[Edits 5/28/13. Edit 9/3/13.]
In my blog entry of May 31, if you’ve seen it, there is reference to an alternative edition of my novel The Folder Hunt: Annotated Edition (FH hereafter). [Update: This offer in some general sense still stands, but content as listed below could change.]
In my blog entry of May 31, if you’ve seen it, there is reference to an alternative edition of my novel The Folder Hunt: Annotated Edition (FH hereafter). [Update: This offer in some general sense still stands, but content as listed below could change.]
The second version, Alternative B, which had been on hold, was meant to be more edgy and variable. It is what I call the “flower box” edition. It is not the full, regular-edition FH, which has balloon annotations on a certain subset of pages; these pages with annotations are excluded in Alternative B. In this version, the first 161 pages will be the text, with preface and end notes, as with the regular edition.
But the latter 120 pages will contain a variety of different “flowers in the flower box,” in different amounts, with the amounts of each changing as time goes on.
The “flower box” edition of The Folder Hunt—which had been on hold—is closer to being available, and now has a few minor selections lined up for inclusion, as “flowers in the flower box.” The following could be offered in some combination (all or some of them), and the balance of the latter 120 pages (whatever doesn’t flesh out the total “flower box” section to 120 pages) will comprise FH pages with balloon annotations:
1. There is a part from my book manuscript on the Bauer v. Glatzer lawsuit, alternatively titled Second Thoughts and The Representative:
Interlude: The September 12 Court Hearing and the September 19 Decision: Not Again!—Then, Blessed Relief (This is an important, and culminating, part of the “plot” of that book’s story.) (roughly 22 pages; probably will shrink)
Also, nonfiction material that is thematically apropos to The Folder Hunt:
2. A section is related to my autobiography How My Gyroscope Started, and it happens to have been a stand-alone piece I made available online in 2010. It will be reproduced in the FH package virtually as it was in 2010, and is titled:
Ugly Business Dealings and Lingering Hard Feelings: Glimpses of Growing Pains of [the Community of] Barry Lakes
3. Paired with this is a section I had originally meant to be part of it, but is related in an intriguing way to my memoir of support-group “adventures” (with pseudonyms used, of course), A College Try that Courted Trouble. This is (provisionally titled):
[A “Small World” Story: A Man I Met Unexpectedly in a Support-Group Setting, Who Had Worked for a Developer of the Community of Barry Lakes about 25 Years Before, and Whose Memory of the Trials of That Work Still Lingered] (6 or 7 pages) [Update: A version of this story can be seen later in this entry.]
4. Another section related to A College Try that Courted Trouble, which I also posted online in 2010, which may be adapted, cut, or deleted from this set of FH items [Update: This section, in fact, will be cut.]:
Did an Employer Miscalculate? Cheryl’s Experience in How She Was Handled in Her Depressive Crisis at Work in April 2002 (~5 pages)
5. There will be some medical-science-related material (6 pages), reflecting years of informal research (reading, locating references), related to some fictionalized content of FH. Along with this will be a copy of a letter I received in 1990 from Ross J. Baldessarini, M.D., a longtime clinical researcher at Harvard Medical School and the Mailman Research Center
6. A section of various material headed Outtakes, Leftovers, and Epilogues: Items Related to Entries in my Blog, which can include blog parts that were not posted online, further thoughts on certain issues I discussed (which I feel are not necessary to include on the blog), or other similar material. (page count could vary a lot) [Update: This section seems like a good idea, but its content is not settled at all, and what is offered for sale to individual consumers could vary by consumer.]
