FUTURE PROJECTS for High Productivity Publishing

This list is out of date and is archived. It will be replaced during the summer of 2004.

I am planning to publish a short book that reviews my “Bill of Rights 2” proposal in the light of 9-11. The book will also contain assorted materials on COPA (Child Online Protection Act) and the changes in the information technology workplace and job market. I am also working on a large-scale fictional screenplay treatment for the “Do Ask Do Tell” material in a way that would create the usual kind of narrative hooks and rooting interests (the “commercial plot skeleton”) necessary to appeal to a large audience. I cannot give further details right now.

Below are my earlier proposals for future work.

-A-

The booklet, Our Fundamental Rights, due by September 1998. This opus will discuss our fundamental rights conceptually. With each right, it will delineate the possible range of roles for government. Some rights demand that we free ourselves from government police powers, but others seem to require government to protect us from each other and that government enable us to know when we can get into trouble with our own personal initiative. COMPLETED, DECEMBER 1998.

-B-

The novel, Tribunal and Rapture, due by New Years, 2002. This book will presume that we are debating the new Bill of Rights in Congress. Testimonials frame the interlocking stories of some very individualistic characters who tested the limits of their own realities and brought us all to a day of reckoning. The plot is set up like a Chinese puzzlebox.

We are considering Tribunal and Rapture as a series of up to five novellas (the middle three in the first person) and publishing in a series:

· The Fundamentalist

· Rain on the Snow

· Don’t Ask, Do Tell

· My Boy Matt

· The Truth about Aliens

-C-

A play “Do Ask Do Tell” based loosely on materials from the Do Ask, Do Tell: A Gay Conservative Lashes Back, by January 2001.

-D-

By October, 2000: A “libertarian” public policy and social and psychological research database. This is viewed as a collection of tables providing information about a number of subtle policy issues, such as

· Gay issues (gays in the military, same-sex marriage, gay parents)

· “Family values” and the social tension between those with kids and those without

· Eldercare

· Polarity, narcissism, “aesthetic realism”

· Intellectual property issues (free speech and commercial intent, trademark and domain names, right of publicity, Internet censorship, “pseudo e-commerce”)

· Self-defense and gun control

· Tort reform and freedom to contract

· Discrimination and private organizations

· Affirmative action and “preferences”

· Democracy and individual liberties

· Possible elimination of income taxes

Information would include such items as

· statement of a particular position

· supporting bibliographic reference (Internet, or printed, or broadcast media)

· cross-reference to other positions or issues

· supporting tables

In the beginning, such a service might be free, but eventually will be by subscription or for fee.

-E-

HPPUB is working with other businesses to set up a cooperative, just-in-time printing mechanism for some or all of its printed materials. Book manufacturing and distribution may in time be done by other businesses. Details will be available at obtain.htm.  

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