It’s a Book

by Tom Trumpinski • Jul 24th, 2008 at 1:12 pm • 5 comments

Riding the Hell-bound Train just went on sale ten minutes ago.

Thanks for all of your patience, since took five months longer than I originally planned. I’ve got a new short-short story ready for the inaugural issue of the new, improved Urbanagora and am looking forward to a long and enjoyable run there.

Billy, Brian, Joshua–you’re the best.

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  1. Comment by JayBandit on 24 July 2008 at 2:11 pm:

    Tom,

    Congrats on the book; the cover is awesome!

  2. Comment by tet on 24 July 2008 at 2:21 pm:

    Oh, very welcome, Jay. A local artist, Sean-Thomas Gunnell, did both covers. I’m a lot more fond of the back, which illustrates Gail and Brenn’s farm from the Titan stories.

    Interesing economics point, which I didn’t expect. I get twice the royalties on downloads that I get on the paper copies. I feel great that saving trees brings me more money.

    I originally planned on keeping the price below $25 and I was delighted to be able to give readers damn near 400 pages for $20. Peregrination Press has been extremely generous to me, as well as being helpful every step of the way. John Barnstead is an angel.

    There is a lot less politics in the book than I had originally planned. If you look over the Table of Contents, you’ll find that just over 60% of the material in the book is Urbanagora published. A lot of the articles I wrote for the blog were just not good enough when it came time to decide what we used for the book and what we didn’t. If I was to guess, I say we used about half of my 2006-07 blog article output.

    (You can see the Table of Contents by clicking on the number at the top of the page, over the book.)

    Tom

  3. Comment by Joshua on 24 July 2008 at 4:02 pm:

    Congrats Tom! We’re all very proud of your effort in putting out your first book, and for being able to be part of your next career.

    I’ve ordered my copy of the book :)

  4. Comment by illinikc33 on 24 July 2008 at 8:59 pm:

    Congratulations!

  5. Comment by Billy Joe Mills on 24 July 2008 at 10:00 pm:

    Congrats Tommy Boy…Writing a book and creating knowledge for posterity is the highest human achievement.

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