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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 ...

I just read Paul Graham's latest essay, "How Art Can Be Good". It's excellent, and quite inspiring. I also recommend his "Taste for Makers" essay. And most of the other ones, too. :) [tags]art, Paul Graham[/tags]

I've finally created an RSS feed for Riverglen Press. Right now it's just new releases, and the in-the-works notes will still show up on here. (Later on I'll add a blog to RiverglenPress.net and move them over.) RSS feeds are amazing simple to make, by the way. ...

I'm pleased to announce that Phantastes is finally available for PDF download from Riverglen Press: I'm not really worrying (or caring) about making a Lulu edition at this point. Maybe in a couple of weeks I won't be as frustrated with them ...

I'm more frustrated with Lulu. ~sigh~ Apparently you can't track book sales if you don't have a creator revenue set (i.e., if you're selling the books at cost). You can see how many have been sold total, but there's no breakground. Bah. So, I've had to set a ...

I finished reading Scott McCloud's book Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's been years since I read comics (mostly Superman and Pogo and such), but now I think I may pick it up again. The most riveting parts of the book for ...

My Moo MiniCards came in the mail the other day. They're beautiful! I'd heard a lot about them before, and I'll admit I had some hesitancy when I ordered mine -- mainly because my experiences getting stuff printed haven't always ...

I'm pleased to announce that Dickens' A Christmas Carol is now available for download and purchase: I'll try to finish up Phantastes soon, and I'm also going to try to redesign the site (and add an RSS feed) before ...

I was reading Cool Tools today and came across an article on Blurb and Lulu. Blurb sounds really neat, and it's much cheaper than iPhoto (and the quality is apparently better than Lulu for color). I ordered How to Make a Book from them, since it's ...

I brought my Graphire tablet up to campus today and decided to have another go at digital painting. This time I used ArtRage 2 instead of Photoshop. Let me just say that being able to mix colors is really, really nice. :) I'm now seriously considering ...