About Desert Sage Books Desert Sage Books - named for the healing plants growing about my region - launched as a kitchen table operation to produce Strange Days Indeed. I'd earlier gone through a print-on-demand publisher for the novella Body Freedom Day - sort of self-publishing with training wheels. After the rush of getting this first book out subsided, I knew wanted more control over production and distribution of future work, and so set out to learn the ropes of real self-publishing. 
The million and one painstaking details of self-publishing - from proofreading, text formatting, and contracting cover design, getting ISBN number, and working with book manufacturer - can be daunting. Especially to a pronounced right-brain, "Dammit Jim, I'm an artist, not a businessman" type like me (our numbers are legion). But the extra sense of accomplishment it gave was gratifying. Although breathing words to life in finished book form is a circuitous journey, it's well worth taking if one has the time and patience to learn - and money. To any interested, Dan Poynter's The Self-Publishing Manual and/or Tom & Marilyn Ross's The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing offer in-depth overviews of the minutiae involved in starting up a business. Other Publication 
Body Freedom Day:When a Clothed-Minded World Unraveled Stuart Ward Infinity Publishing, 2004 ISBN: 0-7414-1945-9 128 pp. novella 5.5 X 8.5 perfect bound Resource listings USD $10.00 Body Freedom Day: When a Clothed-Minded World Unraveled is the novella Strange Days expanded on. Narrative explores radical body acceptance and socialized nudity, as told by 112-year-old Zet Quimby, writing in the same enlightened future. A thorough analysis of the myriad attitudes towards nudity - one's own and that of others - plus a visionary fantasy of a kinder future world going clothing-optional, catalyzed by thousands of blithe spirits in a future (at time of printing) San Francisco Bay-to-Breakers footrace. "It displays a wry sense of humour it is told at the personal level and mostly by anecdote, and so is easy reading I recommend it." --Duncan Heenan, British website reviewer "an excellent counterpart in both form and subject to Edward Bellamy's `Looking Backward' (1888)." --Lee Baxendall, founder of U.S.'s The Naturist Society |
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