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The other day I started work on the cover for A Christmas Carol, creating a 3D model of the crutches in Blender: It's still very much a work-in-progress, but it's coming along well. And I'm still proofing Phantastes. Other than that, I've upgraded to a ...

Because proofreading Phantastes is taking longer than I expected, I'm going to publish a Riverglen Press edition of Dickens' A Christmas Carol in the meantime. It's shorter (~100 pages), which means I can finish it quickly and order a hardcover edition while I toil away at Phantastes. If ...

For my Middle English class today we visited Special Collections. I've been there several times before (we went there five or six times for my History of the Book class last winter semester, and I'd been there a couple of times before that), but seeing 500-year-old books is always ...

I figured I'd be more motivated to finish Phantastes if I printed out the cover and put it up on my wall, so yesterday I did just that. As part of that, I came up with a new logo for Riverglen Press, which you can see on the spine ...

I've decided that if I wait until my homework's done to proofread Phantastes, it'll never get done. So goodbye, homework. :P No, really, I went through the second chapter tonight and part of the third, and I hope to get most (if not all) of the rest done ...

Remember how I mentioned a little while ago about a crazy idea to start a web magazine? I'm still planning on it, and one of the things I'll do (both for it and for this blog) is start interviewing people. There's a lot of interesting work being done ...

I’m getting back into the groove of school, thankfully. And I’d forgotten just how much I enjoy doing homework. :) (I say that without any sarcasm, honest.) For example, I just finished translating the first three chapters of Cicero’s First Catilinarian Oration and reading an 80-page historical ...

I've been reading Marshall Lee's Bookmaking. Great book. ~drool~ :) I'm in the middle of revising the romanized Thai hymnbook for the MTC. I've also printed out a proof manuscript of Phantastes (using InDesign's export-as-spreads feature) so I can proofread it at home. Still haven't done much on ...

Turns out that the Project Gutenberg text of Phantastes has a lot of typos, at least when comparing against my 1916 edition, so I have to proof it even more than usual. Oh well. :) It's a wee bit time-consuming, so the book won't be done as soon ...