So the fourth fit (or chapter, or issue, or episode) was finished at lunch today, taken out and rejiggered a bit during an overlong, I admit it, afternoon break (the stinger needed cutting, and I hadn’t the heart at lunch), marked up once more after the first printed copy hit the hopper (she ends two exhortations in a row with comma here? Jesus), and, finally, run off in bulk on cheap white paper. It’s sitting on the living room floor now, along with various covers and the innards of the first three. The cats don’t know what to make of it. Neither do I.
It’s slated to start here on the 25th of September, after the first three have re-run their course. —If you’d rather read it sooner, well. I could always mail you a copy. (I’d also like to take this opportunity to point out that there’s a bouquet available, as well: the first four chapbooks all in one go for the price of three. And to remind you that the pieces of paper currently befuddling the cats will be assembled and stapled and neatly stacked on a table at the Portland Zine Symposium next weekend.)
But hell: it’s done. Now for sleep, and then a plane flight to an undisclosed location near the Canadian border, and three or four days of lakewater and front porches and “Palmcorder Yajna” on heavy rotation. Just the thing to prime the pump for five.
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Yes, it’s true. City of Roses is returning. What you’re seeing if you’re seeing anything right now is the assembly process, as I work out the kinks and the design and the organization. I’ll have a table (with the redoubtable Erika Moen) at the Portland Zine Symposium, August 11 – 13, with paper chapbooks of the first four chapters available for purchase (price yet to be determined, but probably three bucks a pop).
Yes, four. The big news, then, is probably that the 4th chapter will be done by the end of the month, and you can get your very own copy on paper at the Symposium, before it makes its appearance online.
After the Symposium, on Monday, August 14th, I’ll start re-running City of Roses here at its brand-new home. “Prolegomenon” will start on the 14th, “Fidessa” on the 28th, and “Zoobombing” on the 11th of September. Which means the 4th chapter, “a-Hunting,” will premiere online on the 25th.
Gives me plenty of time to finish the 5th chapter, “Freeway,” slated to appear on October 9th.
Such is the theory, anyway.
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