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June 24, 2006
On Sunday, August 20, I’m
releasing a book entitled Twelve Dreams: a transcription. I’ll go
into more detail about the small volume in a moment, but first, an
invitation — I’ll be hosting a sort of “opening/release party” at the
District of Columbia Arts Center in Adams Morgan, and I’m hoping you’ll join
me:
Sunday, Aug. 20
D.C. Arts Center (aka, DCAC)
2438 18th St. NW
Adams Morgan
5 p.m.
Copies of the book will be available for $7, though if you can’t make it but
are still interested in supporting the project, you can order a copy by
email.
So, about this book …
Twelve Dreams
is a small volume that contains a collection of dream transcriptions and
short fiction. The book is something I’ve been working on for a while,
trying to find a venue for, and finally decided to publish myself.
I gave a lot of thought to the “self-publishing” process for several
reasons, not least of which being that it seems to err on the self-indulgent
side. But the project is also something that means a lot to me, and I wanted
to try and share it with anyone interested.
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Being what
it is, the project is not commercially viable on a large scale. It’s a
small thing that is mostly just significant to me. No one is going to
get rich off this, and I can’t imagine distributing more than a few
hundred copies.
So perhaps that begs the question — Why? I mean, if it’s a small project
that will not make money, and not many people will see it, what’s the
point?
I think the primary reason for following through with this (the writing
and layout and printing and distributing), is just because it seemed
important. So much of what we do in our daily lives is about getting by,
paying rent and working jobs that are mostly about making other people
happy. Finding ways to do things that you yourself value seems to have a
kind of certainty and completeness that is often missing in other
endeavors.
The project represents a lot of time spent writing and editing, trying
to ensure that the final work really said what I wanted it to say. It’s
intended as a statement about a lot of things — home and dreams and
faith and family. But perhaps more that that, it’s a statement about
making something, setting it out for others to see, and hoping they
connect with it.
If you can make it to the opening, I’d love to see you. Frankly, I’m
scared to death to put these pages and words out into the world, and I’m
hoping to find as much support as possible, as much for the process as
for the final product. So bring friends, tell people, come join me ...
--Robert
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All Images Copyright 2006 --
Robert Walton
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