Ariadne

HEaR is all set to be released this weekend. Are you ready? Have you gotten your pre-orders in? Because I am all ready for you to have the chance to read it! In fact, I'm a little too ready, probably, since I want to dedicate this post to something beyond book number three . . . Is it too soon to talk about other projects that are in the works? No? Great!

As I've mentioned before, I have a pretty packed publishing schedule for this year. The current plan is to release 1 book each quarter in 2022. All of the books are written (though we've learned I will re-work a manuscript even a month before publishing, so they still might get beefed up a bit), but they are each at different stages of editing and such. Even so, after HEaR, the next release isn't actually going to be full-scale book and you shouldn’t be waiting two more months either.

Have you ever heard of chapbooks?

Here's a quick rundown in case you haven't: Chapbooks are short collections of poetry that usually are around sixty poems or less. As you may know, poetry has never been a particularly popular genre of books, so publishers have long been wary of accepting manuscripts. And historically, back when printing was so expensive, that rang even more true. So what did poets do? They made chapbooks. By hand. And lots of them. In fact, you could say that poets have a very long legacy of self-publishing and distributing their work for themselves.

Thus far, all of my manuscripts have been safely out of the chapbook poem count, but I decided to try something. As I’ve been promising for a while now, I would like to get my newsletter going and I wanted something to give to those who subscribe. (Bribery is also a historically accurate motivator. 💁🏻‍♀️) So I started working on a chapbook. It’s not finished yet, but I’m enthusiastically thinking it will be completed before February is done. While it won’t be a physical book, it will be a short ebook that can also serve as an intro of sorts to my style.

And, best yet, it’ll be free!

I’ve been hinting and teasing about this for a while now, but I figured now is as good a time as any to break the news. So keep an eye out around the end of February and you can get both a free chapbook and subscribe to a cool (hopefully) newsletter in one go. 😬 And, yes, the name of the ebook is Ariadne. But I’ll explain that title choice another day . . .

For now, you’ll have to settle for my old new book (just kidding, I love this book and I hope you will too!), HEaR which is set to be released this Sunday. Get your pre-orders in now by clicking this link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/173632554X/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_173632554x