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Smacks of Ashely – Ichabod Hate/Wife

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Here is, friends, the only thing written by Wife that ever got laid down. Not even by the full family, but by Doug Milliken as Ichabod Hate on his new album Rat Park out on Father Time Records. This is the video he put together for our song, Smacks of Ashely. Mike always wondered what that meant. There were vocals, but god knows what they were.

Also recently in the world of Doug: one of his other projects with another pal o’ mine Erich Schwann, the Yòü-Tü, just put out a brilliantly good and beautiful new album, Send Off Smoke. We’ve also just recently put up a bit of interactive planar fiction by Doug over at NaDA. Ben Nigra 1982 which can be read and folded online. It’s an experimental work in an experimental format. Check it out. Check Doug out. He’s been busy this Winter.

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NaDA, now with Blarg

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

NaDA has a blarg now. Look here for updates, announcement, writing contests, bit and bouts of original fiction, non-fiction, fits and thoughts. Should serve to break up my personality a bit, keep things compartmentalized, and clean this town up a bit. And please check out our, their ongoing fundraiser, and recently launched eBook division.

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Didn’t Die Young Yet ePub

Saturday, December 11th, 2010

You know, for Kindles

After week(s) of research and nearly as much real time hacking together a conversion, Didn’t Die Young Yet by Jacob Cholak is available for $3 on Amazon as an eBook.

eBook formatting is much more akin to website development than anything approaching or resembling design. I happen to know quite a bit about web development, and I was also horrified to see what any of the “pdf to ePub” or even “html to ePub” converters did to my beautiful little book, so I had to start from just about scratch and format that damn thing properly by hand. This involved a lot of mindless and blinding precision copy and pasting, liberal use of search and replace and the delete button. I had to write a number of scripts (shell and javascript) to expedite the tedium. I will probably write some set of tools that will make the translation of our other book, White Horses much smoother.

The interesting thing I found in my research into eBooks is that no-one really cares about them yet. The designers haven’t latched onto them because they’re still a fairly “ugly” format that lacks most of the control you get with the much more standardized and documented web. And on the other side, the programmers haven’t jumped in to flesh out those controls and standards, because it’s still books, which everyone knows is for the grandparents of extinct dinosaurs. This means that the whole format is in an exciting state where it’s still unpolished and developing. Commercially the medium is growing by leaps and bounds (we’ve all seen the charts), but, strangely for the internet, the technology is lagging behind just a touch. This is exciting news for someone both obsessed with books and internet technology. A fertile but unplowed ground to combine two fetishes.

So the (e)Book is up and there’s another one coming. Also if you’re a sucker for paper, the real thing is still on sale too: Didn’t Die Young Yet and NaDA has the fundraiser going on for the rest of the month. Please support our thankless labors.

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Didn’t Die Young Yet Out Now

Friday, November 5th, 2010

Didn’t Die Young Yet: Stories for Strangers
A churlish collection of 36 commissioned stories for friends and strangers written over the course of 6 months by one man/mind: Jacob Cholak. Featuring: dads, forgetting, Usenet, time traveling video games, artistic robots, bus rides, violence, teeth, wandering, predictions, decline, Steve Jobs, and many other things.

order:

$12 from NaDA Publishing

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Ichabod Hate

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Ole’ Douggy-kins wants your money bad. I gave him some of mine, so as to lessen the burden on all of you, but here he is, knocking down your door. This is his band that makes your teeth smell like wasps and your ears read. So go ahead and dig.

Support Ichabod Hate’s Kickstarter

Also, if you’re feeling quieter these days, check out Douggy’s masterpiece, White Horses out by my very own, NaDA Publishing

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Soon Didn’t Die Young Yet

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

…November 5…

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White Horses Elsewhere

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Doug and White Horses got plugged and interviewed the other day for a site called Thoughts in Progress. Read to exist. Also worth noting that White Horses is 15% off until August 13th if you enter the code: BEACHREAD305 at checkout. That is all. Here is the interview

“I think WHITE HORSES was my attempt to create something that might possibly make all these bad things better. Like I could weave a safety net out of words. Like I might be able to save what little I still had. I think all these desperate factors together created a sort of poetry.” -Doug

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White Horses Exists

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

You may now begin to normally purchase copies of White Horses by Douglas W. Milliken at the very regular price of $12. OR you can go check it out from the Portland Room of the Portland Public Library if you are opposed to the concept of ownership.

Order White Horses by Douglas W. Milliken

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Last Day to Pre-Order White Horses

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Only 24 hours left to pre-order White Horses by Douglas W Milliken from NaDA. Order today and get it for cheaper AND better (personally stamped, signed, written, and drawn). After tomorrow it will be available for the regular $12 from Lulu.

Pre-Order White Horses. I should also mention that it is the author’s (pictured above) birthday today.

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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

(NOTE: That white dot smaller than the “.” represents the Big Six)
This image I drew up yesterday is not accurate, but illustrative. It’s based on cobbled old data from a number of different sources, but the generality of the image hold that a very small percentage of the companies in the industry (between 6 and 10) rake in 90% of the profits. The small publishers, which make up 99% of the bulk are left with about half of that remaining 10%.

Sources-ish:
Google
Publishers Weekly
Books Ahead

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