It is year-end sale time at Smashwords. This means that all Smashwords e-book editions of my poetry collections and are 75% off until January 1, 2021. My discounted ebooks can be found at https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/kevinjoconner. Thanks for playing! (20 December 2020)
Tag: books
Another small update 8/1/2018
Pages for the rest of my poetry books are now live. As I mentioned in my previous update, you will now see a Books link in the main navigation menu of the site, with a dropdown menu: The Lilac Years 8: Eight-word Poems This Is Not the Book That Will Save Your Life …but for [...]
Small update 7/30/2018
It’s too hot today to do much of anything else, so I have begun the task of reviving and re-creating the pages for my books. You will see a Books link in the main navigation menu, with a dropdown menu with links to the books I have added so far: 8: Eight-word Poems This Is [...]
Recent reading
Between bouts of worrying about everything going to shit, I have managed to do some reading. Books I have finished (yay!) M Train—Patti Smith sublime subliminal liminal—Rena Priest view with a grain of sand: selected poems—Wisław Szymborska Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeus Różewicz—Tadeus Różewicz Two-Minute Mysteries Collection—Donald J. Sobol Books in progress The Book of [...]
A small change in my reading habits
I have a small problem: I have a veritable stack of books (they’d be an actual stack if I actually stacked them) that I have bought, but not yet read. This has been going on for several years, to the point where I will go through my unread stack a couple of times a year, [...]
Smashwords e-books 50% off now through January 1st
Well, I did not get the notice of the promotion from Smashwords until today—but I have entered my books now. This means that all Smashwords e-book editions of my poetry collections and Love Notes to the Days of the Week books are 50% off through New Year’s Day. The discount should be automatically included when you [...]
The validity of best-of lists
I spotted this on Twitter earlier this afternoon: I can understand the poster’s frustration, but this suggestion seems entirely useless. Why? Well, I have some thoughts on that. For one thing, I doubt that anyone who reads year-end ‘best-of’ lists does so under the misconception that the critics compiling them had read every single book (or [...]
My contributions to the culture, 2017
As we head into the final month of this dumpster fire of a year—all feast or famine, with bouts of depression, more car problems, having to rebuild my website, and general disgust with the state of the world—I need to step back for a moment and reflect on the things I was able to accomplish. [...]
For your ‘Cyber Monday’ shopping consideration
Now that we have entered the official year-end shopping season, I submit the following for your consideration: My most recent books ‘Dear Thursday…’ Love Notes to the Days of the Week, Volume Four https://ordinaryaveragethoughts.wordpress.com/2017/11/16/dear-thursday-pre-order-links/ 8: Eight-word Poems https://ordinaryaveragethoughts.wordpress.com/2017/10/20/8-eight-word-poems-now-in-the-marketplace/ https://ordinaryaveragethoughts.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/8-eight-word-poems-e-book-edition-available-now/ This Is Not the Book That Will Save Your Life https://www.kevinjoconner.com/index.php/this-is-not-the-book-that-will-save-your-life/ For the rest of my [...]
Recent reading
For a long time, I have had trouble taking the time to sit and read. I’m not one of those folks who doesn’t read—but, unless the book is non-fiction, there’s always that internalized voice telling me that I should be doing ‘something more productive’. Recently, however, I have been trying to change that. I started [...]
Ordinary Average Thoughts 