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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

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Craig Mod Oct 25, 2023

@liquidx + @maxfenton It's working!!

On the Deco. In the end, it was all because so-net hadn't "released" the hold on my NTT fiber connection. Anyway, returning the annoying Buffalo router and going full Deco be85 which makes me happy because the app is great and it looks good. Phew.

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.

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