What’s he Building in there #3

A few years ago on this blog I wrote a post called “What’s he building in there?” It came after a long break when I had written nothing. The title was taken from a song by Tom Waits. In it, Waits describes someone who is in his barn building something. The neighbours can hear the noises, nobody sees him to talk to. Everybody’s imagination runs riot with ideas as to what he is doing and their prejudices get the better of them. It’s a great song – worth a listen!

Well, I have been a bit quiet lately. Partly this is because the day job has been incredibly busy with a number of key projects coming to fruition. Also, I’ve been buried deep in creative mode and editing and publishing mode. I thought it might be useful to update on some of these projects.

Values Count – I have a manuscript ready to go about values based working. I’ve been preparing a self-published version of this book whilst also exploring another edition as part of a wider venture. The book is nearly there – just a  few tweaks to the cover and inside and it will be done. It will be of interest to coaches, people who are working on organisational development, and anyone who thinks that ethics and underpinning values are really important to the way that they work.Details will be available here on the website and I will send an email out to those who are on my subscribers list.

Blue: experiments in sound – there’s already an album worth of sound files on bandcamp which I shared some months ago. The book itself is with an artist who is working with me on designing it. Phillip Kingsbury is preparing some beautiful watercolours to complement the poems. I’m hoping this will be ready before the end of the year. I’m working up some plans for a print run of the book, and a limited edition of the book together with the CD and a postcard series of earlier linked poems.

It Begins Like This – my poetry collection from last year is still available on this site as a PDF download. A paperback edition is in the final stages of editing.

I’m also working on new ideas for book manuscripts, including a book on the application of Archetypes in the workplace, and a book on coaching approaches. Both of these books are well advanced. And the new collection of poems, “Hang Fire“, many of which are on a political theme, is underway. I have written about a third of that.

So …. that’s what I have been building over the last few months…

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