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Yesterday—March 1—was the day of the launch. It was a  sunny but slushy and cold Sunday and the launch was set for 1pm in the bookstore--the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division—at the LGBT  Community Services Center on West 13 th  St. It is now the spiffiest building imaginable, jammed with people and filled with facilities like a hug library, etc. Opportunities are so much greater for those coming out now yet so muchriskier too in this acrimonious times—especially for

It’s 72 hours til I’m off to New York. A blizzard is forecast on the East Coast, and 85 is forecast for the Palm Springs Airport for Thursday, my departure day. Tom (West, publisher of Amarna Books and Media and collaborator extraordinaire ) and I just postponed speaking today, since he has other clients with book-related-priorities. (Imagine that!) Yes, we’re still working (hard) on both the book and my new web site!  It’s a sprint to the March 1 launch next week.

I have a retired friend who wrote an illustrated history/memoir of his family, for his family, called A Son of the Queen City. (Cincinnati is the Queen City.) He broke even on his budget of a few thousand dollars (which excluded his labor.) The ease and relatively low price of such a project is a boon not just for retirees but surely the wave of the future for all of us. It’s akin to the existence of the iPhone camera making all of us photographers. Like AI makes all of us “a

where I volunteer. (Actually "AIDS has been removed from its name, as its mission has evolved.) I'm pictured in one of the 4 branch, Revival stores, a, resale place to "relove the pre-loved," thatt generates mega $. . It's called Revivals--a 4 outlet store and cash maker extraordinaire (Actually "AIDS has been removed from its name, as its mission has evolved.) I'm pictured in one of the 4 branch, Revival stores, a

Print-on-demand production makes so many aspects of traditional book publishing out-of-date, for both good and bad. Print-on-demand largely leaves production like its always been—that is, focused on traditional, labor-intensive processes. Numerous proofs are required—but probably with shorter turn-around times. Similarly, labor-intensive refining of the index remains, in the case of my book. The typical minimum single-year-long+ schedule for producing an art book encompasses