August 2nd, 2010 / 9:58 am
 Author News & Web Hype

The Word Made Flesh Mobilizes on Multiple Fronts

Just about one year to the day (7/24/09) from when the idea was launched from this very blog, The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide is an imminent reality. The book–a full-color photo-anthology co-edited by Eva Talmadge and yours truly–will hit stores in October. You’ll be hearing plenty more about it then (we hope), but in the meantime I wanted to let folks know that we now have a website up and running at tattoolit.com. The site–which is primarily a tumblr–updates daily with re-blogs of literary tattoos from around the web that we find, literary quotations that seem like they might be worth writing on your body forever, and in the future will also have some previews/excerpts from the book itself, a book trailer, and whatever else we think of. You can also follow TattooLit on Twitter (the Twitterfeed streams to the website, but please don’t let this stop you from following it). Also^2, there’s the Facebook page.  Also^3, even though the book is finished, we’d be glad to post a picture of your literary tattoo on any and all of the above-mentioned, so if you have one or are getting one, please feel free & encouraged to send them our way.

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12 Comments

  1. August 2nd, 2010 / 10:09 am Andrew—

      Looking forward to it, Justin.

  2. August 2nd, 2010 / 10:59 am Richard—
  3. August 2nd, 2010 / 1:46 pm Gian—

      This is going to be great.

  4. August 2nd, 2010 / 2:09 pm Andrew—

      Looking forward to it, Justin.

  5. August 2nd, 2010 / 2:59 pm Richard—
  6. August 2nd, 2010 / 5:46 pm Gian—

      This is going to be great.

  7. August 2nd, 2010 / 7:44 pm Justin Taylor—

      You betcha, Richard- in fact, there’s a section on her project in the book.

  8. August 2nd, 2010 / 11:44 pm Justin Taylor—

      You betcha, Richard- in fact, there’s a section on her project in the book.

  9. August 3rd, 2010 / 12:38 am Ken Baumann—

      Very excited. Subscribed to the blog.

  10. August 3rd, 2010 / 1:43 am Pemulis—

      Don’t do it, people! There’s an IPhone app that slaps tattoos on your arms (and other areas) for free.

  11. August 3rd, 2010 / 4:38 am Ken Baumann—

      Very excited. Subscribed to the blog.

  12. August 3rd, 2010 / 5:43 am Pemulis—

      Don’t do it, people! There’s an IPhone app that slaps tattoos on your arms (and other areas) for free.