Welcome to PEA-POD - Print-Electronic-Audio Publishing On Demand

Okay, so, once I was a short-story writer. I started when I was eight. Then I wrote a novella, when I was nine or ten. Then I "worked" in audio, recording radio plays with my sister on my dad's portable cassette recorder and experimenting with different audio formats. Then I started writing poetry when I was in my early teens. Then I took to writing essays and novels and creating chapbooks and experimental books when I was in my 20's. Then I took to the web, writing more essays and short stories and novels and articles and such, for the electronic format (including full-scale sites). Now I'm in my 40's, and I've begun publishing in print, web and audio formats.

Back to my roots, you might say -- all of them. Leaving nothing out, considering everything, and availing myself of all the technical tools at hand (free and low-cost) which make it possible for folks to publish ideas when and where and how they want to.

PRINT
ELECTRONIC
AUDIO
PUBLISHING
ON
DEMAND

P E A - P O D*

This is an ongoing discussion of all the publishing projects I have going on, the technologies and methodologies I use to produce my product, the philosophies that guide me, the biases that shape(d) me, and the experiences I've had -- and continue to have -- as I cut a swath through the jungle that is the independent publishing world. I'm hoping what I write here will be useful to others, and I'm hoping you find it in your heart to appreciate the sentiment(s) (or at least take pity on me in my more hapless moments) and support the work I do and the ideas I put out, either with moral support or sponsorship or hiring me for consulting contracts. After today (12/9) I'm out on my own for however long it takes me to get freedom (and its attendant responsibilities) out of my system. It may never happen. Or it could happen in early '06. Who can say? Time will tell.

For what it's worth, I plan to push this whole new publishing mix to its very limits and see just what I can scare up, in terms of a whole new life, a whole new orientation, a whole new twist on the winding path of what some would loosely label a career.

Let the games begin

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*Okay, okay, so I know there's another "Peapod" out there, and they deliver groceries for Stop-N-Shop in the Boston area (glad to see they survived the fire that all but wiped them out when they first started up -- or so I heard happened). I'm not competing against them, and I dispute any copyright they may have to their name. If it makes it any easier, I'll stylize the way I write "PEA-POD", so there's no confusion and I don't put them in a bad light by assocation (or vice versa ;).