dulcetly...notes on a bookish life

  I was moving some books around on my shelf and realized I have now published just as many books via self-publishing as I did traditional publishing. Slightly more if you count the e-book version of LITTLE APOCALYPSE that never came into being because the press closed as we were in the final layout stages. The last traditionally published book was SEX & VIOLENCE, which came out in that weirdness of covid lockdown summer, and actually managed to sell quite well compared to my previous Black Lawrence title published in 2016 (though not as well as GIRL SHOW did way back in 2014.) Part of it may have been that I doubled down on promo since there was no possibilities of release parties and readings and such to move copies.  After 2020, I felt a shift in my relationship toward po-biz and publishing, as well as a general backlog and build-up of unpublished work. In those intervening years, I've had fairly long routines of writing poems daily (or at least fragments)  By th...