tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59903063791061931372024-02-06T21:25:57.609-08:00Writing & Illustrating Books for Children by James RumfordJames Rumfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491384889423732489noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990306379106193137.post-73941666543790144722020-10-27T12:36:00.002-07:002020-10-31T17:36:22.104-07:00Director’s Cut<p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Many movie buffs love it when a favorite movie can be seen as the director saw it. These so-called “director’s cuts” sometimes show the original intent of the director before the producer or movie studio or marketing got a hold of the film and made changes they thought necessary.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Recently, one of my publishers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, returned the rights to some of my books which had gone out of print. I decided that I would republish some of these books and take the opportunity to make a few changes. I have called these books “author’s editions.” <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Some of these changes involved a word or two here and there. Others transformed the design of the book either to reflect what I had originally intended or what I now feel the book should project in terms of theme and mood.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Still others involved correcting some illustration that had bothered the heck out of me after it was printed. You know what I mean, if you are an illustrator—an unintended line that marred a facial expression, a fold in a shirt or pant leg that suggested an undisclosed deformity, a missing line that if replaced could embolden the image.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Finally, because I intended to publish my books through Amazon’s Kindle Publishing Direct, I had to change all “landscape” books to “portrait” and make judicious cuts to illustrations and reinterpret page layout.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For my 2007 edition of <i>Beowulf, A Hero’s Tale Retold, </i>I decided to redo the backgrounds. Back then I didn’t know how to piece together a background design in Photoshop. I had to go with a blown-up, rather blurry, background from one of the illustrations.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now I have just the design I had intended to use behind the illustrations and the text.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_I5mXZOzWRhtLxh0iFVTM7sat9XgJLMBnzIyxPT9sv1hd63xX633yXFGVX4svPjOsp9Ww5veaP7ldUkJlURI5GfzKniIechwYltVudJe_ZqxtJkBAXyO99aRKsaO31xKoQRlIAgEbL-0/s2048/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+9.23.52+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1289" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_I5mXZOzWRhtLxh0iFVTM7sat9XgJLMBnzIyxPT9sv1hd63xX633yXFGVX4svPjOsp9Ww5veaP7ldUkJlURI5GfzKniIechwYltVudJe_ZqxtJkBAXyO99aRKsaO31xKoQRlIAgEbL-0/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+9.23.52+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhki_p-NQiMrUr_R_2GDYSU6rNS1nFo4BTWX-trs1T9L8LWYJGX42g83hVRj97v88BrTkfQZ-Qu-Jk2dloiZ1BwXAViApEMDnUdiY1W5Vtqxz6wBAd8IjhpNV1QD3BgiWBmlA22D9Fso-w/s2048/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+9.26.05+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1290" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhki_p-NQiMrUr_R_2GDYSU6rNS1nFo4BTWX-trs1T9L8LWYJGX42g83hVRj97v88BrTkfQZ-Qu-Jk2dloiZ1BwXAViApEMDnUdiY1W5Vtqxz6wBAd8IjhpNV1QD3BgiWBmlA22D9Fso-w/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+9.26.05+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Also, I didn’t know, or it never occurred to me, that I could change the coloration of an illustration to reflect the mood I wanted to portray. The original illustrations were all done in green, but after thirteen years I realized that they didn’t all have to be green. Some could be tinted blue, others tinted orange. Photoshop, and years of experience, allowed me to do this.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicikictl5fGEW6HDWDpiSniWmAvRuAlU21PPrA1G8b01Obfe3jL8qXlmb13UXkRm0F_dgT0gQxE7hIqkVB7jNCqjKPZ_tHPnpne-FbbzFEudt8Ecuwi8kmZXEKMgW7afGRnzKrlehwoKw/s2048/Beo+blast+pg39.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1597" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicikictl5fGEW6HDWDpiSniWmAvRuAlU21PPrA1G8b01Obfe3jL8qXlmb13UXkRm0F_dgT0gQxE7hIqkVB7jNCqjKPZ_tHPnpne-FbbzFEudt8Ecuwi8kmZXEKMgW7afGRnzKrlehwoKw/s320/Beo+blast+pg39.jpg" width="320" /></a> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg97HX87VYa1_0osIwjnQGAKyCOwuShL-GE1DwpfBCZXsTJVbrkqUs3zCaB3oqfC3-ymSt9deE-9ogrQnw7bQwOUREbf3OWxVUQ5QsdafRkXq02CqjpMIrLpi-aaSnVFGdTl-V-QBnf-FI/s2048/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+9.20.56+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1607" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg97HX87VYa1_0osIwjnQGAKyCOwuShL-GE1DwpfBCZXsTJVbrkqUs3zCaB3oqfC3-ymSt9deE-9ogrQnw7bQwOUREbf3OWxVUQ5QsdafRkXq02CqjpMIrLpi-aaSnVFGdTl-V-QBnf-FI/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+9.20.56+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div></div><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For the Houghton Mifflin edition of <i>Chee-lin</i>, I had made complicated backgrounds on my computer, which I thought went well with the illustrations. But last month, I decided that the backgrounds had to go. Wouldn’t a simpler page layout enhance the illustrations and set them off as they should be?</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXkX69h9ymviO2qRjq9KJbPJUFPm3lAAwopMHwUZJ_1vKTDAyOQyPZgYoajPkFMYr7O_v-aStcO6D1IdqBAYxPaYHE5jgwW4atHeXNYWcJuPQmubAraw9phnM5Z7ZOFLDhM3OOcfji5Wo/s2048/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+9.09.51+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXkX69h9ymviO2qRjq9KJbPJUFPm3lAAwopMHwUZJ_1vKTDAyOQyPZgYoajPkFMYr7O_v-aStcO6D1IdqBAYxPaYHE5jgwW4atHeXNYWcJuPQmubAraw9phnM5Z7ZOFLDhM3OOcfji5Wo/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+9.09.51+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtsF8jKh9Q84H5ZT3o-4suszbJHAbtAY5KcaKjjxGR-3vHQ76if_Uggb9e4Hj7UTXUpjfDgBFAg2Q_xMAe-VvdskIIirACoWx3Uinui0gBoVLJS_Umai5hM9gLFJymbdy-2OGVGOu1gjk/s2048/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+9.10.30+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtsF8jKh9Q84H5ZT3o-4suszbJHAbtAY5KcaKjjxGR-3vHQ76if_Uggb9e4Hj7UTXUpjfDgBFAg2Q_xMAe-VvdskIIirACoWx3Uinui0gBoVLJS_Umai5hM9gLFJymbdy-2OGVGOu1gjk/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+9.10.30+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoaDDjDHecjUr3-bw1dpaQkTLCgPt9WC_h3bR-wOwaU9GsmTo_pFSKn57UPG98HSsyaarfxFojIWURPlMVHj0doqCHW3uJMae-LelBMPbEYks07UZuA7yKg08QVecgGQLr7cyx3dstj-Y/s2048/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+9.11.14+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoaDDjDHecjUr3-bw1dpaQkTLCgPt9WC_h3bR-wOwaU9GsmTo_pFSKn57UPG98HSsyaarfxFojIWURPlMVHj0doqCHW3uJMae-LelBMPbEYks07UZuA7yKg08QVecgGQLr7cyx3dstj-Y/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+9.11.14+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5GRMcdHEKBANOvhcoqg4F3CUoA3FAaoqv0zIqdvUrohO68D6ZiAozSvFOGEqgUEllOayUJQq3d7Pbvhgd3x28ULa0hBWt9XevdRF6ctvLGdgU7h33YTaFFlINzRADClUC28u2PaTKs_E/s2048/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+9.11.50+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5GRMcdHEKBANOvhcoqg4F3CUoA3FAaoqv0zIqdvUrohO68D6ZiAozSvFOGEqgUEllOayUJQq3d7Pbvhgd3x28ULa0hBWt9XevdRF6ctvLGdgU7h33YTaFFlINzRADClUC28u2PaTKs_E/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+9.11.50+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For my first book, <i>The Cloudmakers, </i>I made only minor changes. I added a cloud design to the pages and changed the illustrations from landscape orientation to portrait. I also fiddled with the anatomy of the figures. Heads were correctly seated on shoulders. The boy’s shoulders became less manly, etc. I had to restrain myself and not make too many changes. After all, this was my first book.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnDBXdirgXo3mhKMqyptyzox18w0aeveqkB-L8UIplIjpV_DpByLz2QXX4-QlHxy2WxQ3rMR301FHXDeJsXjpWUA-So8wV53UcCwEWH2tDt-6EVlnuubViLN8vTapm9DCJSMQ3s9zZcM8/s2048/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+9.31.44+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1295" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnDBXdirgXo3mhKMqyptyzox18w0aeveqkB-L8UIplIjpV_DpByLz2QXX4-QlHxy2WxQ3rMR301FHXDeJsXjpWUA-So8wV53UcCwEWH2tDt-6EVlnuubViLN8vTapm9DCJSMQ3s9zZcM8/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+9.31.44+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihHZFLibb-hV84MR3nJY1wGgMkREt7VDDa5WCf8NYh56SMEYsNq7BsPf5KXQUskqW7N-pRi1tn8Yy72zV6L90ALGt84md-M4XDd1ICQroC_xO04HwPnXGWu9EL4CC2Es5ZbFKcnu_F8H8/s2048/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+9.32.14+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1294" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihHZFLibb-hV84MR3nJY1wGgMkREt7VDDa5WCf8NYh56SMEYsNq7BsPf5KXQUskqW7N-pRi1tn8Yy72zV6L90ALGt84md-M4XDd1ICQroC_xO04HwPnXGWu9EL4CC2Es5ZbFKcnu_F8H8/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-10-27+at+9.32.14+AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And finally, I have been able to make changes to the covers. As I said in a previous blog ( May 31, 2016), covers have always been hard for me. 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They give me the opportunity to revisit old work and make improvements. They also let me return to that moment in the past when I first created the book, when I was excited about the project, when I was inspired.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"> </span> </p>James Rumfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491384889423732489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990306379106193137.post-27330292985281734922016-11-13T13:57:00.000-08:002017-02-16T07:53:36.608-08:00Each Time AgainA couple of summers ago I wrote a poem about peace called "Each Time." I posted it here (October 20th and 26th, 2014) and on my Facebook page. Since then the poem has been translated into a dozen or so more languages—thanks in large part to Olga Pastuchiv, who speaks a number of languages including Ukrainian and Russian and Greek.<br />
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Olga has enlisted the help of her many friends to turn my words into languages as diverse and Basque and Albanian, Norwegian and Estonian. For anyone who likes languages as much as I do this is a real treat. But these translations go beyond any satisfaction I might feel at seeing them, scrutinizing the words, wondering what it would be like to speak these languages, going to the places where they are spoken, widening my view of the world. They go beyond this because, the poem is a quiet call to peace. It asks that peace start with the individual seeking it.<br />
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In the wake of Tuesday's election, with an uncertain future stretching far ahead of us, this poem becomes more important than ever. Here is the link to a pdf. of the translation done so far (January 2017).<br />
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My debt to Olga is immeasurable. Here is a brief look at her work and a link to a website about a mural she and a friend did.<br />
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Olga and I have discussed via email how wonderful it would be to get artists to represent their language by asking them to illustrate the poem according to their understanding of the words. Maybe some day this will happen, but for now, I have simply repeated the simple illustrations I did for the poem.<br />
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<br />James Rumfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491384889423732489noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990306379106193137.post-48929724447607187992016-06-16T11:42:00.000-07:002016-06-16T11:42:06.933-07:00You Never Know<div class="p1">
<span style="font-size: large;">A corollary to “Why Not?” in my April 17, 2016 posting is “You Never Know.”</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">You might as well do it because you never know where your efforts may lead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, with this in mind, last week, I decided to put up three more books on Amazon in a print-on-demand format. Each book has, I think, a “you-never-know” feel about it. Perhaps the book will take off. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first one is is a color version of my companion guide to <i>From the Good Mountain</i>. You can find out more about this book on my website here: <a href="http://jamesrumford.com/goodmountainguide.html">http://jamesrumford.com/goodmountainguide.html</a></span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why go to the trouble of making a color version? It isn’t as if people interested in making books in the fifteenth century are beating down the door to get a copy in black and white. No, not that at all. It has happened that a Korean publisher has purchased the rights to translate the book into Korean and, what is more, the publisher would only do it if the book were in color. So, with an attitude of “why not?” I sent the digital color files to Seoul. Who knew that Koreans would be interested in this book? Then I thought: who knows? Maybe English speakers might also be interested in a color version.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are a few pages from the color version. Yes, it is a bit more expensive, but you never know. Maybe it will attract more customers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The next book I made available on Amazon is <i>Mango Rain</i>. I tried and failed to get American publishers interested in the book. So, I translated it into Portuguese and sent it to a publisher in São Paulo, Brinque Book. After ten or so years, the book is still in print and doing quite well. It won an award and is part of the school curriculum. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, maybe my publishing </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Mango Rain, </i><span style="font-size: large;">in English may attract many of the same readers. You never can tell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The last book is <i>Kahalaopuna, </i>a traditional Hawaiian story of <i>pono </i>righteousness and <i>aloha </i>mercy. It tells of a beautiful maiden and her jealous suitor. In this Othello-like tale, the suitor winds up as part of the ridge on Mānoa Valley’s southeast side. I can see his outline from my kitchen window.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 2001, I turned the traditional tale into an illustrated children’s book as part of the efforts of the residents of Mānoa Valley to prevent the electric company from erecting huge high-tension poles on Wa‘ahila Ridge. The sale of the book was to help off-set the legal costs involved in confronting Hawaiian Electric. In small part because of the book, in large part because of the efforts of the people of this valley and of the organization Mālama Mānoa, Hawaiian Electric decided to forego installing the poles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A few weeks ago, a church in the valley asked me to come and read my story (which I’ll do tomorrow). They were disappointed to find out that the 2001 book is out-of-print. Last week, I decided to make it available once again. This time I turned it into a bilingual book, fixed up some of the images digitally, and put it up for sale on Amazon. I thought, once again, why not? And besides, I can’t know where this book will take me next.</span></div>
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<li>Okay. That part's too dark. </li>
<li>That photo is over-processed. </li>
<li>Why is that font so fussy? </li>
<li>Why didn't they use the whole space on this part—what's all the white space about? </li>
<li>And this section over here? Bor-ing. </li>
<li>This background needs to be lightened up, because you can't read the type over it. </li>
<li>Too many different fonts. </li>
<li>This one looks like they typed it in an office. </li>
<li>This one is very good. </li>
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It is, let’s face it, easier to criticize whether constructively or destructively a cover. What is difficult is to come up with a cover out of thin air. Creation is…well…like the Big Bang. It starts with nothing, gets super heated, and expands at an alarming rate. Before you know it, you have too many ideas and you are faced with too many choices. </div>
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I can’t say that all of my covers have been successful. In fact, I’d say that some of them are fairly dismal. Had Emma Rose been standing by my side, she might have pointed out some fairly obvious booboos. But, I hope that with the above, you might form a checklist of do’s and don’ts.</div>
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I’ve published <i>You Can Write Hieroglyphs</i> through my Mānoa Press. (You can get a copy here: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/You-Write-Hieroglyphs-James-Rumford/dp/1891839268/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1464723575&sr=8-1&keywords=You+can+write+hieroglyphs">http://www.amazon.com/You-Write-Hieroglyphs-James-Rumford/dp/1891839268/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1464723575&sr=8-1&keywords=You+can+write+hieroglyphs</a> ) I want the book to be a follow up of my <i>Seeker of Knowledge</i>, about François Champollion’s decipherment of ancient Egyptian, which I published through Houghton Mifflin over fifteen years ago.</div>
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<i>You Can Write Hieroglyphs</i> was inspired by Kurt Wiese’s 1946 Caldecott Honor book, <i>You Can Write Chinese, </i>a book which I loved as a second grader. </div>
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As for my <i>You Can Write Hieroglyphs</i>, here below are a few sample pages. I'm just betting there will be some kid out there that, like long-ago me, who will delight in the beauty of these hieroglyphs, copied after a scribe who lived centuries and centuries ago.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It’s been a long time. I guess I was lazy or bored or both. Probably I just forgot how much time has really passed since my last posting. At least, I’d like to blame my absence on the fleeting passage of time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But a few weeks ago, I dusted off a few manuscripts in my desk and decided to publish them myself—print-on-demand-wise. I guess I finally realized the power of </span><span style="font-size: large;">‘why not?’</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are so many obstacles in one's way, so many powerful excuses, so much procrastination in life; yet like some bully you finally tell off, the obstacles, the excuses, the <i>mañana</i>s vanish with two simple words: ‘why not?’ Why not publish those manuscripts? Why not tell people about them in this blog? Why not redo your website so that these new books have a prominent place? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And so, here is an introduction to four new books from my Mānoa Press. You can find them on Amazon. Just paste the title in the search box. The books are $12.50 or less. [Click on images to enlarge.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This book, too, began many years ago, as I was working on my book about Sequoyah, the Cherokee man who invented writing for his people. That book was published by Houghton Mifflin and was honored with many awards. As for <i>Bright Star, </i>I could find no publisher for it. Africa is too far away, too complicated for most publishers. It is hard for them to understand what happened there a hundred years ago. As for readers of such a story about an African king, where would they come from? I would like to think that such readers exist. After all, Njoya was unlike 99.9% of all the people who have ever lived. He was a Peter the Great, a George Washington of sorts, a man who understood his people and saw their potential. He stood up to colonialism in a way that made him more powerful than any rebellious leader, any guerrilla fighter or terrorist with a mass of weapons. He had but one weapon, his dignity and his belief in his people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last week, my poem was read at the United Nations Plaza during the award ceremony held by the Jane Addams Peace Association. I was delighted. (Each year the Jane Addams Peace Association recognizes those children’s books which promote world peace.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have two people to thank for getting me to write this poem in the first place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first is a woman who contacted me last May about judging the best short stories submitted by Muslim children living in the U.K. and about writing a poem for their magazine <i>Young Muslim Writers Awards, </i>which is funded by a charity called Muslim Hands.<i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was a bit hesitant. What kind of organization was Muslim Hands? What kind of magazine did they put out? And most important, did I feel up to writing a poem for children, thinking that it needed to be in rhyme? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I checked out the organization and the magazine: religious in nature and a promoter of such social values as harmony, truthfulness, and responsibility. That sounded ok to me. As for writing the poem, I decided, after talking with my writer-friend Sue Cowing, that it didn’t have to be in rhyme. That sounded ok to me, too. Even so, I didn’t have a clue what I was going to write about and without that I knew my muse wouldn’t come calling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The second person I’d like to thank is Maya Soetero Ng, the President’s sister, who provided the subject for my poem. In June, I was part of a panel discussion which Maya chaired. The panel was on writing children’s books and relevant topics for such books. One of those topics was the importance of using children’s books to promote peace. After the discussion, I told Maya about the poem I had to write. We both agreed that it should be about peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All I had to do now was wait for my muse to show up, which would be last minute, if I knew my muse. (As expected she showed up the day before the deadline.) I wrote the poem and sent it off. About two weeks ago I decided to illustrate the what I had written. Then on a whim I sent it to the Jane Addams Peace Association, from whom I had received two awards. And thus it happened that my poem was read during last week’s ceremony.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After such a long silence, I wonder whether I will connect with any of my former readers. Eight months is a long time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">During that time I have busied myself with pursuits other than blog writing. I wrote a book about the Latin poet Horace, which you can read about here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also "reconnected" with a box of oil paints that had once belonged to me as a teenager, my father before that, and his father before that. The result has been a series of seascapes that is fast filling up my house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And, I found time around Christmas to write a chapter book, which I am self-publishing through CreateSpace and which is available at their online store and on Amazon.com.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The book is called <i>The Black Orchid Code. </i>Here is the front cover of the paper back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">About seven or more years ago, I came up with the idea for this story. The idea seemed fun, and I shared it with my mentor Harriett Oberhaus, who immediately loved it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We spent the afternoon thinking of all kinds of plot points. We even came up with the main characters and the locale: Long Beach, California, where I grew up and where there was a park, an old pine tree, and the streets I knew so well. My notebook was filled with ideas.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But actually sitting down to turn these ideas into a book didn’t seem fun but hard work. So, the years passed until last Christmas, when I stumbled across a half-written first chapter. As I began to rewrite the chapter, I could see the other chapters in my mind and in no time I had a first draft of the entire book. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have always loved languages and this book fits right in with this passion. In fact, I remember a <i>Reader’s Digest</i> article back in the 60s about plant communication and plant feelings. Perhaps I wondered then what it would be like to communicate with a plant, that is, have a real conversation with it. And thus it was in the 1960s, I suppose, that the real germ of <i>The Black Orchid Code</i> began to take root. </span></div>
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James Rumfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491384889423732489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990306379106193137.post-88690467763713781112013-07-21T10:57:00.001-07:002013-07-21T10:57:49.584-07:00The Conclusion to Scrapbook<span style="font-size: large;">It has been a long time since I last posted anything. I have been busy with another project. You can find out more about that at <a href="http://www.jamesrumford.blogspot.com/">www.jamesrumford.blogspot.com</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All I have to offer this time is the conclusion to the long serialized story, which I began in September of last year. Just click on the pages below to enlarge. If you'd like to read the story from the beginning, go to the September 30, 2012 entry located in the Blog Archive to the right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My next posting will be a new serialized story, one designed for children eleven and up. I've illustrated it as well. It is called Z. Look for it soon.</span><br />
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<br />James Rumfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491384889423732489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990306379106193137.post-1543509727615428552013-05-15T12:14:00.001-07:002013-05-15T12:14:51.431-07:00Home Stretch<span style="font-size: large;">We're in the homestretch of the serialized book I began last September. Just this posting and the next later this month. Then in June, it is on to another book, this one just as fantastic. It has to do with Bamian, Afghanistan, a boy and a girl, and a mysterious zepplin. It is called <i>Z</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Introduction:</b> When Kenneth Dore’s grandmother dies, he finds on the kitchen table the scrapbook he and his sister had found in the attic several summers before. The scrapbook was intriguing and recounted the life a Rozelle G. Hodges, adventurer extraordinaire. Kenneth decides to reread the scrapbook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Chapter One:</b> Rozelle recounts her childhood and her and her brother’s fascination with Mandeville. Once she meets an Indian man who seems to corroborate Mandeville’s tale about finding the well of eternal life. Rozelle decides that she must find that well one day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Chapter Two:</b> Rozelle obtains a degree in anthropology and in 1929 sets out for Egypt to investigate a dog-headed people. There she meets Col. Lamont. The two fall in love, but he must return to England, where they plan to meet in a couple of months. Rozelle decides to take this opportunity to go to India to find the well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Chapter Three:</b> In India Rozelle goes on a wild-goose chase. Before she can do any real investigative work, the stock market crashes. She must return home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Chapter Four:</b> Col. Lamont, unable to wait for her, marries another. Dejected, Rozelle decides to go to Paraguay to search out Mandeville’s garsynts, long-necked llama-like animals. She is caught up in a war. She escapes and makes it to Brazil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Chapter Five:</b> In Brazil, she is almost lost in the Amazonian jungle looking for Mandeville’s cocodrylles. She falls in love with a Col. Lamão, but nothing comes of the affair. She returns to America and involves herself for a short time with actors and actresses in Hollywood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Chapter Six:</b> Tired of Hollywood, she decides to go to the southern Soviet Union in 1937 to look for griffins. She meets a Russian Col. Vasily Lamontov. The two fall in love, but he is sent to Kamchatka for fraternizing with an American.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Chapter Seven:</b> Rozelle goes north into Siberia in search of Mandeville’s green-skinned people. She meets a Jewish family going east. She helps them enter China.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Chapter Eight:</b> Rozelle goes into China to look for centaurs. She stays with a Col. Lai Man-t’e. In late 1937, she decides to go to India to look for the well again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Chapter Nine:</b> Rozelle goes to Rajasthan, where she believes the well to be. She meets up, quite by accident, with her college roommate, a German woman named Angela Mannheim, who is also a fervent Nazi.The Nazis want to find the well, too. They break into Rozelle’s hotel room and steal her notebook hoping to find clues to the well’s location.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Chapter Ten:</b> Rozelle leaves Rajasthan and head for the Himalayas, where she finds not only Mandeville’s gold digging ants but a wise boy named Bedil, who teaches her about greed and generosity. Rozelle returns to the US. War breaks out in Europe in 1939. In 1941 Nazi Germany invades Russia. Rozelle tries desperately to get a visa for the Soviet Union to be with Vasily Lamontov, but she is denied access. She decides to cross the Pacific and enter Russia by bribing her way across the border. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Chapter Eleven:</b> Rozelle does meet two different groups of people described by Mandeville in the Philippines, the chestheads and the umbrella people. When the war intervenes, she escapes with her life aided by the Umbrella people. She lives with them during the war. At war’s end, she is in a hospital with a parasite. She learns of Vasily Lamontov’s death. She is also investigated by the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947 because of her involvement with Lamontov. After she is cleared, she decides to go to India to look once again for the well of life.</span></div>
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<br />James Rumfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491384889423732489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990306379106193137.post-49844058623885357062013-04-17T09:08:00.000-07:002013-04-17T09:08:37.195-07:00Chapter Eleven<br />
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<b>Here is the eleventh chapter to SCRAPBOOK, which I began serializing in my blog of September 30, 2012. Below is a synopsis of past chapters. </b></div>
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<b>Introduction:</b> When Kenneth Dore’s grandmother dies, he finds on the kitchen table the scrapbook he and his sister had found in the attic several summers before. The scrapbook was intriguing and recounted the life a Rozelle G. Hodges, adventurer extraordinaire. Kenneth decides to reread the scrapbook.</div>
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<b>Chapter One:</b> Rozelle recounts her childhood and her and her brother’s fascination with Mandeville. Once she meets an Indian man who seems to corroborate Mandeville’s tale about finding the well of eternal life. Rozelle decides that she must find that well one day.</div>
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<b>Chapter Two:</b> Rozelle obtains a degree in anthropology and in 1929 sets out for Egypt to investigate a dog-headed people. There she meets Col. Lamont. The two fall in love, but he must return to England, where they plan to meet in a couple of months. Rozelle decides to take this opportunity to go to India to find the well.</div>
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<b>Chapter Three:</b> In India Rozelle goes on a wild-goose chase. Before she can do any real investigative work, the stock market crashes. She must return home.</div>
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<b>Chapter Four:</b> Col. Lamont, unable to wait for her, marries another. Dejected, Rozelle decides to go to Paraguay to search out Mandeville’s garsynts, long-necked llama-like animals. She is caught up in a war. She escapes and makes it to Brazil.</div>
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<b>Chapter Five:</b> In Brazil, she is almost lost in the Amazonian jungle looking for Mandeville’s cocodrylles. She falls in love with a Col. Lamão, but nothing comes of the affair. She returns to America and involves herself for a short time with actors and actresses in Hollywood.</div>
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<b>Chapter Six:</b> Tired of Hollywood, she decides to go to the southern Soviet Union in 1937 to look for griffins. She meets a Russian Col. Vasily Lamontov. The two fall in love, but he is sent to Kamchatka for fraternizing with an American.</div>
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<b>Chapter Seven:</b> Rozelle goes north into Siberia in search of Mandeville’s green-skinned people. She meets a Jewish family going east. She helps them enter China.</div>
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<b>Chapter Eight:</b> Rozelle goes into China to look for centaurs. She stays with a Col. Lai Man-t’e. In late 1937, she decides to go to India to look for the well again.</div>
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<b>Chapter Nine:</b> Rozelle goes to Rajasthan, where she believes the well to be. She meets up, quite by accident, with her college roommate, a German woman named Angela Mannheim, who is also a fervent Nazi.The Nazis want to find the well, too. They break into Rozelle’s hotel room and steal her notebook hoping to find clues to the well’s location.</div>
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<b>Chapter Ten:</b> Rozelle leaves Rajasthan and head for the Himalayas, where she finds not only Mandeville’s gold digging ants but a wise boy named Bedil, who teaches her about greed and generosity. Rozelle returns to the US. War breaks out in Europe in 1939. In 1941 Nazi Germany invades Russia. Rozelle tries desperately to get a visa for the Soviet Union to be with Vasily Lamontov, but she is denied access. She decides to cross the Pacific and enter Russia by bribing her way across the border. </div>
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James Rumfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491384889423732489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990306379106193137.post-21653332675979911872013-03-20T12:25:00.000-07:002013-03-20T12:25:34.474-07:00The Journey is Inspiration<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I mentioned in my last post, I was asked to write an essay for the website papertigers.org. It is titled “</span><span style="font-size: large;">It’s Not the Destination. It’s the Journey.”</span><span style="font-size: large;"> The essay is now up on their site</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even so, I thought I’d post the essay here with some illustrations from my books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Some people</i> are pretty much focused on where they are going. The journey doesn’t matter. It is just a means to an end. These people sleep through a train ride or a car ride. They read a magazine or a newspaper on the subway or bus and always seem a bit relieved when they have arrived.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’ve never been that type of person. I am one of those who can’t read on trains or go to sleep on bus rides. There is just too much to see, too much for me to think about as scene after scene unfolds before my eyes. I’m not looking through a window in a car or a train or an airplane. I’m watching a magical television screen with drama at every step of the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In my book <i>Calabash Cat, An Amazing Journey</i>, I explore the notion of destination versus journey. Calabash Cat wants to find out where the world ends. He sets off down the road, but when it ends, he is convinced that this, too, is where the world ends. A camel comes by and tells him the world is far greater and offers to show him. But when the camel gets to the edge of the desert where the grasslands begin, he stops and says, “This is the end of the world.” Of course, it isn’t, for a horse happens by and offers to expand Calabash Cat’s world even further. It turns out though that each animal Calabash Cat encounters, lives in a limited world. Finally, in despair, Calabash Cat sits down and laments, “I’ll never find the end of the world.” It is at that moment we understand the <i>yin</i> and <i>yang</i> of destination and journey. An eagle appears and offers to take the cat on an amazing flight—<i>around</i> the world. Suddenly we see the illusion of destination. All is journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Calabash Cat, An Amazing Journey</i> came as a result of spending several years working on <i>Traveling Man, the Journey of Ibn Batuta, 1325-1354</i>. Ibn Battuta was a true traveler, in every sense of the word. In 1325, at the age of twenty-one, he set off for Mecca from his home in Tangiers. What was to be a holy pilgrimage turned into a pilgrimage of a different sort. Ibn Battuta did not return for over thirty years, but traveled the known world through Africa and Asia, even staying for a while in the jewel of Christendom at the time, Constantinople (today’s Istanbul). When he returned he dictated his travels to a Moroccan secretary. The book that emerged was filled with all of the exaggerations you might find in a medieval book, but there was also the truth of a man who had seen and done much. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As you might gather, Ibn Battuta’s book was detailed and complicated. In order to cut it down to size for a children’s picture book, I decided to summarize whole pages, even chapters by making up what might sound like proverbs about traveling. When Ibn Battuta told about how lonely he had been on the road shortly after he had begun his journey and how overjoyed he was when a stranger took him in, I wrote: <i>Traveling—it makes you lonely then gives you a friend.</i> I followed this formula through the book. When he arrived in Jerusalem, I wanted to show his exuberance: <i>Traveling—it offers you a hundred roads to adventure, and gives your heart wings!</i> When he returned home, after years away, I wrote: <i>Traveling—it gives you a home in a thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.</i> But by far, my feeling about Ibn Battuta and his book can be summed up by this: <i>Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To me traveling and storytelling go together. Every voyage is made of the building blocks of any good story. Every voyage has a beginning, middle, and end. Perhaps this is why so many great books begin on a train or a boat or simply, when one steps out the door. You the reader know that, as mundane as locking the front door is, soon something will occur and a story will begin to unfold. All Alice had to do was follow that rabbit down the hole. The wandering sailor Ishmael found himself aboard the <i>Pequod</i>. Dorothy was carried away on a tornado. And didn’t Harry Potter’s adventures begin when he took that train from platform 9 3/4?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not all of my books deal with traveling, but many of them do. In <i>The Cloudmakers</i> (1996), the action unfolds after a grandfather and grandson set off looking for work as they wander through the western most reaches of eighth-century China. In the <i>Island-below-the-Star</i> (1998), I tell the story of Polynesian navigators who first came to the Hawaiian Islands over fifteen-hundred years ago. And recently in <i>Chee-lin, A Giraffe’s Journey</i> (2008), I relate the tale of the first giraffe to go to China in the early fifteenth century and his trip from Africa to Bengal and finally on to Beijing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In <i>Chee-lin</i>, I put forward the idea that the journey is never over. By the end of the book, Tweega, the giraffe, is old. We gather that he has died. Even so, I write:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Other’s say that he escaped from the imperial park. They mention a gate left open by a careless servant girl. But how could that be? Surely, someone would have spotted a tall-necked beast roaming the streets of Peking.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps this is another reason why stories of voyages are so compelling to writers. The stories they craft have the possibility of being open-ended, of allowing the reader to imagine the rest of the voyage and become, in a sense, part of the creative process. In <i>Traveling Man</i>, when Ibn Battuta was old and white-bearded, a child says to him: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thus, the book becomes an invitation to all to make a journey and to enjoy the road ahead . . . perhaps to be like a writer: alert and expectant, watching as each scene unfolds and comes into focus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This is how I felt as I wrote <i>Scrapbook</i>. I was on a mental train ride, looking out the window watching the scenery change, as the story of Rozelle’s incredible journey unfolded. I have heard this from other authors as well: I never know what each day may bring, what will happen to my characters, what events will transpire. This is the fun of writing. I know, I know: good writers, have to plan, but the fun of writing is the adventure or discovering what lies ahead. Is this the stuff of inspiration? Maybe.</span></div>
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<b>Introduction:</b> When Kenneth Dore’s grandmother dies, he finds on the kitchen table the scrapbook he and his sister had found in the attic several summers before. The scrapbook was intriguing and recounted the life a Rozelle G. Hodges, adventurer extraordinaire. Kenneth decides to reread the scrapbook.</div>
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<b>Chapter One:</b> Rozelle recounts her childhood and her and her brother’s fascination with Mandeville. Once she meets an Indian man who seems to corroborate Mandeville’s tale about finding the well of eternal life. Rozelle decides that she must find that well one day.</div>
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<b>Chapter Two:</b> Rozelle obtains a degree in anthropology and in 1929 sets out for Egypt to investigate a dog-headed people. There she meets Col. Lamont. The two fall in love, but he must return to England, where they plan to meet in a couple of months. Rozelle decides to take this opportunity to go to India to find the well.</div>
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<b>Chapter Three:</b> In India Rozelle goes on a wild-goose chase. Before she can do any real investigative work, the stock market crashes. She must return home.</div>
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<b>Chapter Four:</b> Col. Lamont, unable to wait for her, marries another. Dejected, Rozelle decides to go to Paraguay to search out Mandeville’s garsynts, long-necked llama-like animals. She is caught up in a war. She escapes and makes it to Brazil.</div>
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<b>Chapter Five:</b> In Brazil, she is almost lost in the Amazonian jungle looking for Mandeville’s cocodrylles. She falls in love with a Col. Lamão, but nothing comes of the affair. She returns to America and involves herself for a short time with actors and actresses in Hollywood.</div>
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<b>Chapter Six:</b> Tired of Hollywood, she decides to go to the southern Soviet Union in 1937 to look for griffins. She meets a Russian Col. Vasily Lamontov. The two fall in love, but he is sent to Kamchatka for fraternizing with an American.</div>
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<b>Chapter Seven:</b> Rozelle goes north into Siberia in search of Mandeville’s green-skinned people. She meets a Jewish family going east. She helps them enter China.</div>
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<b>Chapter Eight:</b> Rozelle goes into China to look for centaurs. She stays with a Col. Lai Man-t’e. In late 1937, she decides to go to India to look for the well again.</div>
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<b>Chapter Nine:</b> Rozelle goes to Rajasthan, where she believes the well to be. She meets up, quite by accident, with her college roommate, a German woman named Angela Mannheim, who is also a fervent Nazi.The Nazis want to find the well, too. They break into Rozelle’s hotel room and steal her notebook hoping to find clues to the well’s location.</div>
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<i style="font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">I was asked to write an essay about traveling for Paper Tigers. It is titled </i><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s Not the Destination. It’s the Journey</span></span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">. </span><i style="font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">The essay will appear after March 11, 2013. Their web address is <a href="http://papertigers.org/">papertigers.org</a>. </i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have to say that, as far as journeys are concerned, writing and illustrating <i>Scrapbook</i> has been a journey that I have enjoyed. It is also about a journey, a quest to find the fantastic animals and places John Mandeville described centuries ago. Because John Mandeville probably never even left England, but gathered travelers’ tales and turned them into a “personal” account of his voyage, his work is largely of the mind. It is a fantasy. This aspect is the intriguing part. It has allowed me to invent my own story based on his, to imagine a world of dogheads and centaurs.</span></div>
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<b>Introduction:</b> When Kenneth Dore’s grandmother dies, he finds on the kitchen table the scrapbook he and his sister had found in the attic several summers before. The scrapbook was intriguing and recounted the life a Rozelle G. Hodges, adventurer extraordinaire. Kenneth decides to reread the scrapbook.</div>
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<b>Chapter One:</b> Rozelle recounts her childhood and her and her brother’s fascination with Mandeville. Once she meets an Indian man who seems to corroborate Mandeville’s tale about finding the well of eternal life. Rozelle decides that she must find that well one day.</div>
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<b>Chapter Two:</b> Rozelle obtains a degree in anthropology and in 1929 sets out for Egypt to investigate a dog-headed people. There she meets Col. Lamont. The two fall in love, but he must return to England, where they plan to meet in a couple of months. Rozelle decides to take this opportunity to go to India to find the well.</div>
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<b>Chapter Three:</b> In India Rozelle goes on a wild-goose chase. Before she can do any real investigative work, the stock market crashes. She must return home.</div>
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<b>Chapter Four:</b> Col. Lamont, unable to wait for her, marries another. Dejected, Rozelle decides to go to Paraguay to search out Mandeville’s garsynts, long-necked llama-like animals. She is caught up in a war. She escapes and makes it to Brazil.</div>
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<b>Chapter Five:</b> In Brazil, she is almost lost in the Amazonian jungle looking for Mandeville’s cocodrylles. She falls in love with a Col. Lamão, but nothing comes of the affair. She returns to America and involves herself for a short time with actors and actresses in Hollywood.</div>
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<b>Chapter Six:</b> Tired of Hollywood, she decides to go to the southern Soviet Union in 1937 to look for griffins. She meets a Russian Col. Vasily Lamontov. The two fall in love, but he is sent to Kamchatka for fraternizing with an American.</div>
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<b>Chapter Seven:</b> Rozelle goes north into Siberia in search of Mandeville’s green-skinned people. She meets a Jewish family going east. She helps them enter China.</div>
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<b>Chapter Eight:</b> Rozelle goes into China to look for centaurs. She stays with a Col. Lai Man-t’e. In late 1937, she decides to go to India to look for the well again.</div>
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James Rumfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491384889423732489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990306379106193137.post-20277818161851267962013-02-15T10:50:00.000-08:002013-02-15T10:50:54.445-08:00CentaursHere is yet another installment for the story SCRAPBOOK, which I began on September 30, 2012. Just click on the images below to enlarge.<br />
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<br />James Rumfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491384889423732489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990306379106193137.post-7824715469204364112013-02-02T18:39:00.000-08:002013-02-02T18:39:49.193-08:00Almost 3-D<span style="font-size: large;">I have just posted another video. This one is a story, albeit a very short one: a little over two minutes long.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What I have discovered in the video world is this: a second is a long, long, long time, as unbelievable as this may sound. For instance, it only takes a second to get a character to perform a complete walk cycle even though the cycle itself is composed of ten different poses—at the very least. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not only is the length of a second a revelation to me but so is the notion of telling a story through moving pictures and words. Compared to writing and illustrating a book, making a video is like working in 3-D. Very soon it becomes very apparent where the flaws are in the story, the redundancies, the inconsistencies, and the problems with pacing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the video mentioned above "The Girl, the Old Man, and the Book," very quickly I realized that I didn't need as many words as I had originally planned. The images made the words redundant. I also didn't need as many images as I had thought. Some of them seemed to change the focus of the story I was trying to tell. Finally, to my dismay, I could see that in some places the pacing was all wrong, necessitating my redoing whole sequences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is too bad that it is so darn difficult making a video. If were not, I'd suggest every author turn his or her story into one. Instantly, glaringly, blushingly you'd see the flaws in the story. But there are ways to transform your picture book story so that you can see where it needs fixing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One way I have used is to make a 32-page book of folded paper. I then cut up the story and distribute it over the pages. (I usually use Scotch restickable glue for this. This glue is the same used in post-its and comes as a glue stick.) If the story works, it will flow from page to page. If not, you will instantly see where you have to do some repairs. And because you have used restickable glue, you can easily move the snippets of your story around until you have it just right. It is the act of transforming your story into a 3-D object that allows you to view the story with new eyes. With each turn of the page, you will see what works and what doesn't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Below is the next installment in the on-going series "Scrapbook." I began serializing this story in my September 30th, 2012 blog. Just click on the images below to enlarge.</span><br />
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<br />James Rumfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491384889423732489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990306379106193137.post-69487580196722634772013-01-19T08:30:00.000-08:002013-01-19T08:30:21.331-08:00More on Videos<span style="font-size: large;">A couple of weeks ago, I posted a video on YouTube about <i>Scrapbook</i>, the story I've been serializing on this blog. The video was my third. It showed a short clip of flying griffins. (Of course, the clip was a total fabrication on my part—as is <i>Scrapbook</i> with all of its bogus newspaper articles, faux postage stamps, and photoshoped pictures.) Here is a link to that video, if you haven't seen it:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Making videos, learning how to manipulate the programs has pretty much consumed all of my time for the past several months. I find, as I have said previously, that making videos is a lot like writing and illustrating a children's book. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are, differences, to be sure. Most notably is the frustration of working with programs that promise to be glitch-free but wind up being riddled with annoyances. Adobe Photoshop lets you make videos but puts up a few roadblocks. Without going into the jargon of video animation (I'll save this for a later post—perhaps), Photoshop makes it difficult to manipulate the timeline and the creation of frames. What is more, Photoshop requires a new layer for almost every new frame. Before long, you have a list of layers that gets quite confusing quite fast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another program, Anime Studio Pro, tries to solve some of these problems and even allows you to work in tandem with Photoshop. It is a fairly cheap program (about $150 on Amazon), but, unfortunately, you pay for what you get. The program does not always yield predictable results such as legs you've painstakingly drawn flying off into space or bulging hideously as you play back the animation. (Actually, I did laugh a lot at my own mistakes.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two other programs Toon Boom and TV Paint are both very expensive. Toon Boom doesn't offer much in the way of manipulating text, but seems to be a powerful program. TV Paint seems to be the best, but it is from France with a Gallic twist to the features its offers that makes learning the program, <i>eh bien, presque impossible!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For now, I am sticking with Photoshop. When I have learned enough about timing, drawing all of the in between poses required to animate a figure, I might consider spending the money and diving into the French world of computer animation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Below is Chapter Six of <i>Scrapbook</i>. Just click on the images to enlarge. The serializing began on the September 30th blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>James Rumfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491384889423732489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990306379106193137.post-4545625701369798602012-12-30T18:32:00.002-08:002013-01-02T11:53:29.566-08:00SerializingI was amazed to hear on NPR the other day that there is a website called Byliner, where stories are being serialized. Not just anyone can serialize a story on their site. One has to have some pub cred, an agent or two, or, at the very least, a Nobel Prize. I'm kidding, but the interesting thing is that serializing is one way of dealing with the tremendous change in the publishing industry. Dickens was mentioned on the NPR story. His books were serialized to great effect. He was paid for his episodes, as I am sure those dealing with Byline are.<br />
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As for me, I simply decided to serialize a few of my stories....not for money but for enjoyment: the enjoyment of putting together a story that I think a few people might get some kick out of.<br />
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I suppose it is the same thing with my recent foray into doing animation. On one level, I hope to attract attention to my books. On another level, I am having the time of my life seeing if I can animate a drawing or whether I can put together a video with some degree of intelligence.<br />
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Making a video is not unlike making an illustrated book. The rules, parameters, hindrances, are almost the same. One thing is different. It is a major difference: timing. In a book, timing or page-turning, is left up to the reader. (I'm thinking of picture books where a child might linger for quite some time over one picture just long enough to soak up all that there is before his or her eyes.) A video, on the other hand, demands that the creator decide just how much lingering there is to be.<br />
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Here are the links to the two videos I've posted on YouTube. More are to come.<br />
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Beo-bunny: <span style="color: #006bb9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px;"><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-ZgvevMsQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-ZgvevMsQ</a></b></span><br />
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Bookosaurus: <span style="color: #006bb9; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMiB6rJh23w">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMiB6rJh23w</a></b></span><br />
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Meanwhile, here is the fifth chapter of the serialized book <i>The Scrapbook</i>, which was begun on the blog of September 30, 2012. Just click on the images to enlarge.<br />
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<br />James Rumfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491384889423732489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990306379106193137.post-85760180854504920012012-11-25T17:02:00.000-08:002012-11-26T08:01:42.586-08:00Fired Up? Ready to Go?<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Although President Obama had told many times before the story of how early in his campaign for the presidency he met a woman who inspired him with the words “fired up” and “ready to go,” I had not heard the story until the night before the election, when the President told a crowd of Iowa supporters what had happened more than four years before.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As the President told the story, I remembered a similar story that happened to me when I was a new author. I was visiting San Francisco. My friend Doug helped me get an author signing at the downtown Borders. The only date available was Sunday at two o’clock. We showed up a half hour early. The public events manager was warm and receptive. She took us upstairs, where she had arranged a podium with a microphone — and a hundred chairs for the throngs to come. My heart sank. Who would come to hear me? The store seemed as empty as the Sunday streets outside. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Maybe we should go down to the children’s section,” I ventured, as two o’clock came and went. “Maybe there’ll be someone down there.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hesitant to admit she had over planned, the events manager nevertheless led us downstairs. The children’s section was just as deserted. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Suddenly, just like the woman who burst in on candidate Obama in that out-of-the-way meeting hall, a woman came rushing up through the aisles.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“Where is everyone? I’ve come over a hundred miles to hear you.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I was incredulous. Who would have heard of me? Who would have driven over a hundred miles to hear an unknown author?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“I don’t know. I guess I . . . .”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">There was a bit of disappointment in my voice and a fair amount of regret. But she would have none of it. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“You wait here,” she said. “I’ll round up some people.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This woman, whose name I’ve forgotten, went up and down the book aisles and snagged whomever she could. A small crowd gathered, and I told them my story and why I write children’s books.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Afterward, I gave that woman a book. I wanted to thank her. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But it would take years and the President’s story to understand fully what had happened that day. That woman in so many words had gotten me fired up and ready to go. It wasn’t the size of the crowd that mattered. It was who came. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It is the same way with books. Although a book is a publication and by definition for more than one person, I no longer think about how many people will be affected by what I write or draw. Rather I think of the one person my book is meant for. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Below is the fourth installment of <i>Scrapbook. </i><b>Click on each image to enlarge.</b> The first installment was posted in the September 30, 2012 blog.</span></div>
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James Rumfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491384889423732489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990306379106193137.post-23123158146057711872012-11-05T16:01:00.000-08:002012-11-05T16:01:45.062-08:00Lamb Plants & the Well: India 1929<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Here is the third installment for the book <i>Scrapbook</i>, which I began serializing on September 30. Just click on the images to enlarge.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>James Rumfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491384889423732489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990306379106193137.post-8772300054067264152012-10-15T08:10:00.000-07:002012-10-15T08:10:35.365-07:00Scrapbook :: Installment # 2<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Here is the second installment of the story called <i>Scrapbook</i>, which I began in my September 30th blog. Thanks to all those who wrote to say how much they liked the story and the idea of serializing a book on the internet.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The print-on-demand book is called <i>Beo-Bunny</i>. It is a spoof of Beatrix Potter’s story about Peter Rabbit. My take is that Peter goes out to fight McGregor, just as Beowulf went out to fight Grendel. After all, if McGregor and his wife ate Peter Rabbit’s father, as Beatrix Potter tells us, then like Grendel and his mother, they, too, must be ogres. The idea came to me just as I finished <i>Beowulf, A Hero’s Tale Retold</i> (Houghton Mifflin, 2007). I decided to have some fun after such a serious project. So, I painted pictures in the style of Beatrix Potter, and wrote a little story in Old English or Anglo-Saxon that was simple enough that anyone could read (but to make sure, I did provide a translation).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Here are the first few pages of the story. (To order a copy go to Amazon.com: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Beo-bunny">http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Beo-bunny</a>. The Kindle version should be ready by October 1, 2012) </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I guess that all of this just goes to show how much concentration and energy goes into writing and illustrating a book. When a particular project is over, the energy has to be released. My release is to make fun of what I had been doing.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Someday, I’ll make all of the stories available as print-on-demand books, but for now, I’ll test the waters with <i>Beo-Bunny</i>. I’m also testing out Kindle. I don’t have a Kindle myself; so I don’t know how it will look. Kindle is not my first choice, but it is rather easy to do. With CreateSpace, where I did my print-on-demand book, they make converting a paper-edition into a digital edition a simple task. Reading through all of the contractual terms, the pricing modes, royalties, etc, was a bit of a chore, but, in the end, I decided that, since I could cancel at any time, why not give Kindle a try? I figure, too, that at $2.99 a copy, no one loses. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I did have a fleeting thought, as I was clicking off boxes in my Kindle application: all of the rules and regulations do not augur well for the artist/author/creator. Right now, royalties are great, but I have a feeling that such fantastic deals will not last long. Before we creators know it, we’ll be right back where we were last century with a 10% royalty, if we are lucky. I really do believe that the bean-counters, the Romney entrepreneurs of this world, will do their damnedest to stuff the genie back into the bottle. Here is one example: for Kindle, under certain circumstances, you have to pay to have your book digitally delivered. The price is per megabyte. This “freight charge” seems to me to be just the first step in making sure those guys get most of the money.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>Now on to something new—serialized books.</b> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Why not? Besides the occasional blog entry about some aspect of children’s book writing and illustrating, I thought it would be fun to post some of the books I have written. Why not let people enjoy them? After all, I have more stories in my drawer than I’ll ever get published or want to publish for money. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The first book I have chosen is a long one called <i>Scrapbook.</i> <i>Scrapbook</i> lies somewhere between a graphic novel and and word novel. As with a graphic novel, I am asking the reader to piece together the story from elements other than a traditional paragraph-on-paragraph story. But, instead of images, I am presenting artifacts: letters, postcards, clippings—the kinds of odds and ends found in a scrapbook that tell the story of a person’s life. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The story centers around Rozelle G. Hodges, an Indiana Jane, if you will, who went in search of the fantastic beasts, peoples, and plants described in John Mandeville’s medieval best seller, a travel book describing the known world (See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mandeville). Framing the story of Rozelle G. Hodges is that of Kenneth Dore, an eighteen year old who has just lost his parents and his grandmother. How the lives of Dore and Hodges are interwoven is the pith of this story, and I hope that it will be as much fun for you to read as it was for me to write and illustrate.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My plan is to post a portion of this story every few weeks. Happy reading . . . and let me know what you think. I also hope that the format below is legible. [Click on each image to enlarge.]</span></div>
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James Rumfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491384889423732489noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990306379106193137.post-66779780407763893202012-09-06T13:20:00.001-07:002012-09-06T16:09:26.361-07:00But Didn’t Gutenberg Have a Beard?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-_0Q3Z6NFl31_XJnHU5U3ldOfLVuTQwtY-VWi3vR5ux-HTNduBMVg2IjcWc2yNt9OdiaQPJAw3zp67d3BI1HeqZZDny4DNqvh7mgN4tvageptzxjZqNd5yDHHZwdd3wYslcompQErjH0/s1600/beard+fake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-_0Q3Z6NFl31_XJnHU5U3ldOfLVuTQwtY-VWi3vR5ux-HTNduBMVg2IjcWc2yNt9OdiaQPJAw3zp67d3BI1HeqZZDny4DNqvh7mgN4tvageptzxjZqNd5yDHHZwdd3wYslcompQErjH0/s320/beard+fake.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sound business advice seems to be: give’em what they want and you’ll make money. This is sound advice in publishing as well. Print books people want to read and they’ll buy them. But along these same lines runs a pernicious argument—if arguments can be pernicious: write what people expect to read and you’ll sell books. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If a book contains information that runs counter to what people think they know, the book runs the risk of being rejected, if not scorned. This doesn’t happen so much with books for adults. The author uses his skill to craft arguments to overcome the reading public’s resistance. But in children’s books, especially picture books, there isn’t room, time, or the logical tools at hand to change people’s minds. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Besides children’s books aren’t at the forefront of human knowledge. They are not supposed to present new ideas or theories. They’re supposed to be pre-chewed adult ideas that a child can easily digest. They’re supposed to be a simple version of what an adult already knows so that the adult will have little trouble fending off the “why’s” of little readers. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If a children’s book runs against the common flow of knowledge, the book becomes suspect and the author’s integrity is questioned. Sure, there are things in children’s books that need to be questioned. There are even mistakes, as there are in all books. Sometimes these mistakes are accidental; sometimes they are due to laziness on the part of editors. All are regrettable. But I am not talking about questioning as a part of <i>healthy</i> reading. No, I am talking about <i>not</i> questioning, of dismissing the book because it seems to run counter to what the adult reader thinks he or she knows.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I remember with my book about Champollion’s decipherment of Ancient Egyptian,<i> Seeker of Knowledge</i>, a museum shop refused to carry the book because the hieroglyph for elephant looked too much like an Indian elephant than it did an African one. Turns out that North Africa had its own species of elephant at the time and what is more, it is reported that one of the pharaohs had purchased elephants from India! <i>Seeker of Knowledge </i>also raised eyebrows because it did not present the story in the usual fashion. Common knowledge is that Champollion used the Rosetta stone to decipher Egyptian. While this is true, it is only partially true. It always bothered me, when I was a kid that the books I read stopped after they explained how Champollion decoded some of the letters of the Egyptian alphabet. What I wanted to know was: <i>how did he decode all of the pictures?</i> My book was a start, an attempt at answering that question for the little Jimmy Rumford’s of this world.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Besides, who wants to rehash old information and pre-chew it for kids? Why not present new ideas, new angles, perhaps new research? Why not make Beowulf [<i>Beowulf, a Hero’s Tale Retold</i>] look like the enfeebled, battle-scarred, unhero-like septuagenarian that he was ? </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Why not tie in the myth of Cadmus [<i>There’s a Monster in the Alphabet</i>] with the way our letters are ordered in our alphabet ? Why not say in my <i>Island-below-the-Star </i>and<i> Dog-of-the-Sea-Waves</i>, that Polynesians loved, above all else, to explore their ocean world instead of reinforcing the James Michener myth of fleeing Tahiti like pilgrims fleeing England for America ? Why not make Gutenberg clean-shaven, even though all the books I have ever seen show him with a full Mosaic beard?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Just a few days ago, I finished a project that had consumed me these past three months. At the end of April I realized that I had a lot more to say about Johannes Gutenberg and bookmaking in the fifteenth century than I could ever say in my children’s book, <i>From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World</i>, which is due out September 18 of this year. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">At first I thought that I’d write a curriculum guide for the children’s book. But a week or so into it, I realized that my ‘guide’ was going to be much more than that. Instead of a curriculum guide it blossomed into a companion guide as ten pages became twenty then eighty then one hundred fifty. This wasn’t going to be a book for teachers. It was for anyone, twelve years old and up who wanted to find out what we do know about Gutenberg’s life and the details of making late medieval books. I began sketching out in my head the chapters I would write and the diagrams I would have to draw. The result: 12 chapters and 150 drawings and diagrams that would cover paper making, tanning leather, ink making, type casting, press building, typesetting, printing, illumination, and bookbinding.</span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To find out more click <a href="http://www.jamesrumford.com/jamesrumford.com/FTGM_Guide.html">here</a>. To read the last chapter in the companion guide, click <a href="http://www.jamesrumford.com/jamesrumford.com/Guide_Chapter.html">here</a>.</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I decided early on to make this a print-on-demand book in black and white and use CreateSpace.com to make this happen. As I write this, the book is in the proofing stage, and when the proof arrives this week, I’ll have the ‘fun’ of circling in red the many, many mistakes not just in the text but the captions to the diagrams as well as the six-page index.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Now that the work is largely done, I have a moment to reflect about why I wrote this companion guide. Did I think that the children’s book was deficient? No. Did I think that the children’s book was too difficult for today’s readers? Maybe. Did I think that, if I were reading <i>From the Good Mountain</i>, I’d want to know more? Most definitely. And it is this that I want to emphasize here in this blog: the function of a book is too excite the reader’s interest. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I sometimes get the feeling, especially with <i>some</i> librarians and teachers that they want books that will not raise questions but answer them, especially for little Johnny, who needs to get his report done, or little Suzy, who is forced to read about something for which she has little interest. Books to these educators are pills. If they can only find the right one to stop the kids from asking questions.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I, like most of the authors that I know, seek to write books for kids with questions. We want them to look elsewhere. Our books are not the end of the line; they’re maps leading to destinations unimaginable. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I suppose that in times past—way past—when there were fewer books, a book had to be as complete as possible. But this is no longer true today. Hooked up with the internet a book becomes borderless, infinite. If a book doesn’t lead a child to the internet, in my view, that book has failed. If teachers or parents haven’t taught the child that the internet is more than games and facebook and who-knows-what-else, than they have failed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A reviewer recently wrote that he or she thought that <i>From the Good Mountain</i> was weak because it didn’t have a glossary and that the list of key words that I put at the end of the book specifically for the reader to find out more on the internet was “frail.” How old was this reviewer? Obviously old enough to be behind the times. With e-books, there is no need for lexile analyses. If the kid doesn’t know the word, the ipad or the kindle will look it up for him, even pronounce it for him. If the kid can’t picture what’s being written, one tap will carry him to Wikipedia or the internet. How then can one book be considered deficient or frail or weak? If the book is half way decent, it becomes truly a portal to the world.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In the old days, teachers and librarians used to use such metaphors: portals, gateways, road maps, because that is what they wanted every child to believe. Some children did; most didn’t because to make portals happen before the internet meant going to the library and hauling home a ton of books and becoming the most feared of creatures: the nerd. Today, truly, as I said, books are opening doors unimaginable. Instead of the keys being at the local branch library, they are right in the child’s hand.</span></div>
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<br /></div>James Rumfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491384889423732489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990306379106193137.post-14409289389819625792012-03-30T14:14:00.000-07:002012-03-30T14:14:30.875-07:00Some Do Do's<div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I can’t believe I am posting another blog so soon. Up to now, my blogs have come out rather sporadically. But tomorrow morning early, I will be giving a talk in a break-out session at the 2012 Biennial Writers’ Conference presented by the National League of American Pen Women (Honolulu Branch). </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Part of my talk will center on what I posted earlier today, but another part will be to discuss a few simple rules for those considering self-publishing. These rules don’t have so much to do with how to write or illustrate a children’s book. Rather, they have everything to do with layout and design. After all, if you are going to self-publish, make the book look as professional as you can. People will judge your book by its cover, the type you use and the layout . . . then they’ll get to your beautifully crafted story.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4 Trim your story to as few words as possible.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Picture books work because the pictures tell the story as much as the words do. If the book looks word heavy in the layout, it is probably not well-edited. Let the art do the heavy lifting.</span></i></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5 Make your story look as though it were written in free-verse.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">My feeling is that a picture book is a poem. I don’t mean a poem that rhymes, but a poem in the sense that it is a slice of life, a poetic look at some one, some thing, some event. If you think that way, your book will have few words and the pictures will do the work of telling the story. And, if you break up the text so that it looks like a poem, you are inviting the reader to treat your work as poetry.</span></i></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6 Consider the sound of the words.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This has nothing to do with layout--at least in printed books, but in digital books, where a voice can be recorded, this is extremely important.</span></i></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">7 Use difficult words.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Again, like #6, this has little to do with layout, but in the digital world, where the reader can tap a word and the definition comes up instantly, it makes no sense whatsoever to limit the vocabulary. In the past, teachers and educators put a stranglehold on books. Each book had to meet a grade-level standard. No more is that the case, as far as I am concerned. A first grader can tap on the word and find out what it means, hear how it is pronounced just as easily as anyone else. What’s so hard about that—unless you enjoy dumbing everything down.</span></i></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">8 Make sure everything is accurate and fully researched.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In the digital world, not only can a reader tap on the word to find out what it means, but the reader can search the word or group of words on the internet….instantly. If your facts are wrong, even the first grader will know it. If not the first grader, the teacher or the parent.</span></i></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">9 Make everything consistent: words, colors used, layout.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Take a good look at books by Chris Van Allsburg and William Joyce. They both have a brilliant sense of color, and, their designers were meticulous, insuring that their books hung together as a whole. This point number 9 is a summary of all I have said above.</span></i></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">10 Go to the library and check out as many different looking books as possible.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Finally, take a look at these books. Match each one with the points I have made above. Some will match up; others will not. Make a note of the variations.</span></i></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1 Be generous with margins and consider the following rules when laying out a page.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The standard POD chapter book measures 8 inches tall by 5 inches wide. Use these margins.</span></i></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i></i></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Why be generous? Because a few pages added to a POD book don’t add to the cost, and for a iBook, page-count doesn’t matter at all.</span></i></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2 Be generous with the leading (the space between the lines).</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I would say that 14 point type with 18 point leading would be fine for a children’s picture book. Remember that in an iBook the point size is irrelevant. The reader can change type size to fit his or her own needs.</span></i></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3 Indent the first line of the paragraph as much as the width of the capital W of the font you are using. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If you make the indentation too wide, you will throw everything off balance and make reading difficult.</span></i></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4 Start the first paragraph of each chapter about a third of the way down the page.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5 Make a classical title page such as this with everything center-justified</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i></i></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In 1818, this title page was made about the typography of Giambattista Bodoni [1740-1813]. Why not copy its simplicity? </span></i></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6 Get someone to check grammars, speling; and punctuation</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I know you know about this, but the problem is with books, long ones, there are bound to be mistakes. Proof reading and editing is a must. Spell checking programs can’t distinguish between there, their, and they’re, for example; so read everything over and get a proof-reader. As far as the grammar is concerned, you must find someone who is qualified to make judgements about the way you write.</span></i></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">7 Check and double-check the facts in your book.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is just good practice, but, in the case of ebooks, absolutely a must. The reader can instantly check up on you by searching the words or phrases in your book on the web.</span></i></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">8 Justify the entire text.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ragged edges make for a ragged look and feel. Paragraphs, if short, won’t look like paragraphs.</span></i></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">9 Choose two fonts only: one for the titles of the chapters and the title page, and one for the text of the book. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Be conservative. If you choose a font that is too wild or quirky, the book will be difficult to read. Choose a classical font: Garamont, Caslon, or Palatino. Stay away from Times. It is overused. The choice of font is irrelevant for ebooks. The reader gets to choose the font.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">10 Make everything simple—even the cover.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> What Bodoni did with the title page, you could do with the cover. You don’t always need an image. I would rather see a well designed cover without an image than one with a poorly drawn image that is as confusing as it is amaturish. Book covers are important, but don’t be scared. Simple ones can be powerful. Here is a book cover for a recent book [The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon]. It is very much in the style of Bodoni.</span></i></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And one last word of advice: Be innovative—with your </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">next</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> book.</span></div>James Rumfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491384889423732489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5990306379106193137.post-26483967762286723152012-03-30T12:37:00.000-07:002012-03-30T12:37:21.700-07:00The eBook Tango<div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzA1LKq9QGJzw9xbfGN_KtzMaQq5kfW6ScpDFq_hFzJZTVwiME1SiDSG1qpTYqRHH3-gGGGdZhmcYMVmBMj8qwe4ttsYv4DDJpLnj8c7BjRd5anbxwowS08kTBIr5U7qDePIC1h_3j_iQ/s1600/Picture+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzA1LKq9QGJzw9xbfGN_KtzMaQq5kfW6ScpDFq_hFzJZTVwiME1SiDSG1qpTYqRHH3-gGGGdZhmcYMVmBMj8qwe4ttsYv4DDJpLnj8c7BjRd5anbxwowS08kTBIr5U7qDePIC1h_3j_iQ/s320/Picture+1.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">A logo I have designed for the Children’s Literature Hawai‘i Conference this coming June, </span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">in which I’ll talk about my tango with ebooks and PODs</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">By now I had hoped to have several print-on-demand books [POD’s] available on Amazon and an equal number sitting on the digital bookshelves of the Apple bookstore, but I do not. Not yet, anyway.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It turns out that POD’s don’t quite measure up to my standards of what a children’s picture book should look like and ebooks are just too darn hard to make.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">First POD’s. These are quite simple to make. By this, I mean, once you have done the writing and the illustrating and the book designing, it is but a tap of a button, if you are using Adobe InDesign, to turn what you have created into a press-ready PDF and send it off to either CreateSpace [ <a href="https://www.createspace.com/">https://www.createspace.com</a>]or Lightning Source [<a href="https://www1.lightningsource.com:443/">https://www1.lightningsource.com:443</a>]. Within minutes, or so it seems, either company will send you a paper proof of the book, and, depending on how much you want to pay for shipping, you will see your proof in a matter of days. It is simple and cheap. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">CreateSpace charges about $10. LightningSource: $75. Unfortunately, the results are pretty dismal for both. They both use the same presses. The colors are not always bright. CreateSpace uses cheap, thin paper, and both companies won’t let you put any words on the spine, which seems ridiculous to me. How will a person find the book on a home bookshelf let alone at a public library?</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The results for chapter books are more encouraging. In fact, the whole POD way of making books is actually geared for making books with lots of words. Because that is the case, and because the technology just doesn’t meet my standards, I’ve put my dozen or so books with CreateSpace on hold, believing that things will get better rather soon. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In the meantime, I have turned to making electronic books. I have looked at Kindle and Nook and iBooks. Only iBooks shows real possibilities for me as a picture book maker. The colors are bright. There is more functionality, because after all, the iPad, on which you have to view the iBook, is a mini-computer, while Kindle and Nook are simply screens for viewing static pdfs. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; font-size: large;">iBooks does have a catch, however: it is pretty difficult to turn a book you have created into an epub document. An epub uses html coding and makes a mini-web page out of your book. It is the coding that is difficult. Adobe InDesign will turn your book into an epub document in the blink of an eye, but the results aren’t always what you might expect. Pictures show up in odd places in the iBook. Sentences can end up anywhere. This is because iBooks are not really made for picture books….unless you understand the present functioning epub formatting. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It turns out that there are two kinds of iBooks. One in which the text and pictures flow as you turn the digital pages. The other is one in which the formatting is fixed. It is the fixed formatting that you must have to make a picture book work; otherwise, pictures and text get separated in weird ways after they have gone through the epub meat grinder.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</b></span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">You have several options at this point. You can learn html coding and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and all of the other necessary codes to turn your book into an epub. You can hire someone like Telemachus Press ( <a href="http://telemachuspress.com/">http://telemachuspress.com</a> ) to do this for you for a small bag of money. Or you can use some of the software out there which claim to be able to turn your book into an epub. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The best software I have found—and one of the cheapest—is a little app for the iPad called Book Creator [<a href="http://www.redjumper.net/bookcreator">http://www.redjumper.net/bookcreator</a>]. It is only $5. With it, you can design pages, put text on top of pictures, and do a fair amount of things before the little thing runs out of steam. For example, you can’t use italics and roman in the same sentence. You can’t put pictures on top of pictures and you are stuck with only three different book sizes: square, portrait, and landscape. Still, you can do a lot. Check it out at the website mentioned. There’s a simple video to watch. After you see the video, you’ll have a million ideas of your own. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The one nice thing about Book Creator is that it is DRM-free. DRM means ‘digital rights management.’ I don’t pretend to understand all of the legal ramifications of DRM, but I understand that if you use software that is not DRM-free, you may run into problems down the road. You may not be able to sell your books in all of the venus you would like. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">iBooks and iTunes have come out with iAuthor</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> [<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iauthor/id439057242?mt=8">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iauthor/id439057242?mt=8</a>]. </span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is really cheap software, but it is not DRM-free. If you create something with iAuthor, you can only sell what you create as an iBook. Apple is not the only one doing this. Many companies that claim to help you out have DRM clauses. Unless you are a lawyer, I’d be wary of giving any of my rights away.</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 17.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 14.0px 'Adobe Garamond Pro'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Even so, in order to sell books for the iPad, you have to sign an agreement. I signed the agreement which contained some pretty scary stuff about rights. Why? Because either party can break the agreement with a 30-day written notice. I figured that was fair. After all, when I sell through iBooks, I come away with a 70% share. See if a legacy publisher will give you that much. And with a legacy publisher you sign everything away.</span></div>James Rumfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491384889423732489noreply@blogger.com0