Planning a self published book - 5

Status update

1. Select the chapter categories
2. Design the covers
3. Make a mini trial version of the content
4. Rethink plan and feasibility
5. Make volume 1 (kindle version) in PDF format
6. Get a review of volume 1
7. Present the PDF to editors
8. Contact PrintRoom
9. GO - NOGO decision
10. Edition size decision
11. Order print run of volume 1

Most of the chapters finished

A sample of two chapters and one illustration. Click to enlarge:

More challenge

I need to avoid irony. Irony is easy and cheap. The challenge is to make it positive somehow, and that will not be easy with my clippings from the Kindle.

Contents of volume 1 decided

After pruning the most pretentious keywords and removing keywords from similar domains, I'm left with the following 36 chapter headings. It feel like a nice random set. Strange how much the meaning and feeling changes if you put 'a', 'the', or nothing in front of a word.

salt - the periodic table - antioxidant
the bridge - suburbs - colour samples
window - oarsman - renaissance
pulley - the flood - silence
victory - strangers - stone lions
Japanese submarine - the clock
a savage plant - magma
consolation - the chair - atomic number
poetic empire - the monument - subway
eagles made from plastic - epicycle
crust - conservation of matter - finger
simulacrum - wheel of fortune - territory
mission - fear - the moon

Urban mushroom diary 26

Mushrooms seen between 2 and 22 December 2019.

Note: This is how it looks like when I'm hopelessly trying to determine one of my urban mushrooms. Simply by brute-force and trial-and-error:

2-12-2019 - In a Swiss supermarket. An amazing variety, more species than in the Netherlands:

Pleurotus eyringii, Boletus edulis

Pleurotus ostreatus (?), Lentinula edodes (Shii take)

Morchella esculenta (?), dried

Cantharellus cibarius (?)

Agaricus bisporus

Pioppino, Agrocybe Cylindracea, Cyclocybe aegerita

In an urban lawn, all in the same neighborhood:

Most likely it is Hypholoma fasciculare but that one should grow on (or from) (buried) dead wood, so maybe not. And the spores would be much darker. But it might be an old one. It could also be Hypholoma capnoides. Weird … one is edible and the other one is poisonous.

This is not Armillaria mellea. That one also grows on wood.

Note: This is an interesting website: http://www.steinpilz-wismar.de/cms/?cat=783

It could be Tricholoma scalpuratum (?). That took me several days to find out!

At first I thought it might be a Russula. I also thought about Clitocybe amarescens.

But finally I settled on Lepista personata. It took me several days to find out!

In a Christmas shop:

20-12-209 In a cake shop in Den Bosch:

Urban mushroom diary 25

Between 1 September and 7 September 2019

Macrolepiota procera (?), in the city park, under beach (?) tree - they have all gone now, picked?

Or it could be Chlorophyllum rhacodes (?).

Lycoperdon molle (?), city park, besides bicyle path

Mycena haematopus (?), city park, dead tree, besides bicycle path

Coprinellus disseminatus (?), city park, dead tree, besides horse path

Laetiporus sulphureus (?), city park, besides horse path

Artomyces pyxidatus, city park, besides road

Urban mushroom diary 24

Mushrooms seen in Rotterdam - Arboretum, city parks

Between 25 August and 31 August 2019

Shiitake, ?, ?, Russula nigricans (?), Leccinum duriusculum, Lactarius controversus, Coprinus comatus, Agaricus bitorquis, Volvariella (?), Fuligo septica