Web Publisher's Greetings
Welcome.
Or welcome back, as the case may be
This'd be jmcptimps, which stands for as per here. As for what it is, that'd be here whereas why it is, that's simple. Ran out of web space for PHANTACEA on the Web didn't I.
It's still there, though. Plenty of lynx to it, too, at least there are on every page I've put up thus far. That's because, until I built this one, and the template that goes with it, they were all taken from my afore-linked first website.
What you have here, besides the Autumn 2008 update of same, is the start of a whole new look for this website. I also hope to eventually do a ditto to my afore-linked first website as well as my third and perhaps most important website: www.phantacea.com (Most important due to the fact it's the closest I come to deriving income from any of my various web-presences.)
In case you haven't accepted the invite so prominently placed at the top of this page and popped by phantacea.com for a lengthy go-round, it's the first site exclusively dedicated to PHANTACEA Mythos print publications.
Along with more and more excerpts from the novel, you'll find a largish number (more than a dozen by now, I reckon) of character and/or concept collages prepared specifically for it.
They're sprinkled nearly everywhere you go over there. Stacks of mainly different ones also liven up PHANTACEA on the Web. Most of the former currently link from here while many of the latter link from here.
There's an illustrated web-primer in both sites (timps has one too) but, just to timp-tempt you, I've included a sampling of them at the top of this very page.
In terms of trapants, as I long ago nicknamed the timp-aspect of pH-Webworld, this edition is notable for more than a new look. Recall me mentioning an Italian fellow I first came across back in January 2003 in Antigua Guatemala, the one whose name was not Maximon (ma-SHEE-mon)? Well, if you don't , I did - in the last two timps (which are here and here, if you're curious).
To save you an unnecessary click or two, Maximon's a modern-day Mayan demigod who looks something like this. (That isn't the mask I was referring to in the two previous timp-commentaries, the one that resided in my big bag throughout the El Returno trip. Neither is this,
or this, though they're of a type -- a once partially alive, as in goatish, type.)
As for our multilingual Max (actuallly Massimo) I have to admit, never having seen nor heard from him again, I still haven't decided if he was an embodiment of that Max, the Maximon-trickster, taking a quick, havoc-packed tour of Central America perhaps to check out how fares his indigenous devotees.
At any rate, the (condensed) email version of my fraught first week in his company begins here. Be a ghost and have a boo. Unless of course you'd prefer to be goose and have a gander.
Just bye the bye, yes, that page does look much like this one. So does the not so Turkish deIightful page I retrieved and re-mounted last time. The reason for that is all three are built using the same template and stylesheet.
Ah, the marvels of html. Too bad it's already being replaced. Nonetheless, it continues to do its stuff -- simplistically enough for even a head-in-the-sands computer- troglodyte like me to use.
As with all the other timps linked from here and here, they're replete with pounds of pictures. And by that I mean, ever so cleverly, that each and every one of them have a pound sign (#) and attendant designation attached to it code-wise. This results in taking you to a graphics gallery with notes on the pictures' providence, as it were, just like this one.
What sets this one, and its near twin over on the 'guat2nickMax1.html' page, apart from, thus far, all the other timp-pages is another innovation I'm trying out, one I didn't have enough web-space for on my afore-linked first website. Double-click on any of the thumbnails in the graphics gallery for a, um, graphic demonstration.
Pretty neat, huh? For a self-proclaimed trogg, the answer's affirmative.
So, where am I going next -- either physically or web-wise? Haven't decided, sooth said. I've got to polish off my next PHANTACEA Mythos print publication for one thing.
Speaking of which, don't forget to either buy, via endlessly afore-linked here, or else email in your order(s) for "Feeling Theocidal".
The more there are the merrier, and more travelled, I become. JMcP
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