The Pains

Here comes "The Pains," by me, John Damien Sundman, with illustrations by Matthew Frederick Davis Hemming, known to some k3vvl kiDz on teh intarweb as Sir Cheeseburger Brown. Feel free to read, save, print, copy and share among your friends.

This book is way off schedule. Sometimes stuff happens, and since I announced The Pains, stuff has happened in giant bucketsfull. However, the book is coming along. Originally I promised it for Summer, 2006. Ooops. Now it's looking more like March, 2007.

When you purchase the printed book—available late spring, 2007 — I think you will find the format much nicer and easier to read. And also Cheeseburger & I will make some money, and I think we'll all feel good about that, won't we? Which, while we're on the subject, "pre-ordering" is really the way to go.

We're starting with Chapters 1 and 2. More will follow as soon as I can manage.

Update Feb 13 2007. Hey Look! I put up a third chapter! Will wonders never cease!

UPDATE NOVEMBER 6, 2007: Well, chapters 4 and 5 are up now. Oddly enough, an earlier edit to this very index file seems to have been lost in the process and with it some of the real-time history of the project, not quite sure what's up with that, but in any event, suffice it to say that despite being way off schedule I've not at all given up on this book, and it will be done, OH YES, as Wayne Campbell would say, it will be done. I don't think I'll hazard a completion date, but I will remark that the pace of chapters being added has picked up again. End Update.

Starting with Chapter 3, attentive readers may notice some allusions to, and borrowing from, the work of the late Chis McKinstry, creator of the Mindpixel project. As far as I've been able to determine, there is no copyright holder. I'll have more to say about this when the final book is prepared for publication, but for now I just want to make this acknowledgement.