They say any idiot can publish a book these days, and to prove that’s true my book “Acrostica I” is now available on Amazon. “What’s an Acrostica?” you ask. Well, funny you should ask because I’m here to tell you.
Everybody knows about crossword puzzles but acrostic puzzles are a bit more obscure. Invented by Elizabeth Kingsley in 1934, there has been a small but devout following ever since. Acrostic puzzles today can be found periodically in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. I began writing them over ten years ago, and five years ago started my own website acrostica.com to display them and allow visitors to solve them. Check them out!
I’ve put fifty puzzles into my first volume of acrostic puzzles, titled “Acrostica I” published by Pocamug Press.
Update (December 2018): There are now six volumes and more coming in 2019 if all goes well! Thank you if you’ve purchased one (or more)!
I’m now working on #5, having made my way (with my wife’s excellent assistance, I must add) through the first four. Any chance of perforated pages in #6ff.–to facilitate work on flat surfaces (the books’ covers, e.g.) in out-of-the-way places such as the bathroom?
The printers I’m working with don’t have an option for perforations, but more importantly, in volume 6 there are a couple of puzzles that are so big they take up two pages! So, in short, no, sorry.
Michael, Rich Haag here. Just bought all 5 volumes of your crostics (yeah, I’m addicted, so what?) Anyway, first volume, puzzle 16: I feel like I have the wrong clue page to the wrong puzzle and I can’t believe they’re all typos. I’d like to hear from you if you’ve got the time. Meanwhile I’ll go on to #17. Best wishes for the holidays
Rich
Thanks for pointing that out, Rich. I’ve made the correction now, and I’m going to send you a copy of Volume Six as a thank-you. And yes, I realize I’m enabling your addiction!