I have, for a fairly long time now, had the idea to publish a book of my creative works produced over the past 25 or 30 years. This might include poetry, or photography, or short stories, or columns, or essays, or maybe even artwork.<\/p>\n
In the past year, I have been the publisher of two “chapbooks”:
\n—Blue Devils<\/i><\/b>, a collection of poetry and stories by members of the (now defunct?) Toronto Dark Writers Group, published especially for Convergence VIII in Montreal;
\n—Buy My Chapbook …one more time<\/i><\/b> by Timothy Carter, a collection of short stories and essays previously published in The Zero Card<\/i>.<\/p>\n
The struggle I’m having at the moment is trying to decide:
\n—A)<\/b> what works to include;
\n—A)<\/b> what type of book to produce… something small like a chapbook, or something large like a coffee table book, or something in between like a really nice trade paperback.<\/p>\n
The Small Press Fair is coming up next month, and while there’s absolutely no way I could put something together in time for that, it might be nice to have a mock-up for a preview to see what kind of public response it would get.<\/p>\n
We have a saying in the publishing game: “If your friends won’t buy your book, who will?”<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have, for a fairly long time now, had the idea to publish a book of my creative works produced over the past 25 or 30 years. This might include poetry, or photography, or short stories, or columns, or essays, … Continue reading