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Books

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    Books based on pre-made covers

    Book Graphics offers pre-made paperback covers for your self-publishing effort. We’ve turned some of these covers into books.

    Harasha Dule

    Never Look Back

    Four-year-old nudist Nicholas Barbum had it all — the job, the house, the girl — but was still missing one thing, happiness. He’d spent most of his life on the move, running since he’d gotten his legs under him some three years earlier. Maybe it was time to slow down, or at least that’s what his therapist told him. One cloudy July morning, Nicholas told his therapist to go fuck herself and set off on a journey that would change his life.

    Read more. »

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    It Never Rained in the Bronx

    You know that crazy uncle who tells weird, rambling tales and says, “I’ve got so many stories from those days I could fill a book”? What if he went ahead and made it happen?

    While watching the LA Kings playoff game I discovered one of those jarring, incoherent, often local ads with zero production value that you see during big sporting events. It was an ad for a book called It Never Rained in the Bronx by Steven Chanzes. I was mystified by the ad, because unless you’re a Grisham or a Baldacci, books aren’t advertised on TV, especially not during playoff games.

    I went to the site and OMG it’s just the most wonderful thing. It’s this old Jewish guy living in Florida runs a blog (inexplicably archived in a series of individual PDFs) where he writes about everything from how his stomach flu ruined his cruise vacation to his quest to find a publisher. He signs all his “Blogs” with “Happy Writing.” It’s all there to promote his book.

    Watch the ad and read the rest of the story. »

  3. Blog to Book Review: 11 Points Guide to Hooking Up

    Blogs-to-books aren’t a well-respected genre. As the editor of Twitter Wit, which was simply a collection of funny Twitter messages, I was accused of killing American literature. (Spoiler: nope.) And the proliferation of picture books makes people assume every blog-to-book is made for people who hate to read.

    Sam Greenspan’s 11 Points Guide to Hooking Up, a set of 11-item lists about sex and dating by the founder of 11Points.com, is actually funny, not in the “oh heh that was a joke” sort of way, but a respectably witty sort of way. And that’s not something to take for granted in this field.

    What it is and what it isn’t. »

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    11 Ragetoon Editions of Classic Kids’ Books

    Some forms of entertainment are superior to others. For example, kids’ books are the best books, because they have pictures of expressive characters.

    They’re kind of like ragetoons.

    So we took eleven classic children’s books and turned them into ragetoons, including Amelia Bedelia, The Cat in the Hat and Strega Nona.

    Read them, they’re more canonical than the CGI movie versions. »

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    Obama Audiobooks Chopped Into Entirely New Story: ‘Son of Strelka, Son of God’

    For the past four years, I’ve been working slowly but obsessively on a very odd project. Bit by bit I’ve dissected Obama’s self-read autobiography into thousands of very short phrases, usually one to ten words or so, and have used these snippets to tell a completely different story from the original. I’ve then set the story to music. The story is called Son Of Strelka, Son Of God. Broadly speaking, it tells the story of an ugly dog-faced demigod who recreates the world after it is destroyed.

    — Dan “Mofolotopo” Warren, Something Awful Forums

    And it’s a fricking cartoon.

    Let’s watch it! »

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