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On this day in history…

…at least according to the “on this day in history” plugin installed on my blawg, I made the earliest announcement of VWORP!1 (at the time, rather naively known as a potentially-thousand-page book simply called VWORP!), four years ago today.

VWORP! VWORP!1

(That’s funny and fitting: the earliest draft cover used the credit font from the Hartnell era; the completed, released cover uses something quite a bit more current. No, I didn’t plan that.)

These days I do silly things like announce that I’ll have two books of roughly the same size out in the next 18 years months. What can I say? I like a challenge. 😆 … Read more

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Moving right along…

VWORP!2I spent much of today working on the next two books, VWORP!2 and WARP!1. Really did more work on VWORP!2 (which is perversely appropriate, as it’s not the one that comes out first), but some of that work helps WARP!1 too, since both books are in a very similar format.

One of the things I did today was whip up a nifty little graphic for the Short Hops in VWORP!2. For those who have gotten VWORP!1, you already know that there are plenty of asides and stories that didn’t fit comfortably under discussion of particular episodes or seasons. In many cases they’re first-person stories of odd, and often humorous, ways that my life has intersected with Doctor Who down through the years. I decided that, for VWORP!2 and VWORP!3, I wanted the Short Hops interludes to “pop” a bit more, and have a little bit of a graphic signature. … Read more

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Pulling rank

Couple of things of note today…

KickThe beloved Kick machine sold this morning on eBay for the opening bid. No sweat there – I was happy for it to go for that much, and to a fellow arcade collector no less. I will just say that the buyer is based nearby, and I’m hoping I might be able to persuade them to bring it to OVGE one of these days. I’ll be extremely bummed to see it go – even when it hasn’t been working 100%, there’s just something about that bright, happy side art on the machine that takes the edge off of things a bit. A really happy guy (with a spiked helmet) riding a unicycle, popping balloons. If that doesn’t make you crack a smile every time you see it, I can’t help you. I’ll miss the machine though.

Other big news of the evening: VWORP!1 has apparently been chronicled in Howe’s Transcendental Toybox. Howe as in David J. Howe, co-author of all of the seven Doctor Who “Handbooks” (now out of print and hard to find) which I used as primary research material while writing the book. … Read more

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It’s almost OVGE time

NOT THE MIND PROBEA great big box of books landed on my doorstep with a resounding thud today, which is pretty much the last step in getting ready for OVGE this Saturday. I think that may actually set a new record for me: I’m finished figuring out what to bring a week out, rather than freaking out the night before. (There have been a couple of years where my theme was decided, and signage and other graphical aids designed and printed to match, literally the night before.) Of course, now the trick is to not spend the next few days second-guessing myself. … Read more

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The man in the middle

Okay. Small rant here in the run-up to OVGE and the “live” debut of VWORP!1. It’s taken me long enough to get this book out the door that I’ve watched my good friend Rob O’Hara get two books out the door, and I’ve had time to take in how he’s handled presentation and marketing a bit (not to mention that he provides that advice freely from the get-go). Accordingly, I spent a little bit of money – not a whole lot, but more than I usually do – on signage and presentation for OVGE this year. I had stuff made by other folks instead of rolling my own out of my long-suffering inkjet printer. … Read more

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Now available…

…and you can order it here.

Me and Dinsdale and VWORP!1

This has been a long process, to say the least. I set out to write this book in 2008, and quickly discovered that it wouldn’t be as easy as “putting the web site on paper.” Nor should it have been – that would’ve been incalculably lazy. What resulted was something far better than that, something that took a hell of a lot more work than that, something that looks pretty decent as an actual book, and something that hopefully everyone will like reading and referring to as much as I liked putting it together.

WARP!1 is coming along nicely; I did a little bit of work on it this morning. There’s no time to pause and reflect. This is merely the next step on the road.… Read more