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.