It's really interesting 🤓

Price reduced! Anyone who joins my wonderful By Hand Book Club for the last three sessions (starting this Sunday) can do so at the cut price of $20--including a free digital copy of the book! Details at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/12/11/t...

Price reduced! Anyone who joins my wonderful By Hand Book Club for the last three sessions (starting this Sunday) can do so at the cut price of $20--including a free digital copy of the book! Deets at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/12/11/t...

Many thanks to Ron Charles of the Washington Post for his great review of my new book, By Hand: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

What do we stand to gain if we write by hand? What do we stand to lose if we don't? www.linkedin.com/pulse/advent...

How do you write a sneeze? A raspberry? World Endangered Writing Day (endangeredwriting.com) this coming Friday, would not be the same without a contest, with actual prizes, and this year's is a doozy. Check it out at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/01/19/t... Tell your friends!

A belated bday present came today: @timbrookes.bsky.social’s wonderful book celebrating human ingenuity and diversity. It’s well designed and well produced, too. A thing to admire. And provocative to boot!

Starting Sunday: the most interesting discussion group you'll ever join. We're going to explore the importance of the handwritten word in an age of AI and digital tools. Urgent. Complex. Passionate. For more details and to register, head over to www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/12/11/t...

Agreed! Thanks, my friend!

Starting Sunday: the most interesting discussion group you'll ever join. We're going to explore the importance of the handwritten word in an age of AI and digital tools. Urgent. Complex. Passionate. For more details and to register, head over to www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/12/11/t...

Have a look at this!!

ELEVENTH-HOUR CALL FOR BRILLIANT RESCUE PLANS Pangea, my largest sculpture (at 7'x7') was due to be donated to a university, but that has fallen through. I leave for the UK on Wednesday. How can it be rescued from the dump?

A lovely review of my new book By Hand by my friend the brilliant Pippa Steel--and news of other really interesting books, too.

I have TWO COPIES of the softcover edition of By Hand left, and collectively they are too heavy for me to take to England with me. Someone take them off my hands (literally)! www.endangeredalphabets.com/by-hand/

Well, isn't that a pretty sight! The Japanese edition of my Atlas of Endangered Alphabets is now out and about!

TWO URGENT REMINDERS 1. If you want a *signed* copy of my book By Hand, and live in North America, order it BY JAN 6th, before I leave. Orders: www.endangeredalphabets.com/by-hand/ ...and.....

Reminder: If you want a *signed* copy of my book By Hand, and live in North America, order it BY JAN 4th, before I leave. After that the estimable Alana Brown will handle fulfillment, and though I admire her, she's not authorized to sign my name! Orders: www.endangeredalphabets.com/by-hand/

Reminder: If you want a *signed* copy of my book By Hand, and live in North America, order it BY JAN 4th. After that the estimable Alana Brown will handle fulfillment, and though I admire her, she's not authorized to sign my name! Orders: endangeredalphabets.com/by-hand/

If you want a *signed* copy of my book By Hand, and live in North America, order it by Jan 6th. After that the estimable Alana Brown will handle fulfillment, and though I admire her, she's not authorized to sign my name! Orders: www.endangeredalphabets.com/by-hand/

Heads up! My very last live event in the U.S. (before I move back to the UK) will be on January 4 in Arlington, Vermont. Try to make it if you can--I'd love to see you in person! Please share!

Inexpensive last-minute gift for lovers of language and the art of writing--overseas?? Send them the digital edition of my new book By Hand! Details and ordering at www.endangeredalphabets.com/by-hand/

Only ten days left in my global handwriting contest to win a copy of my new book By Hand! See www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/11/22/g... for full details...

By my (perhaps optimistic) math, you have two more days to order your copy of By Hand if you want someone (such as yourself) to get it for Christmas.... www.endangeredalphabets.com/by-hand/

Couldn't have said it better myself!

Always willing to do time with you!

This is going to be fascinating! All are welcome - no need to be a seasoned asemic writer, I'm not.

Hey, asemics fans! This coming Sunday, 12/21, is my last online discussion group meeting of the year, and it will be an Asemics Summit. Spread the word! Bring your own work to show and discuss! Registration (free) is at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I had a fabulous time as usual with the Vocal Fries podcast team, talking about writing, AI, digitech and the future of the human race. Listen to it at www.buzzsprout.com/1930383/epis...

Looking forward to it!

As giving time approaches, please know that if you know anyone interested in writing, language, the impact of AI, the importance of the manual arts, or cultural survival, you might want to give them my new book By Hand. More info and orders at endangeredalphabets.com/by-hand/. Seriously.

Does anyone know of a language anywhere in the world that has two different words for writing done by hand and writing that is printed or created by mechanical/artificial means?

Hey, everyone. This is the LAST of my US carvings, the end of an era--"Believe in yourself" in classical Mongolian. 38" x 12" I can't take it with me to the UK--make me an offer! [email protected].

Reminder: you can WIN a copy of my new book By Hand in my global handwriting contest! The first entries are already coming it. Details at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/11/22/g... Spread the word!

Reminder: tomorrow (Sunday) at noon ET our online discussion group will consider the nature and benefits of handwriting. Register free at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I hate Black Friday, but I have goods to sell: three of my Farewell Final Four carvings, the last I will make in North America, have to leave this house before I do. All three are marked down. Details are at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/11/27/b... Please share!

Helen did a GREAT interview. Check it out.

Huge shout-out to Helen Zaltzman (a.k.a. The Allusionist) for one of the best and most perceptive interviews of my life. Her podcast is at theallusionist.org . We talked about my new book By Hand and the nature, benefits and important of handwriting. (By Hand is at endangeredalphabets.com/by-hand/ )

This gorgeous stuff is canarywood, which I’m going to turn into a hand-carved bench as the fourth of my Final Four carvings before I leave the US. This one has already been spoken for; the other three are still available. Check back through my feed to see them.

Reminder: you can WIN a copy of my new book By Hand in my global handwriting contest! Details at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/11/22/g... Spread the word!

Kinder words were never written.

The Italian edition of the Atlas of Endangered Alphabets is being launched by UTET Libri . Looks great!

The books are here! Time to start a-signing and a-sending! www.endangeredalphabets.com/by-hand/

My Fond Farewell Moving Sale ENDS TODAY. Check out the last few ridiculously-priced bargains at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w...

An entire industry would like you to believe that your handwriting is slow, inefficient, illegible, and ugly. Find out what you have to lose if you believe them in my new book By Hand. www.endangeredalphabets.com/by-hand/

My new book, By Hand, arrives from the printers today! So over the weekend I need to sign 150+ copies to send out--but I don't mind if you add to that number! Check it out and order at www.endangeredalphabets.com/by-hand/

Two of the final carvings I'm going to make as a farewell to America. In folded Mongolian script they say “Joy” and “Love”; the next will say “Peace.” Long and sturdy, in beautiful pau amarillo wood, they can be wall art or very, very special benches. Contact me if interested.

Great interview by Type Radio of The Hague in the Netherland, an excellent introduction to my work with the Endangered Alphabets Project. Check it out at typeradio.org#/573

Only ONE WEEK LEFT in my Fond Farewell Moving Sale. I've added some new items at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w... , so check them out--but soon!

Heads up! My moving sale will end on November 17th, when the movers arrive to pack up my stuff for shipping across the pond. I have added a couple more items, so check out the feast at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w...

This, one of my last 4 American carvings, is going to looking incredible. “Believe in yourself “ in Mongolian, and the wood is an incredible (but not endangered) hardwood called Chakte Viga, or orangeheart. Bear in mind it will be five times as colorful and vivid when finished….