[update as of June 2024: I am keeping the post below as it is for the historical value. Autobiography of a Book is currently available from Itasca Books, a book distributor in Minneapolis MN, which has taken on AC Books.]
You can now preorder Autobiography of a Book from Small Press Distribution.
[update as of April, 2024: Small Press Distribution has gone out of business. At present there is no distributor for AC Books. As soon as it is possible to order Autobiography of a Book I will tell you all about it.]
Though the “publication date” at the SPD page says 10/31/23, my publisher tells me the book will probably ship in February. (The AC Books website doesn’t yet have a page for it.)
I encourage you to visit SPD and click on the “peek inside” button. I had input on design, but the white print on black paper was publisher Holly Crawford’s idea. The white print continues through the first half of the book, while the black of the pages gradually lightens to a dark gray. At the midpoint the print switches from white to black, the paper continuing its shift to white. With book in hand you can animate the transformation, the shade shift as fast or as slow as the reader drags a thumb along the outer edges of the pages.
“When does life begin?” Book asks.
Book’s life begins with a reader. Readers bring Book to life. And Book is grateful for the life each reader gives it.
Chapters from Autobiography of a Book were published in a variety of places. If you would roam through the excerpts, get a taste of what the whole will be like, I have rounded up links in a blog post:
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