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I’d like to share a small publishing milestone.

‘Drystone - A Life Rebuilt’ has gone into a second print run.

And because publishing is famously opaque, and there are so many wildly unrealistic ideas out there about how it all works, here are the numbers in plain terms...

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A grid of nine copies of the book 'Drystone - A Life Rebuilt' by Kristie De Garis arranged in three neat rows against a soft blush-pink and white background. The covers show an abstract composition of painted stone shapes in deep greens, golds, blues and black, with the title overlaid in bold black type.
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neat! thanks for that. I'm self-publishing a book in the next month (my first) and this helps to understand the territory. at least I know now not to complain about getting $5 per print copy.
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it's a series of memoirs and reflections on childhood and growing up in the gaming and tech era. mostly just really embarrassing shit I did that i lived to regret and never told anyone about 😅

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The rear and front covers of a book titled "Mages & Modems: A Childhood Well-Wasted in the Golden Age of Personal Computers, Games & Internet Piracy". The top of the book is a collage of various 1980s and 1990s computer parts and games, like a telephone handset, tandy trs-80 game, floppy disks and macintosh mouse. Underneath it all is a pile of video game maps and diagrams from Ultima and Wing Commander. The front cover reads "Endure more than 80 cringeworthy tales of the 1980s and 1990s." The rear cover of the book shows a typewritten letter: Dear Detective #0294, As discussed, I have enclosed a hardcopy of VGA256's journals discussed at the departmental briefing. The journal entries are chronological, and document the suspect's computing and gaming activities from the early 1980s to late 1990s - his childhood and adolescent years. Each vignette is an introspection into the suspect's self-described obsessions, including but not limited to: * IBM PC, Amiga, Apple ][, Macintosh, Tandy * MS-DOS, MacOS, Windows 3.1 & 95, UNIX * NES, GameBoy, Sega Genesis, TI-85 * Modems, BBSes, CompuServe, Prodigy, ISPs * Warez, FTP, Usenet, IRC, Shell Accounts * Origin Systems, LucasArts, Sierra On-Line ... and so on. The stories are a treasure trove of immoral and illicit activities that made him the dysfunctional adult he is now. I hope these will be of value in building your dossier on this delinquent. I expect a report on my desk by Friday. Deputy Chief Conover Brat & Punk Division
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