Ladies and gentlemen, bookization is upon us! This is the magical, mystical, thoroughly mundane process by which articles in the New section of the site are redistributed into books in their own right in the Archive. This time out, there will be four new books. First up is the latest collection of Alternate Reality News articles, Welcome to the Insurrection (We’re Not Sorry About the Inconvenience). The last of the five Idiotocracy books, Welcome to the Insurrection has been available in print for several months; this will be the first time the complete text is available on Les Pages aux Folles. As a complete text, I mean. With a cover and everything.
Headlines Shred Limes will be a collection of articles made up of headlines commenting on headlines. This will be followed by The Daily You? No! The Daily Me! which, as the title makes clear, is a collection of Daily Me articles. Finally, there will be If the Basis of Good Government is an Informed Electorate, I’m Ready to Move to Another Planet, a general collection of articles which, if I’m being totally honest, just didn’t fit into any of the other collections.
This is the first time I will be bookizing on WordPress, and the process was fiddly and time-consuming even when I had had experience with my platform. What I’m saying is: things may get a little…messy. For a few days. Hopefully no longer than a week. But in the end, there will be four bouncing baby books (and the New section won’t seem so big, so…daunting). I think you will agree that it will be worth the disruption.