The RikVerse
The RikVerse website is a living book of poems, regularly revised and updated with new work as the muse I ride sees fit
22 Facets of my Father
A set of poems loosely inspired by the Major Arcana tarot cards, investigating the relationship between a father and a son.
hardcopy: £2.49 + p&p
Play Time
These 22 poems are some of my earlier work, from the poems that survived the post-puberty bonfire up to around the turn of the century.
hardcopy: £2.49 + p&p
From Each Skull, A Story
None of the people described in these poems are real – they've all emerged fully formed from my imagination. Feel free to draw whatever conclusions you like from this admission.
hardcopy: £1.99 + p&p
Poems to Quote to your Lover
In this collection, I am proud to present you with some love. These poems deal with loves and relationships in all their wonderful and woeful manifestations.
hardcopy: £1.99 + p&p
The RikVerse: volume 1
Includes all four of the above chapbooks, at half the price!
hardcopy: £4.99 + p&p
The RikVerse Website
The Kalieda Encyclopaedia
The Rikweb forum
Rik's Issuu page
Bugger!
ReplyDeleteYes, the insides have been proofread - any spelling errors therein are personal quirks.
re the Gevey - the answer to that is on this very blog!
Rik
Interesting that you accuse yourself of "vanity publishing".
ReplyDeleteIt sounds to me like a grey area. Your website publishing isn't vanity puiblishing - it's self-publishing. Doing it yourself has never been thought of as a negative tactic. Vanity publishing involves shelling out money for a publisher to produce a book for you.
However, while you appear to be doing that at Lulu, it's a produce-on-demand arrangement. Traditional vanity publishing involved paying a publisher money (usually a lot) for printing a minimum number of copies, usually several hundred.
This is a bit different. Maybe it's going to be the only way for something as unfashionable as poetry to find an audience - at least for most poets.
Of course, I'll pay for anything if it's good (I've no doubt of that in this case)! Let us know how the book is when you get your proof copy. It would be nice to read your stuff on paper.
Rob - thanks for the comments.
ReplyDeleteWhat I mean by "vanity publishing" is the money I spent on acquiring the ISBN No and the distribution arrangements which will (eventually) allow people to buy the book from amazon.co.uk, or even walk into a bricks 'n' mortar bookshop and order a copy through the bookshop's ordering database. That's a service you don't usually have to pay for if you go down the traditional route, and one that I didn't need to purchase if I was just happy to have people buy the book from the lulu.com website. That part of the deal is pure vanity for me - I wanted an ISBN No to somehow validate the book's right to be considered properly published.
More on my adventures in PODland in the next post ...
Mine came today. I don't know if you check old comments, but I've posted another plug for it on my blog.
ReplyDeleteCheers.