New Book… Part 1

New book, for a new life, well the book is not going to make me retire early, if anything I’ve just increased my workload…

Soft Launch…

So, what is it and when is the launch, well the launch date is a bit flat, as it is already out there… But when i have more than the pre-print copies, IE the first batch, then it will be officially launched, maybe on the first of May, which seems a good date, i wanted 2-3-4 as the original date, but we are just going past that with the first delivery… (- for those who don’t know 2-3-4 actually stands for 23rd April, which is St. Georges Day, whos the Patron Saint of England -)

So what does it look like… Well, the first thing is it is not a pocket version, despite part of the title being Field Diary, as it is an A4 size, with a gloss front & rear cover, and a clear Acetate Sheet, giving the front & back covers some protection from sticky fingers, on the pre-proof book, it has a grey cover with a book-entry at the bottom of the page, in my infinite wisdom i thought Book would look and sound better, well it sounds better in your head when looking for reference numbers, but it looks terrible & naff, so that has changed back to volume, the grey front cover & rear cover is now coloured green, with the wording complementing the whole covers with a darker shade of green…

Just to clarify, the original front & back cover of the single-page Artefact Journal & Field Diary, was Orange, but as this new book is now, a double-page entry, we decided on the new colour, as this book has expanded, & been updated, with new internals, whilst the old single version is being transformed into the new format, & when released it will retain its Orange colour, as will the single A4 Folder Version, which the last few remaining pages have all but gone…

Instead of binding this book as “perfect bound” which means that it has a glued spine which is then covered in paper, which seems to be the chosen route everyone else goes down, i have chosen to bind my book in “coil bound” which allows the book to be laid flat, & as this is a workbook it does seem logical to have chosen this route… If you have ever tried writing in a book that wants to keep rising in the middle the first thing you do is break its spine, this, in turn, breaks the glue binding it all together, and soon it will start to lose its shape, and later the pages start to move & as you shuffle them back in place you are weakening them further, & before long they start to fall out, so by choosing a coil bound book, it should be able to withstand a lot more abuse than a book bound with glue, we have chosen to use a wiro-coil, which is a metal coil instead of plastic or a single sping-wire, although in the future we might use plastic as a chosen binding for later books, for the foreseeable future though we will be using a wiro-coils…

i have copyrighted this work from start to finish, with most of the content being started over fifty years ago, but, now this is the big but, no one has come anywhere close to my method, perhaps because it is so simple, that people try to overthink the obvious whereas this starts and ends at the obvious… it has been called a system by those that are using it, but there is no system to it, you can use as much or as little of the book as you want, but by utilizing the complete content, within a month of use, if you have been going out once a week, already a picture of the jigsaw would already have become apparent…

We chose a well-known copyright company, for Authors, and Artesans alike, who reassured us, and keep doing so that our work is protected worldwide, I’ve had so many of my ideas taken from me and people have exploited the ideas, & me, mainly its because i have had lack of funds, but this one, I’ve tried my best to keep it a well-known secret, it has been protected since the 1970s, without me knowing it, but now legally i have the law on my side, ok it costs a yearly subscription but hey nothing is free…