but I do believe it will, ultimately, come to pass.
Melanie Avila says
Nathan, you crack me up.
Good info too. Thanks.
lilywhite says
"I agree that Alan Kaufman is using rather offensive hyperbole. But it may come from his family's past experience. He’s the son of Holocaust survivors."
That makes his ignorance all the more reprehensible. He of all people ought to know better than to make a comparison of such magnitude. It makes him sound like an idiot and it cheapens what his parents went through. If comments were allowed at that article, I'd certainly have told him so. He ought to be ashamed of himself.
Godwin's Law, indeed. Alan Kaufman loses at the internet!
Anonymous says
"And meanwhile, via How Publishing Really Works comes an article on how self-publishing doesn't (usually) work."
In the future, could you please link to an article by someone who knows what self-publishing is and not someone who is still suffering under the mainstream delusion that self-publishing is the exact same thing as Vanity Press?
M'Kay?
I'm sorry, but I see this all the time from agents, publishers and writers — I see this general 'Self Publishing is B.A.D. and no one makes any money.' mantra chanted by people who have no clue what self-publishing is or what it has become and who are ignorant of the growing number of success stories from people who have made as much (or more) money self-publishing than they ever could have done going through the mainstream press.
This is true now more than ever as both Agents and Publishers become insulated from new ideas by a poor economy.
If you want someone to write you up a Real Article on self publishing (Or How You TOO can make as much as New York Times Bestselling Author) please let me know.
Nathan Bransford says
anon-
I'm not anti-self-publishing in the slightest, and I think it will increasingly be a part of the publishing landscape in the future.
At the same time, I think it's important to counter a lot of the myths that are out there about how easy/rosy it is to self-publish. I thought the article was a pretty good assessment of how hard it really is for self-published authors and how a lot of the chip-on-your-shoulder-eff-mainstream-publishing attitude is an easy cover for the fact that the vast majority of self-published books are self-published because the quality isn't there. Sure, there are obviously exceptions, but there are lots of myths and exaggerated success stories out there, and the reality isn't so easy.
I've seen this new meme coming out (and you basically repeat it here) that self-publishing is vastly different than "vanity" publishing, i.e. whether you pay someone up front or not makes a massive difference. I think people are exaggerating the difference.
With what is normally referred to as "self-publishing" you theoretically don't incur any upfront costs. That is, provided you do your own production, cover design, etc. etc. But you're not going to get a particularly good deal from a self-publisher and will have to give up a pretty big chunk of the profits. With a self-publisher like Lulu it's extremely difficult to set a $14.95 price point for a trade paperback and hope to make any money at all.
Meanwhile, with "vanity" publishing, assuming the deal isn't a ripoff, you are essentially subsidizing the print run with cash up front, but authors typically get far more on the back end. You pay for the books, you keep more of the profit.
Either way, you're sharing a chunk with the self-publisher. There's just higher risk/higher reward with "vanity" publishing and lower risk/lower reward with self-publishing.Provided you're not getting ripped off there's really not a massive difference between the two. Self-publishing is self-publishing.
And it ain't easy no matter how you slice it. Everyone who is considering it should go in eyes wide open.
Jelle says
So am I the only one looking at the anti-piracy "fake book" plan and the Harlequin Horizons/DellArte plan and thinking that combining the two ideas may just be a win-win situation here?
Anonymous says
The advantages I've seen from self-publishing go beyond personal vanity or memento publication.
Number one, affordable short print runs for specialized or localized projects. Chapbooks, recipe books, yearbooks, project manuals, guide books, etc., of a local, regional, or civic, religious, municipal interest. Nonfiction.
Fiction, affordable short print run self-published for advance review copy distribution, course work, (nonfiction too), local interest, and memento publication.
No content at all, lined casecover journals. I once put together by hand a dozen casecover journal books in stitch binding. The covers were wrapped with blue dungaree fabric with the backseat pockets (Levis) on the front side. Get it? Pocket books. They were a big hit with the family's teenage girls I gave them to as gifts.
I do these sorts of projects for fun, profit, and prestige, for gifts too. For churches, for civic organizations, for municipal organizations, for friends and family, for acquiantances who come my way and want my expertise. Sometimes I do it for the money, sometimes as a volunteer, civicly responsible citizen.
I have no illusions that if there's no advance interest in a self-published work, there's no sales beyond a memento value. But every self-published work I've done exceeded fulfillment expectations.
Word verificate: grucked, what a bookbinder feels like after a week of hand-stitching books.
Nathan Bransford says
anon-
You're just trolling at this point. I've never been anti-self publishing and am well aware of the pros and cons as well as the different models. Feel free to point out where you disagree with me but at least try and read what I wrote and have written before casting insults about.
Nathan Bransford says
Whoops my comment refers to the anon I deleted not anon@4:06. Anon@4:06 is a great examlple of self-publishing that works.
essygie says
Hi – I've nominated you for a Kreativ Blogger Award over at my blog – essygie 🙂
Anonymous says
https://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/mgscnow/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091203005271&newsLang=en
CreateSpace, part of the Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) group of companies, today announced a new agreement with Lightning Source Inc., the print on-demand unit of Ingram Content Group Inc. The collaboration between the two companies will expand CreateSpace’s distribution options for its members beyond Amazon.com and CreateSpace eStores.
Under the new agreement, CreateSpace’s Books on-Demand platform will allow members to print and then distribute their titles to thousands of bookstores, libraries and online retailers. CreateSpace members will have access to this enhanced print and distribution option as part of the CreateSpace Pro Plan, a program which gives members access to lower print pricing for their own book orders and better royalties for sales on Amazon.com.
“With this expansion, CreateSpace members will not only be able to reach Amazon.com customers, but they can also reach the thousands of bookstores, libraries and online retailers that work with the Ingram Content Group, ” said Dana LoPiccolo-Giles, managing director, CreateSpace. “With Lightning Source and Ingram, our members can make their titles available to the larger book marketplace while remaining inventory-free with print on-demand.”
“At Ingram, we are passionate about books and the book industry,” said Philip Ollila, chief content officer, Ingram Content Group. “Our new relationship with CreateSpace is a continuation of Ingram’s long-term strategy to offer the broadest selection of books to our customers worldwide.”
For more information about CreateSpace, please visit http://www.createspace.com.
Ink says
Anon,
That's called a cash cow. They take the writer's money for "distribution" and likely send a list of their self-pubbed titles to bookstores (if they go that far). Which the bookstores then ignore. At which point the writer is out even more money. I'd be very, very careful of that. It's easy to promise "Hey, we'll get you in bookstores!" And much harder to do.
david elzey says
that sports illustrated isn't going to look so good on a kindle. but i think apple has a solution for that coming out next summer. the revolution will be apple-ized.
Anonymous says
"the revolution will be apple-ized."
At a retail price of $999.99 and with a standard back-lit screen rather than an E-Ink screen, Apple's upcoming Tablet PC will be outside the price range of the normal person and will be horrible eyestrain for reading books.
It will be a great product for Apple to line their pocketbooks, but it will do nothing to encourage the sale of E-books.
Or didn't we learn our lesson from what Apple did to the music industry???
What was the end result of Apple's iPod revolution? Music has been devalued (and pirated) to the point where the music industry and the artists themselves are struggling to survive.
The LAST thing any sane person wants is Apple to get involved in books.
Anonymous says
An ISBN or EAN are the hingepin for self-published title marketing. Online and brick-and-mortar book retailers won't touch a title without one. There's some wiggle room at brick and mortar bookstores–often clapboard and Sheetrock in the hinterlands–with an inside track approach, but none at online retailers.
CreateSpace and Lulu offer user provided numbers registration or assigned numbers. Lulu's ISBN assignment is free, user provided for a fee, or independent ISBN provided by Lulu for a fee–as far as I know, the only POD manufacturer that offers that range of choices. CreateSpace charges for either CS provided or user provided as well as other mandatory hidden costs a la carte. Lightning Source and xLibris require user provided numbers as do most other POD manufacturers. Vanity or poser publishers typically assign their own numbers regardless.
For user ISBN acquistion, R.R. Bowker is the U.S. concessionaire for ISBNs. They sell a block of ten ISBNs for a $30 registration fee and $245 regular processing fee. More for larger blocks and faster processing.
An ISBN gets a U.S. title listed in R.R. Bowker's Books in Print publications, annual paper book and online database. Physical store retailers rely on that publication or more commonly publisher catalogs for selection of titles to carry. If it's in there, though, they can order a title regardless of whether they carry it or not.
Amazon and Barnes & Noble online will eventually get around to listing most newly published titles, with ISBNs, in R.R. Bowker's database, typically six to eight weeks after release. But Barnes & Noble currently will not list a title with a CreateSpace ISBN. I expect Barnes & Noble's PODs, when or if that service becomes available, to be left out of Amazon's offerings.
Word verificate: piallari, proprietary reverse predation, pillorying the competition.
david elzey says
that $999.99 price tag is a myth, as are half the "leaked" details filtering out. the grail for all e-readers is $99, and by pushing it off a little further they might actually fall in line with technological developments.
what apple did to the music industry? it's what the music industry did to itself. jobs spent MONTHS trying to convince labels that "ripping" music didn't meant "stealing." they dug in their heels and they lost the battle. bands are now working OUTSIDE the "industry" and doing better then they would have before hand.
the publishing industry has some choices to make here. e-readers are here. but they aren't necessarily doing themselves any favors by aligning themselves with amazon over apple.
Christi says
You list a ton of great links, which I'll read later. I got drawn in by Sports Illustrated on Tablet. I couldn't care less about professional sports, but wow. I'm not sure if those flutters in my stomach are "woo! the future" or "ooo, the future."
I thought, I might even subscribe to SI if it's on tablet. Then, the swimsuit edition – girls in action – popped up, and my feminist eye started twitching.
But the tablet is tempting.
Kat Sheridan says
Oooo, pretty new web design!!!
Mira says
Wendy, thanks. Good to hear. 🙂
And I agree with you – being unhappy does tend to both focus the mind and create a drive for self-expression. So, I was joking, but I agree – I do think strong emotions help writing…
Nathan. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.
Gorgeous. And orange. You can not beat that.
Fantastic layout. So easy to navigate.
And.
Forums.
I'm saying that in a whisper, because it's a dream come true.
Forums. I couldn't have asked for a better surprise.
Well….
Money.
That might have been better. But the layout – wonderful.
And FORUMS.
Some happy dreams for me tonight. Very cool.
Other Lisa says
Hey, I got on a train overnight and the blog changed!
Looks very cool!
Melissa Pearl says
Go New Zealand Book Council! I am a very proud kiwi right now 🙂
GhostFolk.com says
Okay, Anon 4:06, you got me with this one:
Fiction, affordable short print run self-published for advance review copy distribution
I am MOST curious how this might work.
Professional storytellers and other who routiunely perform or do presentations for live audiences can benefit greatly from self-publication.
Folks who already have a retail outlet, perhaps in a tourist area, can do well with an approproate self-pub at the checkout counter.
But, seriously, the trial for self-pubbed titles is selling the things. Esepcially fiction. It's hard work day in and day out.
OMG, Nathan, Sean outdid himself! You are so web-glamorous now!
Ink says
Great new site! But shouldn't that antique typewriter be an e-reader?
😉
Gordon Jerome says
I like the new look.
Susan Quinn says
I'm so glad to see your favorite color is still orange! 🙂
The site is wicked cool. I love the nod to paper, in this time of e-ink.
And Forums?? Good Lord, man. Do you know how much time I can spend procrastinating there?
Kudos to Sean!
Ciara says
swish new design! (i'm new to your blog by the way but i just caught the last few weeks of the old style)
Raynbow says
The new format rocks! I love the typewriter. Just seeing it makes me very thankful for computers.
Terry Towery says
Love the new look, Nathan. And forums, too! 🙂