Ep. 219: Pop-up Book & Books for Sale

Update: Feeding Vicki’s Corpse now available on Apple iBooks! (Sorry for the interruption)

I have dipped my creative toes into the world of pop-up books. These books, when done by really creative professional pop-up bookmakers like Colette Fu, Matthew Reinhold, Duncan Birmingham, and this site which has many, many more artists, are fascinating. When done by beginners like myself, well, not so much. But we all have to start somewhere and for me that is being confused. However, I did make one pop-up book. A small one with three tricks. 

Trick one was the ‘normal’ one of a picture popping up. In this case it was the Japanese kanji for kanji (漢字), which, as you can see, is two kanji. Trick two was the Japanese kanji for heiwa (peace) which is 平和. Also two kanji. While the kanji for kanji popped up, the kanji for peace involves a pull-tab. The 平 (hei) portion of the kanji slides up to the 和 portion to make one word: Peace (Heiwa). The third trick used the kanji for laugh: 笑 or warai. It uses a pull-tab but the kanji moves up and down as if it were dancing. At least, that was my hope; so far everyone who has seen it dance has laughed so, Mission Accomplished! (?)

If you zip over to my Instagram page you can click on a short video of the parts moving. Please remember it is my very first pop-up book; be kind.

Fiction

Fear Zero has a video on YouTube video, so if you have about three minutes you can spare check out TDGB 024 Fear Zero. I have written about 5,000 more words on the first book of The Fear Trilogy: Fear Itself, bringing the total to 25,000. I have tightened it up as well. It is approximately 50% finished. After it is finished, I have two more Fear novels to write. Wish me luck.

The sequel or prequel to City of Cocks is available as well. Feeding Vicki’s Corpse is a murder mystery. A retired Boston police detective with a troubling past is asked to investigate a seemingly random murder. He soon discovers a rape and a conspiracy. As he deals with a ghost from his past and his own alcoholism, he unravels the conspiracy and links the murder with the rape. 

Feeding Vicki’s Corpse has many of the same characters as City of Cocks. Feeding Vicki’s Corpse takes place when they are  younger, but we can see how they will mature in the future.

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