I have posted a new excerpt in Stories. The seven short stories in Nansen's Cat and the novella Loose Fish all feature the DoubleNickel Detective, and each of the stories introduces 'Nick' with the same brief biography before preceding on to the mystery and mayhem. Find "Nick' in Excerpts-Read-Stories.
A synopsis for both the books is in the March 21st post in Archives (scroll down or click on post in right hand column.)
KNOTBUCHWERKS (KBW) is the kennel where I keep my mangy dawgs. The book list which was posted March 21 provides a synopsis of the fifteen titles currently available. Questions and comments should be addressed to KBW using the contact form in right column.
Excerpts from my work will be posted by category: Essay, Story, Poem. Click on the link in right hand column.
Over the past fifty years, I have written twenty books. This website is intended to provide information on the fifteen that are available. A list of the books each with its own synopsis can be found in the March 2023 archive (right side panel) if that post is not visible.
The title of this web log is odd, intentionally so. I enjoy wordplay, and the sheer number of 'blogs' makes new titles hard to come by. KNOTBUCHWERKS originated with a rejection slip. Scrawled on the cover letter of my submission was this: ... 73 pages is too short for a book.
Samuel Beckett notwithstanding. Or sitting. Or lying prone.
The sixteen 'books' on my shelf---most of which are only 100 pages or so---were offended. They were no longer books. Now we know, they said, how Pluto felt. So ...
'Not books' became knotbooks---it is a tangled web we weave---became Knotbuch Publishing. I paused a good while over that word 'publishing.' Not the right word at all. Too highfalutin; and not what I intended for my knotbuchs. So ...
Knotbuch Publishing became Knotbuchwerks.
And for your edification: About 25% of English vocabulary has a Germanic origin (buch, werk); 45% comes from Latin-French infusions (flute); the remaining 30% is usually labeled 'native' and comes from a variety of sources. More or less.
