In the Book

[kevin_standlee]

Early this afternoon, Lisa, I, and Kuma Bear polished off the originals for the Tonopah Westercon Program Book. It's a small booklet — Westercon in Tonopah would have been a low-budget convention — and the middle eight pages seem to have been censored by something called the Interdimensional Anomaly Protection Authority (subtitled "The Time Police"), but we're happy with it. I created a PDF and printed a final draft on my inkjet printer set to its highest resolution, and then we headed in to Reno because there isn't any place in Fernley for this sort of copying work.

At the FedEx Office in south Reno, we asked how long it would take to make 20 of these, and the guy said, "Noon tomorrow, maybe." Hm. The only thing we couldn't do ourselves was the saddle stapling. (I think I have a long-arm stapler somewhere, but it's probably buried in my storage locker.) He allowed as if we did the self-serve printing and folding, he could do the saddle-stapling while we waited.

I did make a mistake here. I allowed him to talk me into using the originals from the inkjet printer rather than printing straight from my PDF. After printing them, Lisa and I decided that the cover, at least, didn't really come out the way we wanted. We got some more of the cover stock and I did one direct print from PDF, and that looked a lot better, so we re-ran the covers and Lisa re-collated them. True to his word, the guy at what I still think of as Kinko's stapled them for us and when we were done, we had 21 copies of what fell through the wormhole. We'll have them at our party on Friday night of Westercon.

Alas, it looks like we will be the only party on our floor, because we can't afford a party suite, and the 13th floor above us, where the bid and convention parties are, is all suites. So if you do make it up to the 13th floor, please venture down one flight on Friday night and see the little corner of Kuma Bear's version of Westercon.

Comments

[bigblued.livejournal.com]

If you need to saddle staple something, but don't have a saddle stapler, there is a cheat. You can open up a regular stapler and staple down into some foam or foamcore. This gets the staple through the paper, anywhere you want, but doesn't fold the ends. You then flip the document over and hand fold the staple with a flat screwdriver or butter knife. Not something you'd want to do for a large run, but it does work in a pinch.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip. For the small number we did, we might have done that had we thought of it and saved 25 cents/booklet for the binding costs.

[melchar.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't the Interdimensional Anomaly Protection Authority actually be the 'Temporal Interdimensional Ministry Enforcers'?

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I wish we'd thought of that!

[melchar.livejournal.com]

You can use it next time ... time ... time. ^_^

[kproche.livejournal.com]

We certainly will make an effort to take a break from our party at some point to visit!

[lindadee.livejournal.com]

Please save me a copy. I'll be commuting, so I don't know if I'll be at the convention by the time the parties start.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

No problem. The party isn't until Friday night. You and I will be sitting next to each other at about 11 AM Friday morning for a while. Let's see if we can remember to take care of it then. Besides, you were a pre-supporter, so we have your membership badge, too.

[randy-smith2.livejournal.com]

Alas, I will not be at the con. Are you planning to post the program book to efanzines?

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Gosh, I never thought of doing that. I'll drop a line to Bill Burns and ask him if I could send him a copy for posting. Thank you!