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Re: The Brick Testament: Stories from the Book of Genesis -- now in stores!
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Sun, 7 Sep 2003 09:18:58 GMT
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In lugnet.books, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
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Wow! Congratulations, man.
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Thanks, Bruce!
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I’ll definitely pick up a copy. No, maybe I’ll
pick up a few thousand copies and start leaving them in hotel rooms. ;)
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Ooh, I like the sound of that. @8^)
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Could you tell us a little more about this? How did it come about? Did a
publisher approach you, or did you seek out a publisher for this?
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It started to come about mid-last year when the president of Quirk Books
happened to hear the broadcast of the interview with me on National Public
Radio. He then checked out the website, liked what he saw, and contact me about
the possibility of putting about a Brick Testament book.
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Were you able to use your original photos, or did you have to re-build
scenes to take them at a higher resolution?
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Fortunately for me, I had taken the original photos at a high enough resolution
to make the book a possibility, so I did not need to reconstruct the stories
from scratch. If I’d had to reconstruct and re-photograph everything, it would
have probably meant that I would never have had time to do any updates to the
websites in the last year (Exodus, The Wilderness, The Law).
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Are the scenes in the book the same as on the web, or are there others
you had to add or delete?
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With minor editing, the stories in the book appear as they do on the website.
Most of the edits were done to save space and thereby allow more stories to make
it into the book. Basically, they told me they wanted the book to be about 150
pages at most. After some cajoling, I got them to expand it to 176. Even at
this length, every edit was painful for me, and done with reluctance, but I
guess that’s how authors tend to feel about edits to their creative work.
One interesting difference in the book version is that there are no dialogue
bubbles when people are speaking, just the text of the captions below. Whereas
I like the feel of the dialogue bubbles on the website, it was felt that they
didn’t translate as well into book form. I think it still reads easily enough
without them, and this way it shows off the parts of the photos that were
previously covered up by dialogue.
All the photos were re-touched up by me for the book, but a couple months back I
made jpg’s of the re-touched up photos and used those to replace the original
ones on the website. The only scene that did get reconstructed was The Garden
of Eden, for the cover shot. Also, each story has its own new chapter opening
image.
Hope to hear your comments on the book when it arrives! Thanks as ever for your
interest and support, Bruce.
-Rev. Smith
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