This site is no longer active, but does serves as a link to my other web logs. All new posts will bepublished at Knotbuchwerks, too (KBWt) or Knotbuchwerks (KBW). Link is: https://knotbuchwerkstoo.blogspot.com/ .
WHY KNOTBUCHWERKS
Over the past fifty years, I have written twenty books. This website is intended to provide information on the fifteen that are available. A list of the books each with its own synopsis can be found at KBWt.
The title of this web log is odd, intentionally so. I enjoy wordplay, and the sheer number of 'blogs' makes new titles hard to come by. KNOTBUCHWERKS originated with a rejection slip. Scrawled on the cover letter of my submission was this: ... 73 pages is too short for a book.
Samuel Beckett notwithstanding. Or sitting. Or lying prone.
The sixteen 'books' on my shelf---most of which are only 100 pages or so---were offended. They were no longer books. Now we know, they said, how Pluto felt. So ...
'Not books' became knotbooks---it is a tangled web we weave---became Knotbuch Publishing. I paused a good while over that word 'publishing.' Not the right word at all. Too highfalutin; and not what I intended for my knotbuchs. So ...
Knotbuch Publishing became Knotbuchwerks.
And for your edification: About 25% of English vocabulary has a Germanic origin (buch, werk); 45% comes from Latin-French infusions (flute); the remaining 30% is usually labeled 'native' and comes from a variety of sources. More or less.
