Ep. 351 Do You Make False Promises (or just me)?

Bookbinding I bound my Marsh Mystery Series detective-noir very short novel The False Promises Case. In making this book I used leftover material except for the thread and wax.    The book boards were recycle files cut to size, kind of. When I cut the file I remember thinking I will cut this to size later; of course, I forgot I told my self that – I never listen to my self. The result is the book covers are too big. I dislike making books whose covers are too big.   The book cover was made of leftover book cloth from a couple of previous books (two blank notebooks, and a coptic-bound book for doodling).    Even the endpapers were scrounged from a purchase of endpapers. I mean, the wrapping for the endpapers I used as endpapers for this book. This book is A6 in size, and 60-pages. Fiction

I complete The False Promises Case – A Marsh Mystery last week. I spent time rewriting, looking for confusion, and checking the pacing. I think it’s ready to be seen by the public.

Joe and Carmen investigate why a respectable man would kill someone; that someone was a ponzi scheme jerk who lived off the money he scammed out of people, but why did the man kill him? 

Plus, in the middle of the case, Carmen needs an operation.

Dmitry the Scavenger is moving slowly but deeper. Agnes Grout has progressed about a paragraph or two. Both of these novels are building up to something; I just don’t know what. For example, I’m thinking of connecting Dmitry with a character in Molly Bright or The Tokyo Tunnel Girl. In Molly he might meet Frank, a gangster from Phoenix who owns a run-down ramen shop in Osaka. In The Tokyo Tunnel Girl he could meet with a character called The Russian. Or, there could be no relation between the three novels.

Which of these two covers do you like best?

Talkies / Flicks

TDGB 94 Making False Promises is up on YouTube for your audio and visual pleasure.

It is the making of the detective-noir novella I talked about in the Bookbinding (and Fiction) section so you should be familiar with it. 

The music is nice, too.

Books

Again, you have the opportunity to listen to the audio book of The Merchant of Venus. About a man who creates females out of his own body part.

The audio book is available only on Apple Books. The ebook is available on Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo (among others)

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