The book is coming along nicely.

I'm not a big fan of talking about unfinished projects in public. It seems to be one of the best ways of making sure such projects crash and burn in humiliating and infuriating ways. However, I'll trust in the gods of fate and post a little status update.

We've received articles from 15 authors, covering 10 countries (if I'm not mistaken). The articles are at the proofreading stage. We've produced a dummy version of the book to test print quality and process, and everything seems to be in order. So we're pretty happy. "Relaxed" would be the wrong word, though.

The book will be around 220 pages, with some color inserts. We're still not entirely sure of the title. But we do have a cover image that we love.

If everything goes well (fingers crossed), you'll be able to read the book online two weeks before Knutepunkt. We're very interested to see how that will work out; traditionally, nobody has the time to actually read the book during KP, so it's not something that gets much attention during the festival itself. We hope that making the book available a little earlier will encourage people to read it at their leisure, as a preparation for and build-up to Knutepunkt 2009.

Any questions regarding the book should be sent to knutebok09 [at] yahoogroups [dot] com.

Final proofreading

Submitted by Matthijs on Sat, 03/28/2009 - 11:21.

We're now in the final proofreading phase. This is the part where the book design is more-or-less finished (though as anyone who's worked with books knows, nothing is finished until it has been physically printed). I'm reading through the entire thing again, start to finish, nitpicking, nitpicking, nitpicking. It's strange how you get much more critical - and perceptive - once something looks like an actual book, not just a Word document.

I'm reading it just like I've read earlier KP books - sometimes marveling at the different voices and new perspectives, sometimes shaking my head at things the editors (yeah, that's me) have missed. I find myself becoming more and more forgiving towards past years' editors. Hope we're able to catch all the little mistakes in time - but I know that when I get the finished, printed version in my hands, the first page I look at will have some glaringly obvious error.

On April 1, this book goes to the printer. Shortly after that, the articles go online - one by one, so people have the time to read and digest.

Release party on April 15!

Cool!

Submitted by Derwalt on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 18:06.

This is a great idea! I hope I'll have time to skim the book before the event. This opens up for so many more possibilities for discussions and seeking out the authors, asking questions and so on. Really great idea!

/ Jonas Hedegaard - daft as a mule for 30 years and counting...