Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a ‘book spine’ poem. This involves writing a poem using the titles of books on your bookshelf. My poem neatly divided itself into sections, based on where my books are shelved. Instead of numbering these sections, I have labelled them according to their approximate (relative) compass points. The book titles I used are listed in the tags.
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Separation Anxiety
Separation Anxiety on Wattpad
My first collection of poems, Separation Anxiety, is now available on Wattpad for your previewing and reading pleasure (albeit without the nifty Polaroids)! (If the link isn’t showing, go to https://www.wattpad.com/story/44219290-separation-anxiety-abridged.)
(8 July 2015)
Q&A: Why publish? (Part 2)
Another look at this one…
Smashwords coupons
This Wednesday, October 8th, I will be reading poems from my books at Shift Massage in Seattle—open house from 5:30 to 7, with my reading starting at around 6:30. To mark the event, I have generated coupon codes good for 50% off the price of the e-books (your choice of ePub or Kindle formats) on Smashwords. The code for Separation Anxiety is VR54S; the code for Journalism is GB82B.
Separation Anxiety
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/444694
Journalism
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/474249
The coupons are good through October 15th.
(5 October 2014)
Sometimes I get things done
Lots of stuff going on these days—or it feels that way, at least… Continue reading
Now on Amazon
Yes, I have taken the plunge. Separation Anxiety is now available on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Kevin-J-OConner/e/B00MGY80WS/
(6 August 2014)
Book Update: EBM
My first book, Separation Anxiety (ISBN 9781937358471), is now available in printed form from any book store with an Espresso Book Machine. An exception is the University Book Store in Seattle, since their EBM is down, but they should have a couple of copies in store, thanks to their arrangement with Powell’s. Continue reading
Soon…
Links aren’t in place yet—but I do have the first printed copies of the book itself…
(25 July 2014)
E-book update (Sometimes, things go smoothly…, part 2)
When I uploaded the e-book version of Separation Anxiety to Smashwords, the only version that I could be sure would look the way it was supposed to was the Kindle version. Both the iBooks reader and Adobe Digital Editions rendered the ePub file quite differently—and neither looked very good, quite frankly. Since the ePub file passed the validation process, however, there wasn’t much I could do; I simply had to trust that it would work the way it was supposed to.
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Sometimes, things go smoothly…
It now appears that I won’t have my copies of the print edition of my first book, Separation Anxiety, until early August. Continue reading
Ordinary Average Thoughts 