I'm embracing "having a personality" as a writer. It actually seems to have helped me in recent submissions. So the etsy post is about as nutty as a cacao forest.
Please ask me anything about this book. Please ask me anything about learning how to make books. (DANG! It is not easy! And mostly boring!) I plan to continue publishing "books" of some sort similar to these, though I plan to make them more complex/bigger, as time goes on, simply because I invested so much in supplies that I feel I cannot justify using them once.
I had the idea to undertake this project about 7 months ago and I gave myself til the end of Q1 2015 to do it. I knew it would be hard and time consuming and I'd have to just take things one step at a time, slowly, over weekends.
I'm 4 days late, but here we are.
IF YOU LIVE AROUND HERE/ME/ARE GOING TO SEE ME, Please FUCK ETSY!, their trsx charges, and shipping charges, and PM me. It'll be $5 flat. I will happily, happily, sign a copy for anyone who would like me to.
My former college professor was all like "NEVER SELF PUBLISH AGAIN IT'S LOOKED DOWN ON. YOU'LL BE EMBARRASSED IN THE FUTURE."
I couldn't quite say it in the listing but fuck that and fuck that attitude. This is 2015. I can do what I want and if that's self-release a seriously thin tiny volume of poems that I wanted to send out into the world together, I'm going to do it. And if poetry editors are going to judge me for that then they clearly have spent too much time reading my bio and not my submission.
I'll make my own way.
Life has been exhausting and this project hasn't helped but it's one of the best parts of the exhaustion and work. I haven't been on here that much and probably still won't be for a while. But when things get right and I feel an even keel again, I promise, you have a great big long Pubski post to look forward to about the whole ding dang thang.
Also guys of course please no one feel obligated to buy. I doubt I'll sell 50 of these, that's about what I expected, and that's okay.
me too. Will be at US address in June and will send you 10US$ -- ask BLOB_CASTLE - I'm good for mailing cash!! btw, I will send you a copy of one of the anthologies I published -- long story.
If you want to get published in a magazine, write things for magazines. I would advise you to look for magazines or online journals that generally publish that sort of material, read them, and see what kind of content they are looking for. Then use that to guide your writing choices and style. Don't write one article and submit it a few places and expect that to work; I would say you probably will want to end up writing multiple articles, maybe even six or a dozen, and sending them all out (not at once though) to a ton of different publishers. Then again, before you do that, while you're checking out magazines that publish that sort of content, check their submission guidelines. Some magazines may not accept unsolicited submissions of work like that. Use that to guide your process as well. Sure, it can't hurt to start with blogs or a blog of your own, and yes start small, but I would worry about quality of writing and persistence, as opposed to building your resume. The first two will get you more published than the third. My book is a collection of poems, I think there are 7 or so, that are themed around graves. I don't know if it is easy to say what it is about. mk what is my book about?
I'll pm you my address and square cash you the $. Cool?
UPDATE: eightbitsamurai and steve you guys should both be fulfilled. galen I will fulfill & ship your book w/in 3 BD, if not today probably Monday tbh. thenewgreen - we talked and I got a shipping update too, should be able to ship today or Monday wasoxygen Meriadoc and mk - I have you down for 1 book each to deliver in DC on 4/24. lil - I believe you want me to ship to your US address so you can retrieve in - sadly - months! Can you please PM me your US address/confirm this? I assume if it's going to wait in a mailbox there is no urgent delivery/time priority? That is everyone I have on my list from Hubski. If I have missed someone please let me know via comment, mail etc. The listing will be up for some time so if anyone wants a copy, but can't/not at this exact moment, bookmark it and go back when you're ready! (maybe flagamuffin ?) THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR THE SUPPORT. I have been very touched. :)