Set during the Dot-Bomb era of rolling blackouts and layoffs in Silicon Valley, the debut novel by Roderick Maclean glimmers with tales of supply room creatures, television fanatics, office poets, golf gurus, Moose Lodge legacies, and unadulterated condo bliss.

Little known facts about the how the novel Tropic/of/Cubicle is sooooo frickin' corporate:

1. It was bound with used hanging file folders "reclaimed" from corporate file cabinets.

2. It was laid out using generic office productivity software, i.e. MS Word and Adobe Acrobat.

3. It was typeset using three of the most popular business fonts: Times New Roman, Courier New, and Tahoma.

4. The title and author text on the spine is printed on office shipping labels.

5. It was furtively printed on a corporate Canon Imagerunner after hours.

A few other, non-corporate, details: the book is handbound, the cover features a two ink silkscreen image, its pages are of a very high-quality stock (we just couldn't bring ourselves to go with generic white laser paper), and it's 219 pages in length. So, given that each cover has slightly different wear and (mostly) greenish coloration and is cut and silkscreened by hand, and each book is handbound, this means that every copy of Tropic/of/Cubicle is absolutely unique. All of this is thanks, of course, to my bookbinder and publisher Drew Burk at Spork Press.