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I've been working on a new book for the past little while, and it's almost done. And I need proofreaders.

After a (far too) long absence, I've finally published a new Riverglen Press book, Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: I mainly made it as a test to see how Lulu's pocket size books ...

I'm having to use Quark for a book project I inherited, and ick, ew, it's so...blech! Okay, that's too harsh. And I realize that a lot of it has to do with my having used InDesign for so long. But I really, really, really don't like Quark. It ...

Time for another update, I think. :) That old PC I mentioned had issues with my monitor (it would just go blank), and it was fairly slow anyway, so I bought a newer yet still used box from some guy on Facebook Marketplace. It came with Xubuntu already installed, conveniently, ...

Lately I've been more silent on here than I'd like, so here's some of the stuff I've been working on lately. (And hopefully I'll start posting more frequently. :)) First, I'm wrapping things up on the phone directory for my ward: (Yes, I realize all of ...

Everyone has been interested in seeing A New Perspective, but eventually my dad's birthday rolled around, so I no longer have it. Since it's really nice to have it around to show people, I decided to revise it a bit and republish it....

Last week I put together a Blurb book with some of my photos for my dad's birthday. It only took about half an hour, most of which was spent in deciding which pictures to use. And it arrived yesterday afternoon. :)...

My mom wanted me to finish up my new edition of Adventures in Thailand (my mission letters home -- the ones I wrote for public consumption, which you can read right now at Blank Slate), so I decided to finish it up today. I hadn't realized it was ...

I've been rather busy with school, but if I can keep on top of my homework, Riverglen Press work should continue to go forward. In theory. :) So, my two projects right now are Grimm's Hausmärchen (as I've mentioned a few times) and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (which I ...

I'm working on two new projects for Riverglen Press. The first is a student edition of Beowulf: It's intended for students of Old English, with ample room for notes and glosses. At 30 lines a page, and 3182 lines in the poem, the whole thing ...