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Craig Mod Aug 25, 2024

Hello all! My forthcoming book, the Random House edition of Things Become Other Things (May 2025), is now available for preorder:

https://craigmod.com/books/things_become_other_things/

Things Become Other Things

A book of walking the Kii Peninsula

Craig Mod

Craig Mod Aug 21, 2023

🚨📖 NEW BOOK NEWS 📖🚨

It is with great excitement to announce: My forthcoming book, THINGS BECOME OTHER THINGS, has sold hardcover and paperback rights to Random House.

It's a unique deal. I'm retaining fine art photography rights. The fine art edition will be published via my SPECIAL PROJECTS program in November 2023. It is a followup to Kissa by Kissa, and will be similarly printed, bound, and produced entirely in Japan.

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Things Become Other Things (Book)

A quick survey to help me (Craig Mod) understand interest in the editions for my forthcoming book THINGS BECOME OTHER THINGS (TBOT) (SPECIAL PROJECTS 2023, Random House 2025) TBOT is a followup to KISSA BY KISSA, starting right where it left off in central Japan, chronicling my ten+ year relationship with the Kii Peninsula through the lens of a thirty+-day walk (routes include: Ise Kaido, Ise-ji, Kumano Kodō, Nakahechi, Kohechi, and more). TBOT has a strong "memoir" component (it was technically sold as a memoir to Random House) — in that the walk frames reflections on my childhood in a post-industrial American town, my emigration to Japan as a student some 23 years ago (!!), and the life of one lost friend. If you've ever wanted to know a bit more about who the heck I am, this book might illuminate some of that. All the while we'll be chatting with farmers, kissa owners, inn proprietors, drunken fishermen, okonomiyaki ladies, foul-mouthed little kids, and whispering priests. We'll be reflecting on the complex spiritual history of the peninsula, its loss of industry (lumber, fishing), eating a bunch of toast and lobsters, guzzling gallons of bad coffee, gazing longingly out at the sea, communing with the fauna, and climbing a bunch of leechy wet mountains. In November 2023 I'll be publishing (via my SPECIAL PROJECTS membership program) the "fine art" edition of TBOT: limited edition 1,000 signed copies printed and bound in Japan clothbound hardcover silk-screened cover 80 full-color photographs 40,000 words 240 pages So — very much in the spirit of Kissa by Kissa! But longer, and more personal. It should be the same price (~$95 — still slightly TBD), but Yearly SP members will get a big discount as always. I'll then be working with editor Molly Turpin at Random House to produce the "trade hardcover" edition — text only (maybe a few B&W photos), expanded ~30% for a "broader audience" to be published in ~April 2025 (yes, it's a long way away!). This is exciting and rare — to be able to produce two complementary editions of the same book. Everyone has been so generous and accommodating in this process. I'm grateful for this opportunity, and I hope that you'll consider grabbing both copies, since they'll be quite different (and it should be interesting / fun / bizarre to see how TBOT evolves!). Thanks for your interest and support. — Craig

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Craig Mod Jul 30, 2023

enjoying the 1000mbps down here in london

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Craig Mod Jul 25, 2023

And a few more

Craig Mod Jul 25, 2023

a few shots from the recent 300km england coast-to-coast walk; i lugged a hasselblad around on a lark, and it turned out pretty fun and, amazingly, the photos were all properly exposed