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Good things are starting to happen for me. Last week so the much-delayed (not, I am glad to be able to hasten to add, through any fault of my own) printing of Capital Letter was finally delivered and, yes, I am pretty proud of my work. That it is paying work makes it all the sweeter. Below is a sample.

More than that, I've been contracted to layout and design a book (magazine size) and, if the gods are with me, this week will see me in receipt of the first payment for a ghost-writing project I can at this point refer to as Ghost-Writing Project (because I'm so imaginative).

Which means I'm going to be even more busy than I have been, but that I'll be getting paid for some of it. And I like that a lot.

Crossposts: http://ed-rex.livejournal.com/218888.html

Earlier today, before Raven and I went out for our second visit to the Museum of Nature, there came a buzzing at the door a few minutes ago. A canvasser pounding on doors for one of the candidates in the municipal election, I thought at first, but as I approached I saw a uniformed man with an envelope in his hand.

A registered letter? I wondered.

Not quite. I opened the door and saw the return address said "Custom Printers" on on the envelope was the word, "Proof".

My first (paid) layout and design job, my first time working on paper since, well, since I worked with paper, using actual press-on Letraset way back in the Ante-divulian 1990s.

Anyway, at the risk of sounding immodest, it looks fucking great. It needs a few tweeks, but it's a thoroughly professional-looking job and one I'm thoroughly proud of. As I am coming to be, now that I'm tooting my own horn, of TrueNorthPerspective.com.

ETA: Indiscretion removed.