Just shipped the last of the first edition of “Little-Known Facts About Various Marine-Dwelling Animals”. If it’s not asking too much, please let me know when your orders arrive. Comments also welcome on the flickr thing. Recipients of complimentary booze included in orders of 5 or more also of course let me know if bottles break in transit and ruin books, still wondering if that was a good idea.
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Book update
The first batch of “Little-Known Facts About Various Marine-Dwelling Animals” orders ships this morning. That orange envelope, for example, contains 3 copies going to the illustrator, Bran. The one on top is addressed to somewhere in California. The one on the bottom, the first one ordered, is going to Denmark.
So far I have bound 40. I am waiting for some more Washi before putting covers on the rest next week. The rest will ship then.
It looks like the limited first edition of 50 copies will sell out this week. There are about 10 left right now. Or so. Give or take. I haven’t checked my email in the last two minutes to see if any new orders have come in, so one never knows.
More info on the book and ordering on this page here.
Posted in Little-Known Facts, Metamorphosism
International Release Party for Little-Known Facts About Various Marine-Dwelling Animals
The book, Little-Known Facts About Various Marine-Dwelling Animals, is being released today. It is written by me and illustrated by Bran. I know some really critical people and they like both the texts and the illustrations.
You can read a little more about the book here. You can also order the book online from that page, and there is a flickr slide show of all the covers so far. There is some variety, and if you have any preferences you can let me know, but orders will be filled on a first-come-first-serve basis so there is no guarantee you will get the exact book you want.
Only 50, give or take a couple, copies of this hand-bound first edition will be produced. So you might want to order soon.
There is a flickr set showing the covers etc here.
The book is 82 pages, unnumbered, and chock full of neat illustrations by Bran.
The price is €16, which is about $23.50 depending on exchange rates, and includes shipping and handling to anywhere in the world.
Any nice comments may be posted in the comments to this post. Any questions etc should probably be mailed to metamorphosist (at) gmail (dot) com. Thanks!
Posted in Little-Known Facts, Metamorphosism
Little-known facts about the flounder
Flounder are a flexible fish, not limiting themselves to a single species. In the Western Atlantic you have your summer flounder (Paralichtys dentatus), your southern flounder (Paralichtys lethostigma) and the winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus). In addition, there is the European Platichthys flesus, and the Paralichtys olivaceus off Japan.- In addition, the flounder is sometimes also called a fluke.
- But if you say “It was only a fluke,” a flounder will kill your ass.
- Which is not to say flounders are without a sense of humor. Most flounder jokes start with the phrase, “Peter Falk and Sammy Davis Jr. walk into a bar…”
- The eye thing: this is called metamorphosis. Like most people, the flounder grows up, changes its habits and spends its adulthood with one cheek to the seabed looking out for stuff. The eye on the seabed side migrates to the other side somehow.
- They are looking for predators, and prey, and that actress who plays Sookie Stackhouse on True Blood.
- The flounder is crazy about its offspring. Not even a grizzly would go between a flounder and its young, this is in fact one reason grizzlies are rarely found on the sea bed at any depth, from shallow coastal waters to the Marianas Trench, unlike flounder.
- The flounder likes its young in a vast variety of ways, and is deeply hurt when its young treat it like a cash dispenser because to be reduced from such a huge variety of affection to a single aspect is painful to the fish, but it recovers quickly and forgets all about it, pretty much.
- The flounder has, although it still considers basic social dancing competency an important skill, come to the conclusion that it would rather be whipped than take dance lessons. With sort of a medium whip, nothing too wild.
- Flounder look friendly and harmless, which benefits them because they ambush their prey. Also they blend into their environment, because they can never remember how to spell “camouflague” “camouflage”.
- Flounder stocks overfishing blah blah blah.
Posted in Metamorphosism