At the beginning of September, I published a book of poems. I'm still unsure how I feel about having personal thoughts "out there". I console myself with the thought that not many people read poetry anymore anyway, so the odds of anyone buying my book is slim. Two months in and I'm wondering if I was being honest with myself about not caring if anyone ever read them or not.
My mind is a funny thing.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't proud of myself. I'd be lying if I said that remaining unknown is perfectly fine.
I'm going to share some of those poems here at some point.
I don't want to make this blog all about the book but I do want to give it a wink and a nudge. I suspect that the first few posts will be book related and I do apologize, but I should be allowed that without feeling guilty. I self published and only told one person about it and have kept quiet ever since. I mean...what author does that?! Where's the launch party? Where's the press releases? I don't have the wherewithal to go through all that to be honest. So I'll manage in my own way.
I also want to write about the whole process of publishing via CreateSpace and what my experience was with them.
~Yarrow
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