Since I am still working out a couple of persistent printing problems with the interior, I have pushed back the publication/on-sale date of The Lilac Years to April 16, 2018. This will give me enough time to make any changes necessary to eliminate or work around the problems I have encountered. In the meantime, here again is [...]
I have ordered printed proofs of The Lilac Years; I hope to have them in hand within the next couple of weeks. More to come… (8 February 2018)
Moments ago, I uploaded the cover and interior PDFs of The Lilac Years for review. Scheduled release date: March 16, 2018. Here is a look at the cover—front, back, and spine: Including front and back matter, it comes to a total of 214 pages. Retail price will be $20. As shown on the back cover, [...]
Here is my latest draft of the front cover for The Lilac Years: I came up with this about two or three weeks back for another project; since I never submitted that iteration for consideration, I decided to appropriate it for my own nefarious purposes. I still like my ‘old’ design, but the simplicity of this [...]
I have continued to take it slow with The Lilac Years. Time for an update… I have made numerous small edits over the last few weeks, but today I did something unusual (for me): I cut an entire section. Normally, I will have one section devoted to poems that address topical subjects. The Lilac Years was to [...]
I have been making an effort to proceed slowly with The Lilac Years. It has not been easy—once I start a new book, my inclination is to get it out into the world before I change my mind—but I am staying the course, as they used to say. Part of this I can attribute to my [...]
Here is my latest draft of the cover for The Lilac Years: I had placeholder text on the back that I needed to replace with something. Rather than add a blurb, preview one of the poems, or keep it all minimalist and get rid of the text altogether, I decided to add the list of words. [...]
This time I decided not to procrastinate: ‘Dear Wednesday…’, the next volume in the Love Notes to the Days of the Week series, is under way. I have just finished uploading the PDFs to CreateSpace for review. I sped things up this time by: (a) starting on it now, instead of next February or March; and [...]
Today marks the end of the third year of my ‘love notes’ to the days of the week. Yes—what started as an expression of frustration on a Monday became a project that is still going strong. I published the first 365 entries as ‘Dear Monday…’; the second year’s entries became ‘Dear Tuesday…’. Naturally, the next volume will be ‘Dear [...]
Here is the cover art for my next collection of poems. The photo was shot on my phone, and edited (levels, curves, sharpening, crop, RGB-to-CMYK conversion) in Photoshop. The typeface is Compacta Bold BT. If it looks vaguely familiar, that's because it figured prominently on album and singles covers by The KLF. More to come… [...]
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