Sunnyside's
Lousy Book
Burning Down the House
Sunnyside
Sunnyside originated as:
Good Things
a 16 page supplement to the
Lousy Book.
It was a selected group of journal entries covering different topics. I kind of smoothed them out a bit and it was something for me to work on between the 7 or 8 rewrites my main book has had over the years.
Stalking Buffy
Stalking Buffy is a result of what I thought was a publicity stunt. It's a bunch of love letters and a few Buffy and Angle Scripts I tried my talent on. (but believe me when I say that I'm not a script writer because I' just don't posses the creativity for fiction. It was never created to become a book but the collection of documents
complied to enough to produce 160 page
book with about 50,000 words. I don't see why someone would want such a thing unless you were into script writing and the creativity of Joss Wheton There might be some things that Buffy fans might want to read. When I discovered that I had received a criminal record because of the literature that was never intended to leave my computer, I began typesetting to see what I had.
Another thing:
I've always supplied a serial number to each book and kept a log on each print run because I knew a long time ago that it was the only way to safe guard the authantisity of mybooks.
What people are saying
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Book History
I began writing my books seriously about 1997. My main book started out as a multiple page news letter. After there was 35 pages, it was too expensive for me to hand out. Then I opted for floppy disks because of the ability to hand out 75 - 135 pages at little expense. Those
disks went everywhere, but I knew that enforcing an ownership of copyrighted material wasn't very enforceable when in digital
format. Therefore I began printing books. The first edition was printed in 2000 and had 168 pages. Since then the book went through a rewrite about every year.
It started out as Sunnyside's Lousy Book, but as the book grew over 300 pages, I needed a smaller version to sell out on the street. So I came up with the Tightwad edition. Eventually I changed the name of Lousy Book to Burning Down the House.
Therefore I replaced the name of Tightwad with the original name of the main book, Sunnyside's Lousy Book. Then there was the even smaller addition titled, What Happened, that was 16 pageslong but I discontinued it after about 175 sold because selling
the Lousy Book was the one that would sell When I offered them both. And I was wondering if it was steeling dollars that I could've
made on a Lousy Books. Both of them are dangerous because they're both too short to explain things the way they should.
There are those times I feel the condensed version is sometimes found to be detrimental to the whole story because I hear back from my readers that they sometimes get confused about some of the things. I've been told not to even sell the 52 page any more and go with
the 92 page instead.
But then again, if, the Lousy Book may be stealing money from Burning down the House.
Thought people say it's a good and interesting read, I have realized the Lousy Book could be detrimental to the story being as believable as it should be. It's just too hard to cut portions down in size and still cover all bases. Therefore the full size edition seems
to be the way to go. Its a delight to be able to talk to anyone who read them though. I never have to start at ground zero
with the standard questions and never getting a chance to explain every thing. Its out there boy and down think it will do you any good to skim through it. The readers who just read potions of it come up with some real crazy ideas.
In the full sized edition Burning Down the House, you'll learn things over time, just as I did and it's just a matter of putting two and two together. Kinna like James Rockford did in the television series about how a private investigator pieced things together.
As for the books: Print on demand so you can be sure you are getting the latest edition. There isn't going to
be any four color covers for a while, but I can assure you that they are on my list of things to do.
However, the covers are made out of thick 120 card stock that have a laminated plastic finish on the outside of each cover. it's safe to set your coffee on it.
The comb-bining may seem a little funky at first, but people say they like them because they lay open so nice.
The Lousy Books: they are just stapled with a 60-70 weight card stock cover that has been sealed with a spray clear finish to help keep them clean. and they are just stapled.
The type set as any other book but set with around 70 characters per line and so that it is an efficient page lay out and also easy to read.
It still feels kinna funny signing my books, but if you would like me to sign your book for you, just drop me an E-mail when you buy one and I'll be happy to sign it for you.
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