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In the Open Air November 2008

After working for five months to get Art Knows No Borders off the ground, not to mention getting Bombardirovka together and ready for some kind of release and print, I finally had time the other day to sit down with a copy a bookmaker friend bound. Nothing like time. Nothing like slowing down to see all that you missed, that everyone else missed pushing to make something go.

So, what did I see? Nothing, really, to change in terms of the main dish, the entree, as it were, of the novel... but lots of need for other garnishes, an adjustment in flavors. You know, a little more salt here, the wrong spice there... and oh, no, I put just a tad too little in here! Or, that clove didn't go there, but here! Okay, here is, then, the luxury of "publishing" online and for free--I can go back and change things. And that's what I did. Thus, the print version is not different in content, in context, or, really, in form, from the online version you'll find here.

Maybe there is even something charming about the print version or even the earlier online versions and their obvious omissions, typos, seams hanging out, torn pockets, flaws. Most of us are never privy to the writer's or filmmaker's process; we only get the heavily-reviewed, the committee-cleaned up, the perfectly-processed, the neatly-combed.

Well, guess what? You get to see some of "it" hanging behind me in the print and earlier online versions. At first, I was a bit embarrassed--how could I miss some of these mistakes when I scanned the final print copy? Then, I decided, what the hey. That's just me--more worried about the good out into the world, about keeping my word to release on 11/18/08. I believe in being cautious, but I also believe in the power of making amends. I also believe in the process of writing, of art, as being as important as the final "products." All right. So, if you get a print version of the book, you get to see some of my process: some hairs out of place, eyeliner smeared. Somehow, in some way, if you know me, that is fitting, to have layers available, to have access to something askew, as well as something set right.