{"id":105,"date":"2010-07-24T07:02:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T04:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2010-07-24T07:02:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T04:02:23","slug":"alice-at-rlyeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/07\/24\/alice-at-rlyeh\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice at\u00a0R\u2019lyeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found another Lovecraft &#8220;mash up&#8221;.  Murray Ewing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.murrayewing.co.uk\/mewsings\/2010\/07\/11\/the-alice-at-rlyeh-report-part-1\/\">gives a long and useful account<\/a> of self-publishing his <em>Alice at R&#8217;lyeh<\/em>,  This is a new Carrollian nonsense poem, with illustrations, which imagines a combination of <em>Alice<\/em> and Lovecraft.  Predictably, and as I know myself, embedding the required fonts in a PDF and getting it to print to the required page size was a nightmare of Lovecraftian proportions.  But in the end, he writes&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I could get 100 16-page booklets for a little over \u00a3100 [&#8230;] I went with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedigitalprinters.com\/index.html\">www.thedigitalprinters.com<\/a> [&#8230;] I got the quote, uploaded my PDF, got an email back suggesting a lamination for the covers, okayed that, and then, a week later, I had my box of <em>Alice at R&#8217;lyeh<\/em> booklets. That moment &mdash; receiving your actual finished, physical copies, tangy with the scent of fresh ink and peppered with paper-dust &mdash; is the first heaven of self-publishing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/alice-at.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"alice-at\" width=\"119\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-106\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The story of promoting it comes in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.murrayewing.co.uk\/mewsings\/2010\/07\/25\/the-alice-at-rlyeh-report-part-2\/\">Part two<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found another Lovecraft &#8220;mash up&#8221;. Murray Ewing gives a long and useful account of self-publishing his Alice at R&#8217;lyeh, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/07\/24\/alice-at-rlyeh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}