Sooner than I thought, it’s here. Just click download and your copy is in hand.
There will likely be a Part II of this in a few months, but I wanted to keep this first one simple and to the point. It’s an interactive PDF, so feel free to click around, explore the book, find your way back or get lost in it again.
The design of this, from the charts and illustrations to the embedded linking, was by far the most fun. There might be a print edition of this at some point in the future, but I think it would lose some of its character in that format. When I designed it, it was to be a digital, connected experience fully using the medium it was made in. Hopefully it works in that way.
I recommend reading it on a bigger screen than a phone, such as a desktop, laptop, iPad, etc. It can be read on a phone, of course, but I leave that to each reader to decide for themselves.
I’m calling this version the Release 1.0 Stable Beta because there might well be updates, changes, fixes, and new incorporations to it in the future, depending on feedback and input from readers and my own pro-editing whims. Though it is copyrighted, I encourage you to share it with people you know over email, messages, text, etc., and copy it as much as you like.
Hopefully you like what I’ve been working on.
-Sam,
February 22nd, 2023