Tim Brookes

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...
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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...
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Helen did a GREAT interview. Check it out.

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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!

He did the cleaning BEFORE burning the toast and the popcorn? Priorities!

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….

About half the carvings in my Fond Farewell Moving Sale have been snapped up. If you're interested, you'd better hurry over to www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w... toot sweet.

Tim Brookes' New Book, By Hand, Explores the Impact of Handwriting on Community and Language Preservation | MultiLingual Is handwriting about to become a lost art in the United States? Award-winning author Tim Brookes tackles this question in his new book.

Check this out! multilingual.com/tim-brookes-...

Reviewers! My new book By Hand, an exploration of the value of the handwritten word, will be back from the printers in time for the pub date of 11/15. If you would like me to send you a copy of the digital edition for review purposes, let me know and I'll send one out stat.

Just added to my extended moving sale: A carpe diem proverb in Tai Tham. Walnut, roughly 48"x 14." One fascinating feature of this carving is that one of the panels has a bullet embedded in it, presumably fired into the tree before it was cut down. www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w...

Reminder: I'm moving back to England, so I need to lighten my load even more, and I'm winnowing down my collection of carvings and Alphabets merchandise still farther. This is, of course, good news for you. Check out the bargains at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w... and please share!

I'm moving back to England, so I need to lighten my load even more, and I'm winnowing down my collection of carvings and Alphabets merchandise still farther. This is, of course, good news for you. Check out the bargains at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/10/31/w... and please share!

Oh dear. I'll look into it....

Script Keepers Network – Safeguarding Scripts Script Keepers Network Unites People To Protect And Revitalize The World’s Endangered Writing Systems.

Great news! Thanks to Esteban Kong, the Script Keeper Network website is up and running at www.scriptkeepers.org. It will fill out and enrich over the coming weeks, but check it out to see what we have begun!

Just a reminder that this exhibition is already in motion in The Hague. I'm going to be speaking here on October 26th about this and that, with startling f=references to Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner and questions about "Where Does Writing Come From?" www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/...

This is the view you could have had this morning if you had bought our house, NOW REDUCED BY $25,000. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

If you are interested in our summit but can't make the event, (a) it will be recorded and (b) you can submit a question or comment ahead of time to tim@endangeredalphabets.com. But if you can make it, register free at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...