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| Some cover and interior art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins for my new novel, now in pre-order |
Blurbs are in and are, well, downright fabulous... They'll be trickling out soon.
Heaps of shares on social media, but I'm still thinking I'm the Queen Ignoramus of Marketing. If you're a friend to my books, please share the news and any images you like, on blogs or facebook or twitter or whatever you prefer (unless you are a Bartleby sort, in which case, please have a cup of tea and a lie-down.) And don't forget my still-new The Book of the Red King!
Ah yes, the Queen Ignoramus of Marketing. And yet there's that knowing look over the right shoulder. Not: I Am Lying but the much more teasing, I May Be Lying. More ways to sell a book, Horatio. And lo, Horatio does sell the story with enormous and gratifying results. Yeah, very ignoramic.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the truth is simply that poetry is impossible to spread in this age unless you write the Rupi Kaur sort of thing... But I don't. Perhaps I'm not doing it wrong; perhaps it's just not doable for most poetry books.
DeleteOr maybe Billy Collins is the model of what gets read in the academically-supported realm, which is the main arena for poets.
So maybe I'm not ignorant; maybe it's just the times. John Wilson mentioned in a review recently that the readers of the late "Books & Culture" were surveyed once, and that only 50% expressed interest in poetry. And that's a group focused on reading books!