Looking for a unique gift for someone special? Ephemeral City is a book in a box containing stories and ephemera evoking Brisbane through eighty years of history. Surely you know someone who’s into that, right? Https://www.simongroth.com/ephemeralcity

Wrote about Ephemeral City and the challenges of a book in a box for The Writing Platform. Includes bonus floppy disk diversion. https://thewritingplatform.com/2024/09/a-book-in-a-box-is-a-complex-thing/

Can you launch a book months after its initial release? Of course you can. When you make books this weird, anything is possible and time is meaningless. There will be giveaways. And we’re making new pieces of ephemera just for everyone who attends the event. Book now: https://avidreader.com.au/pages/10391-SimonGroth-EphemeralCity #brisbane #books #booklaunch

State Library of Queensland asked me to contribute a new piece of short fiction inspired by an object in their collection so I wrote tiny little extension of Ephemeral City, a story of love and typography. https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/finders-keepers-simon-groth

Nothing screams bullshit quite like concept art.

Hey the update to my description of Ephemeral City has flowed through to Amazon. You’re welcome, future readers.

We chose to use a print on demand service with global distribution for the bound edition of Ephemeral City, basically to make it easier for bookshops to get copies wherever they are. That also means Amazon has it listed too. I wasn’t quite prepared for these sellers (the ‘zon especially) to go way way above RRP and price gouge (11% discount my arse). That extra money goes to more Bezos space follies and not to me or @TinyOwlWorkshop. I’m going to change the description of the book to ensure it isn’t mistaken for the boxed edition and maybe add the RRP in the description itself to avoid this kind of nonsense. I never expected that this would be necessary. Whether those changes will go through the system and show up in future listings I don’t know. We may yet yank it from distribution altogether. In the meantime the book is still readily available in all editions from my site. Don’t buy it from Amazon.