Evolution
Wednesday, September 3, 2008

We’re working on getting Underland online version 2.0 up and running. My goodness, there’s a lot to work out. As a naturalized citizen in the technology world, I have a healthy, honest respect for all those who have navigated these streets before me. But. Last night, I had an epiphany about the web in general and the Underland site in particular. The web is an organic system, and, as an organic system, it is ruled more by its evolving nature than by its static nature. Which is just to say, everything changes, and will continue to change, and to hopefully get better as we go.

Nothing huge, just a slight paradigm shift. Here’s to sleeping better in the knowledge that everything will come in its own due time.

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Bloggers
Friday, September 12, 2008


We thank you, kind bloggers…

http://www.zimbio.com/Fiction+Views/articles/24/Then+There+Was+Underland+Press

http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2008/09/press-release-introducing-underland.html

http://ofblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/september-8-10-book-porn.html

http://www.mysterybookspot.com/brianlindenmuth/?p=319

http://horrorfictionnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=365&Itemid=610

http://theundeadrat.com/introducing-underland-press/

http://charles-tan.blogspot.com/2008/09/couple-o-plugs.html

http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/007157.html

http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/VampireFaust/newwith/me/?eid=1220896480_17_108178671

http://thexmedic.livejournal.com/59932.html

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Book Porn
Friday, September 12, 2008

 

Now-a-days in book publishing, publishing companies have the ability to print full color covers for their galley proofs, making the proof look more like a book than like a proof. It doesn't cost a whole lot more to print in full color, and the result is pretty nice. But what about the joy of receiving one of those black-and-white galleys? What about the anticipation of imagining the cover before the cover is released? What about the feeling of scarcity, the knowlege that you and perhaps only a few hundred more of your reading friends are priveleged enough to see the book in its nacent, developmental form? What about publishing as process, not simply as result?

A few thoughts, on seeing the book porn listing here. I'm happy to see that Tor also sent a black-white-galley. Long live old school style!

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DFW
Monday, September 15, 2008

It's a sad, sad day. I read "Infinite Jest" in college, and then I read everything else I could get a hold of from him. I, like thousands of other readers, sighed a little into my beer when I heard he got married. And I seriously considered camping out on the lawn of his college in order to strike up a conversation on his way to or from one of his classes. He got at the heart of things. He used grammar better than any other living writer I've read. He set the bar high. I'm glad we had him for as long as we did, and I'm glad we have his books, still.

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