Book Announcement & Launch info
This posting has two purposes – to let you know that we are now taking advanced orders of my 2nd book, but also, if you keep on reading, to let you know there will be a book launch held in Edinburgh on the 1st of November! So please keep on reading :-)
I’m pleased to announce that we are now taking advanced orders for my 2nd book:
If you wish to secure a limited edition version of the book – there are three versions that come with a print.
We’re also offering free postage (for a limited time) on the first book.
If you’d like to see some previews of the book, please go here.
For buying, please go to the halflightpress.com website’s store to view the book options (there are quite a few and one of them in particular is very limited!).
The above image shows the book with the cloth slipcase. I’ve had 300 copies of the book printed with the slipcase, and a few of these editions are tied up with the limited edition print run, so we only have 135 slipcase editions to sell on their own without prints.
Above you can see my intro page to the entire book. The book has a very strong theme about shooting during the nocturnal hours, and is less a tutorial and more a monograph with beautifully printed plates as you can see on this image below:
The book has been an evolutionary project. I first thought I’d completed the layout and content for the book in January of this year. But I think most creative things have their own lifespan, and a knack of growing into something else over time. That was certainly the case with this book.
I remember getting a very touching email from Ragnar Axelsson. He’s quite a bit of a special soul I feel, and the content of his email became the introduction to the book. He set the tone and I found myself re-writing and drafting new texts which were more in line with his train of thought. The book took on more dreamlike quality, being filled with reflective essays on my experiences of photographing in Iceland. It’s a very absorbing landscape to spend time in.
There will be a book launch on the 1st of November here in Edinburgh. I do hope you can make it. We will have wine and some snacks for everyone, and there will be a small half hour slide presentation by myself about the making of some of the images with stories behind them.
Hi Bruce – This looks like it will be another wonderful book and I wish you the best of success with it. I already placed my order! ….Steve
Comment by Steve N — 18 September, 2012 @ 8:59 am
Hi Steve,
Thanks for the kind words.
Sales are already outpacing the first book, and the limited edition print variants are doing better too!
Kind Regards,
Bruce.
Comment by Bruce Percy — 18 September, 2012 @ 5:50 pm
Looking forward to seeing you again on Nov 1st. Pretty sure I can make it but if I don’t I hope it all goes well for you. All best, Omer.
Comment by Omer — 18 September, 2012 @ 8:07 pm
Hi Omer,
Would be great to see you again. I hope maybe next year to hold an exhibition, but time was really short for me this time. It seems to be the rarest thing I have at my disposal these days.
I think Niall is coming through to help me ship the first round of books, which has already done much better than my first book did on it’s first day of sale.
Comment by Bruce Percy — 18 September, 2012 @ 8:19 pm
PS Just booked the triptych edition so feeling pleased with myself!
Comment by Omer — 18 September, 2012 @ 8:19 pm
Thanks Omer, it’s the edition that’s selling the most so far. Would be nice if it sells out by the end of the week…… he he :-)
Comment by Bruce Percy — 18 September, 2012 @ 8:26 pm
Any chance we can have a pdf e-book, while we wait for the real thing to be shipped ? I may have to wait until Xmas !!
Comment by ian s — 19 September, 2012 @ 7:42 pm
Hi Ian,
Well that might be counterproductive to the actual book on many levels, so I’m afraid there won’t be a PDF version of it for quite some time. My main focus is to ensure the hardback edition sells :-)
Comment by Bruce Percy — 20 September, 2012 @ 1:02 am
Bruce, This new book looks great. Looking forward to receiving the Deluxe book set. Cheers, Guy
Comment by Guy — 20 September, 2012 @ 2:22 am
I meant for those of us who have already ordered (and paid) for the hardback version…
Comment by ian s — 20 September, 2012 @ 6:37 pm
Hi Ian,
Well I certainly appreciate your enthusiasm, but apart from the lack of time to produce a PDF for folks who’ve pre-ordered the book, I feel it would spoil the enjoyment…. so I’ll take your comments as encouragement that you’re eager for the new book – which is a monograph by the way. And will be shipping out your copy just before the 1st of November.
Comment by Bruce Percy — 21 September, 2012 @ 1:37 pm