As usual, lacking in brevity, I answer “What do you want your book to look like?” with a meandering spiel, fumble ranking system, miscellaneous metaphors & publishing schemes
Thinking about which of many writing projects to finish next… meandering all the way, at home while a typhoon looms.
You see, I start lots of projects, but then don’t really “finish” to the point where I put them out into the world so, I think aloud about options while making a grading system that doesn’t really work, ergo:
- One-way tickets: a collection or continual narrative of travel/adventures (some drafts)
- Circumnavigation: free verse, poetry, diary, entries, snippets of letters (working, manuscript)
- Letters from Russia: mixed-media fictional epistolary lit (written & illustrated)
- January in Hot Springs: sudden poems with various visual interests (published in limited form) Plus
- Puncha essays on so many topics which definitely maybe don’t really go together, and
- Collection of short fiction stories, which are only vaguely personal
Oh shoot, missed “Uncle Weed’s Red Rock Adventure” Which is entirely written, illustrated, mostly scanned, and even has a foreword
Anyhow, Some pros and cons of publishing pathways, including: sending to publishers and waiting, doing print on demand, but ending up with ugly books, using a publishing services like Lulu or Blurb, but maybe having a hard time really selling, or, rather absurdly, paying for a print run of gorgeous books and selling direct, including edition numbers, inscription, commemorative postcard, bookmark.
Is this insane? Probably. Your thoughts please, all of your thoughts.
