It's so beautiful...

The proofs copy of "The Nominal Hero" has arrived, and it's everything I hoped it would be. I'm going to be launching the book officially this Monday, April 8, and the cover artist, @Messhup, will be putting out an open edition of the cover art on Zora at the same time.

I'll be making PDF and ePUB versions of the book available here for free download; like Nouns themselves, this book is in the public domain, and I encourage everyone to share it, remix it, do all kinds of cool things with it, and tell me about them! The paper book will be for sale on Amazon - sadly, not free, since paper and printing cost money and we do not yet live in a Star Trek world, alas. But I will probably give you a copy if we run into each other in person somewhere. :)

This is so exciting!

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