Issue/Edition 15: Truth and Lies

Two books: one true, one false. They travel together.

LAST KNOWN DESTINATION: Turner, Australia

Issue/Edition 14: Anonymous

This one's anonymous. No names. All secret. Pass it on.

It's also very, very tiny.

You could hide it in the palm of your hand.

LAST KNOWN DESTINATION: Goulburn, Australia

Issue/Edition 13: All We Share is Monsters

Be careful, 13! Monsters! Next stop, Poland!

As this issue marks the first quarter of this nonsensical experiment, it will also be our first Bounce Back edition.

What, pray tell, is a Bounce Back edition? you ask. Or so I imagine.

Simple: when it reaches the halfway mark (6 months from now), the contributor who holds it will send it back to the person from whom they received it. That person will then send it back to the person who'd posted it to them, and so on, till it makes its way back home, following the same route by which it had come.

SO... everyone gets to see the book twice, and contribute twice. Moreover, they get to see the work of the people who contributed after they did, and more importantly - alter, comment on, respond to, annotate, edit, censor, expand or draw further inspiration from it. They can go back and add more to their own work, with the benefit of all that added thinking time, or they can see how others interpreted their work and respond to that.

That's a Bounce Back issue.

LAST KNOWN DESTINATION: Nowy Sacz, Poland

Issue/Edition 12: One of These Mornings, Bright and Free

LAST KNOWN DESTINATION: Barellan, Australia

Book, Interrupted

This week's bookmagazinebook posting will be a little late, as I seem to have misplaced my camera. Rest assured that it is a lovely soft-covered number in pastel pink and green with nice stitched borders and a sparkly silver ribbon divider.

But while we're here, let's take pause to consider this whole thing.

A few questions that have occurred to me in recent weeks:

Firstly, and most obviously, where are all the bookmagazines? I followed Issue/Edition 1 for about 7 or 8 people, but I don't know where it is now. I haven't heard a peep from any subsequent books. Which I kind of like, while being equally concerned by.

How does each person's contribution affect those afterwards? Are people responding to what they already find, whether consciously or not?

Are people writing sequentially, for instance, beginning on page one and moving forward from there? Or are people working against what they find, trying hard not to repeat?

How is the momentum different for each bookmag?

And such things.

But mostly: where are all the bookmagazines?