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76 lines
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<[Saalon]> Should I buy this one, or is it worth waiting for your final copy? I don't want some special edition director's cut coming out three weeks after I buy this one. ::grin::
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<[Brennen]> See, the spin I ''really'' oughta put on this is that right now is your opportunity to own a limited edition preview release.
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This is the difference it will make:
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* The title might be different if I think of something less stupid.
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* There'll be some more text on the copyright/intro page, where publisher info and that sort of thing usually goes.
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* I'll put something on the back cover.
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* If there are any typos left, I'll fix them. I don't know how there could be any typos left, but there is probably at least one.
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<[Anonymous]> I'm curious -- how much did this whole thing cost to publish? Are you getting a percentage of the sales?
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<[Brennen]> "Publish" is probably the wrong word; [http://www.lulu.com Lulu.com] is a PrintOnDemand service; you upload some files and they'll turn 'em into a book.
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Since I haven't (yet) purchased an ISBN number, I haven't had any up-front costs with Lulu. The downside of this model is that, because each order is printed individually (which usually means one book at a time), and because Lulu wants to make a profit, there's a fairly high per-book cost.
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So, frex, ''unrequired poetry'' (iffy title still subject to change) is $10.05. Out of that, $6.05 is production cost, Lulu takes an $0.80 commission, and we wind up with $3.20. I've also got an option to buy books at "cost", and if it's a sizable enough order there're discounts, but I think I'll shop around before I get a substantial number of these printed. Lulu's just one of the easier / more reputable options.
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<[caeb]> By the way, did that "pebble in your pocket" poem ever get touched up?
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I know I'm all late about asking, but there you go.
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p.s.: Very nice.
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<[Brennen]> That's a good question. Let me find the relevant bit of the file.
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pebble in your pocket
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from a driveway in nebraska
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reminds you some days
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of small things left unresolved.
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found feathers dusty as rain
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dances that never brought down
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lightning, moldy bread
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plastic-wrapped on
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countertops and
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waiting. wine gone
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vinegar sour, the
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materials of an
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unshared communion,
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the broken nest
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in april,
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the spring
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day lilac-scent missing
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knitted cuff of the second mitten,
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and her hand in yours (it was
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august).
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they gather weight like
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freezing fog, shaken off by
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northern winds--
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caught at rest in folds of jacket.
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perhaps they are not
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so small after all.
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Does that look right?
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<[caeb]> We're still losing people on the lilacs line, and I don't know what to do about it.
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<[caeb]> Also, H. suggests "Wrote" for a title.
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<[Brennen]> "spring day's dead lilacs?" We might just have to let it go.
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<[caeb]> "spring day in absence of lilac scent"? Our problem is we like lots of words too much. I think even when we're not acting like it, it shows.
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<[caeb]> (I realize it doesn't matter over-much, but it's a Thing.)
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<[caeb]> Dad says skip the nest and lilacs, and go straight to the mitten. I am feeling like an idiot for not thinking of that.
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<[Saalon]> ...listening to poets talk makes me feel dumb, somehow. As a story-centric prose writer (and reader, for that matter), discussions of losing people at a specific line leaves me scratching me head. I really, really don't get poetry at all.
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Is there a "dumb" tag in HTML I can surround this comment with?
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<[Brennen]> I think it's entirely a function of scale. A short poem, probably even more than something like a song, lives or dies on one or two lines.
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