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It's official!

4/24/2013

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Echoes and I will be debuting at the Clockwork Alchemy Convention in San Jose, California on Memorial Day weekend, and I will be on a panel: CLASSIC VICTORIAN POETRY TODAY: The Awakening of Steampunk.  Oh my ... what have I done?

 It was I who proposed this panel, which was quickly accepted.  Now, that daunting feeling begins to course my veins again.  It's as if I see all the notes at once on a sheet of music before me, and not the tune.

Okay ... I take a breath ... and I try to focus on  the details in this situation:  I've ordered a case of Echoes to sell at my rented table, check.  My costume is decided on: a white lacy blouse with high-neck, one of my cameos, and a smart pair of slacks, check.  Applied for and received the requisite business license, check.  My business cards have already arrived, check.  What else...?

Ah yes, I need to prep for the panel.  And, what will that entail?  I am pretty well versed (pardon) on the mechanisms involved in my own writing, and I've been an avid Steamppunk fan since it's early Cyberppunk days in the 60's ... but how does that qualify me to run such a loaded panel?

Ah, but that is the point!  All I really need to do is to be myself, explain how i got here, and field whatever questions come my way.  I know the classics ... I learned to write by proxy from the great poets of rhyme and Iambic Pentameter ... and I have had to justify, to myself and to those who promote modernday prose, why the Neo-Victorian form of poetry is relevant today.  So, it's probable that I'll do just fine.

 In any case, I still have much to do in preparation for Clockwork Alchemy, but I now begin see the tune on the page a little more clearly.  Oh, and I'll be visiting the Nova Albion Steampunk Convention in Santa Clara, California this weekend ... which should help to clarify a few more of those musical notes.  
   



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Echoes is published!

4/17/2013

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I am happy to announce that, as of this morning, Echoes, Neo-Victorian Poetry, is published, and is available in both paperback and in ebook.  This is my first book of poetry.  I have written enough poems to fill a few more book, and will do so as time allows, but Echoes is being released first to coincide with a Steampunk event that I will be attending,  More on that soon, but today I am celebrating, and luxuriating in unadulterated joy.

You may note that this book is attributed to Janice T and Emily Thompson.  That is because I owe all of the layout and graphic design of Echoes to Emily.  Having designed and self-published her own book, Clockwork Twist, she was well able to help me with my book issues.  It is with swelling pride that I applaud and credit Emily for all of her hard work on both editions.  Thank you, Emily, for a job well done on Echoes!

So, there it is.  The days of merely handing out an occasional poem, from my printer to your hand, are over.  I now present an entire book of my verses to any and all takers via the regular commercial outlets.  I'll never become rich selling Echoes ... but that was never the point.
  


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Perhaps another week ...

4/14/2013

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Until now, the idea of publishing a book containing my poems was merely a whisper of a thought; a limp and sullen thing that languished in the deepest closet of my mind.  But now, I have a printer's "proof" of my new book, and Echoes, like a new babe, has at last been born!  Or so it felt to actually hold it in my hands the other day.

Now, Echoes and I find ourselves on the very cusp of a whole new experience as well.  We are to debut at the Clockwork Alchemy Convention in late May; I as poet and Echoes as an item available for purchase.  While at this convention I'll be on a panel titled Classical Victorian Poetry Today: The Awakening of Steampunk.

Now, we owned no title for the Steampunk genre that I so enjoyed from the sixties onward, but at every opportunity I latched onto it.  From the Jules Verne-inspired films,  to the Back to the Future trilogy, and Brisco County Jr ... there is quite an extensive list of Steampunk's influence on me.

I mention this because, as it turns out, my poems are in a sub-set  of Steampunk, and  I can, to some degree, consider myself a Steampunk poet.  This did not even occur to me until very recently, but soon I will be on a panel discussing this very issue.  These strange eddies that I now find myself swerling in are, at once, daunting and curious.

Fair to say, Echoes, Neo-victorian Poetry should become available as soon as I address a few tweaks in the "proof."  I'm hoping to see this book finally available online in about a week, give or take.


All I's dotted, and fingers crossed.
 
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So, you read my poem, and ... ?

4/7/2013

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Why is it that the reaction I often receive to my poems amounts to little more than, "It was nice.  I liked it."  Asking for more seems rude, but I want to know what was "nice" about the piece.  Did it make the reader feel or think "something?"  Did it invoke any reaction at all.  Putting them on the spot is not what I do, but I do so want to know.

Ah, but that's not entirely true.  I once wrote a poem titled Emery, which brought out a whole range of reactions.  None of these reactions were quite alike, but they were all very intensely felt by the readers.  "This is me!" I heard on many occasions.  When I'd ask for their interpretation of the poem I was amazed by what they related to me.  Each time, I could clearly see what they saw in Emery, could understand how it applied to them, but I had never consciously put those meanings into the piece.

I suppose that such little gems of unexpected insight just "happen" from time to time, and that I shouldn't press for more when it just isn't there.  That my poems are "liked" can be good enough, I guess, but to know that what I write has an impact, however subtle, is a sweet reward that I hope to savor again.

At the moment, I am awaiting a proof of my new book, Echoes, Neo-Victorian Poetry, and hoping that we are finally done with the edits.  More on the next week...

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    About the author:

    I've written many poems over the years.  This blog is a preview of my books: Echoes, Neo-Victorian Poetry (April 2013), Echoes ll, More Neo-Victorian Poetry (May 2014), Echoes lll, Even More Neo-Victorian Poetry, (August 2016), A Compilation of Echoes. (September 2016), and When None Command (April 13, 2019)

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