Ewrick's Rabbit Hole

The long wait is now over, our favourite “out there” mag­azine Wisp is now available in a much expected printed format.

Two volumes have been made so far, each full color, with 100 pages of 3 con­sec­utive issues.

Follow the links below if you want to order your copy. The archives can still be seen for free on the website http://wisp.focusphere.net.

Wisp — Volume 1 (2008)

Wisp — Volume 2 (2008)

written by Yuki \\ tags: book, links, lulu, print-on-demand, stories, syncs, web, wisp

Wisp — volume 2 / front cover

After having pub­lished with much sat­is­faction a few books¹ with Lulu (one of the main actors in the print-on-demand ser­vices) this post is listing some of the things that may be useful to know (or to remember after a bit of trial and errors) to design a source file that will produce the perfect PDF file.

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written by Yuki \\ tags: adobe, book, circle of eights, eps, ezine, indesign, lulu, pdf, print-on-demand, process, wisp

The book has arrived this morning!

It’s a com­pi­lation of the stories we’ve started to write about a year ago (Sept. 12 2007 to be accurate) at 8 hands (Tracy’s, Lee Muir’s, Jib’s and mine). Circle of Eights the title, is a ref­erence at the inter­locking circles that brought our interests together, as sym­bolized by the pseu­donym for the author’s name which is made by merging our nick­names.
It is much more than one story actually, and quite dif­ficult to sum­marize as it’s inter­active, non-linear, and spans many interests at once. A bit of a chal­lenge to get the hang of it, but immensely rewarding in fun.

We’ve decided to publish a first volume of these stories as much for our own per­sonal pleasure as it’s also a way to have the content more easily explored. Coin­ci­den­tally, the 888^th addition to the stories was made on August 8^th 2008, but it’s only one of the many syn­chronic­ities that sur­rounded the creation.

I chose Lulu to print the book, which is a self-publishing service, and the quality is really great, as you can tell on the pictures.

It’s a really large book (350 pages black and white, perfect bound). The exterior (paperback) is all shiny and Tracy’s picture of the cave in Jimena, Spain is looking awesome on the back.

A look inside, with illus­tra­tions I created along the stories

If you want to give it a read, there is the stories website, and the link to order Circle of Eights.

Woohoo

(2009–03-12 EDIT: the second volume is out too)

written by Yuki \\ tags: book, circle of eights, elikozoe, pictures, stories, yurara fameliki

Some­times, there are stories which are par­tic­u­larly mean­ingful to us.

Dis­cussing with Finn about her floating on a raft com­ments, and her serendip­itous dis­covery of the book Life of Pi by Canadian author Yann Martel, I was reminded of a similar period where I found great comfort in reading such an adventure of drifting on the oceans.

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