The unfolded and assembled set of display shelves, counter area and signage display made from plywood, in the back trunk of a car.

All components compactly folded and stored.

Think AaN has a working - mobile, foldable, collapsable bookshop that fits in the trunk of the car. Ready for pop-ups, farm markets and maker trunk shows in parking lots. The signage display area on the right can go on the left, depending on which way the wind needs to be blocked.

Mobile bookstore display shelves and folding counter, now with a vertical signage display section being sized along with the sliding supports. All out of plywood, in the back of a Kia Niro.

Sizing the side sliding supports and vertical display section (have just cut these to size and will do another test fit tomorrow)

today was supposed to be a complete rest and do nothing day. oh well…

Cover to Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove - cover shows a vampire mouth engulfing a space rainbow starship and the title words

now reading

Come hear me talk tomorrow at Parsec SFF parsec-sff.org

Game box cover. Two lovers kiss as they part at a train station. It is all terribly sad and romatic.

Board Game Desinger hat on today - Working on ...

new band of the week: SpaceAcre

Cover to On The Calculation of Volume IV by Solvej Balle. Cover shows the title in a oval white ring, under this a multi colored blob is slowly drifting to the right in front of a blue to beige ombre background.

Now reading

happy one year cancer surgery anniversary

A peek inside the 3 matchbox boxes of the mini stories and enclosed match. Cover image is hand-printed.

The set of boxes in a mylar sleeve with the label - Light a Match, Start a Revolution and the AaN logo.

The finished set of "Light a Match, Start a Revolution" boxes to support the trans community. Visitors to the AaN book tables this season can purchase separate random boxes or the set of 3. Asking for minimum donations. All proceeds will go to a local trans organization.

A neat line of 'lit match' lino block printed matchboxes, pile of 100 matches and the stories waiting to be cut.

Hand-assembly of the 100 "lit match" matchboxes for our upcoming trans author support project "Light a Match, Start a Revolution" has commenced. Find these at our book fair tables this year. Thank you to our authors @zoeyhedman.bsky.social @leootherland.bsky.social and Athena Sophia for writing.

plates Set of 4 - each 2" x 2", .25" high Artist: Tom Davidson

New pieces in the pottery collection - smallcuratedpottery.blogspot.com/2026/04/plat...

Would enjoy it if a friend came over and spirited me away for a surprise adventure.

Today might be a very fine day to buy a book or one of our quirky side-project newspapers - aanpress.com/aanorder.html #sff #fantasy #booksky #anthology #sciencefiction

"The Butterfly Queen" small wooden box with an inserted card. Holds 12 painted wooeden cubes, handstamped with letters forming a poem.

"The Scent of Honey" small wooden box with an inserted card. Holds 12 painted wooeden cubes, handstamped with letters forming a poem.

"Seven Raven Daughters" small wooden box with an inserted card. Holds 12 painted wooeden cubes, handstamped with letters forming a poem.

The finished poem cube boxes.

“The Butterfly Queen”, “The Scent of Honey”, “Seven Raven Daughters”

Listed on the artworks/artist books site - aanpress.com/artworks/ #art #portfolioday #booksky

sample set of chapbooks with different color covers and orange binding thread in enclosing envelopes

closeup image of one of the multicolor abstract tipped in plates

1st page of the first poem - "Grammar" with text: Come and take my eyes, for I tire of complexity come and take my mouth for words are too subtle, gestures suffice

"3 Poems On Unbeing" a small 8-page poetry chapbook with an original acrylic painted tipped in frontispiece plate. Handsewn in enclosing envelope. Print run of 10 copies, 9 available - aanpress.com/artworks/ (scroll to bottom of the page) #art #painting #poetry #booksky

Gel-plate monoprint with acrylic. Abstract swirls and blobs of color artfully arranged.

Gel-plate monoprint with acrylic. Abstract swirls and blobs of color artfully arranged.

Gel-plate monoprint with acrylic. Abstract swirls and blobs of color artfully arranged.

Gel-plate monoprint with acrylic. Abstract swirls and blobs of color artfully arranged.

New acrylic monoprints added - aanpress.com/artworks/. Have a browse and see if there is something you might like. All monoprints are originals and one of a kind. #art #painting #portfolioday

My sister and I accomplished the final responsibility and wishes of my mother today. Feeling lighter but tired too.

Dear author. Thank you for the slightly condescending passive aggressive reply to my email. I will take it under consideration next time you submit something.

cover to The Death of The Doom Patrol. Negative Man, Elastigirl and Robotman stand sadly over their gravestones. Niles Caulder looks on in sadness in his wheelchair. A bloody red tree branch reaches for them all.

now reading

bright yellow turmeric liquid painted on sheets of watercolor paper

finsihed print, developed with baking soda and water. taken on a red/orange hue, can plainly see the petals

pressed flowers laid on top of tumeric sheets out in the sun

finished images developed in baking soda and water. taken on red orange hues

well, who knew you could make solar prints with turmeric

Feeling old enough to start carrying hard candy and butterscotches around in my pocket.

Between work and the returning cold and the horrors of the idiot man baby, I think I am done for the day.

now reading - submission stories lots of submission stories. (The Delaney book was interesting if more a novella than a novel but that was its label back in the 60s. novellas hadn’t been invented yet, nor really doorstoppers like we have now)

I am at that gotta trust your editing instincts phase.

A Matchbox car forklift and HO scale warehouse figures have a bit of a spat over some issue as they unpack wildly out of scale books from a box.

Cover to the book: an arabian/asian architectually inspired city stronghold sits on a dusky desert mountainside. A large gray spaceship is tethered to it by cables. At the bottom an exotic caravan is kicking up dust. All oranges and red under a mauve/blue sky.

Tiny Forklift and the Crew are unpacking the newly arrived copies of "The Glorious Melancholy of Urgency" (now available for order - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...). Stories by @mteasdalewriter.bsky.social @dango-ramen.bsky.social, E J Delaney, and Sydney Sackett #sf #book #booksky

delivered at 7:10pm. rolls eyes

Two hours, 15 minutes later and back to two blocks away. Almost nearly where they were.

yup currently drove about five miles away.

UPS, whom I passionately dislike, has my book order literally 2 blocks away (4:43pm) on the map. I will probably not see the boxes until 7pm. Let's time it shall we.