Nice imagery.

This kind of thing would make for a pretty cool chapbook done in tandum with pictures done by one of the terrific artists around here . . .

He, he, he...maybe artwork done by the speculative poet himself?

I've actually been tossing the idea around in my head for a while now.  I'm going to start thinking about such a venture in the future.  It's on my "to-do" list (along with several other things).

Any suggestions about such a thing would be greatly appreciated, by the way.  I really don't know much about putting a chapbook together, or getting one published.

I'm an expert at making chapbooks. Not so savvy on marketing them.

To do really professional chapbooks, you need a serious trimmer. I usually use #24 paper at least (20 feels and looks cheap as well as tending to bleed through). My newest chapbook sports a parchment cover and a craft-paper wrap, which makes it look like something special.

Richard, I've done chapbooks for our state poetry society. I got bids from all the local printers, did the cover and interior art myself, it ended up being fairly inexpensive. Did it in Publisher, gave the printer everything on a cd with the artwork included in .png, .gif, and .tif formats. Even with a color cover and a small print run we didn't make out too bad selling them at $6.00 a copy.

For marketing, I hit our (only) bookstore, other bookstores in the state, then all the gift shops, including the little gift shops in the hotels, any place that sold local/state tourist stuff. The farmer's co-op, the organization website has a downloadable order form, sent out email notices to the arts councils and blogs, put a link on my personal blog, sent press releases to the newspapers and book reviewers, libraries, etc. We held a publication party in conjunction with the state writer's conference and got them in other writer's conference sale tables. We did a bunch of other things I can't recall at the moment, but after it was published, 6 months later, we only had 30 copies left. 

A lot of work, but it was worth it. --Although I didn't volunteer to edit our next one. Just do the artwork. :)

(I really like the second 'horrorku'. excellent imagery. tells a little story all by itself.)

Hmm, I sucked up and went with Vista on my new laptop, and it really hasn't been that bad. It doesn't play nice with a few older programs I have, so I left them on the old XP laptop. Other than that, it hasn't been the devil incarnate I was led to believe it would be. In fact, several times it seems to have 'healed itself' from some problem without my intervention. It's been a fairly stable platform for me, and I'm running graphics and other memory intensive programs at the same time. *cough* iTunes

The pop up permission thing is annoying, though, unless you accidentally hit install when you didn't mean to. Then it saves you.  Oh, and finding where MS hid some programs is an adventure in itself. It's my computer, damn it, I'll decide what programs I want to see or not see.

You got it to work? Cool. Maybe they finally did create the patch. I'll try again. Last time I tried was around last October or so.

Also, I'm certain a great deal of the difficulty I had at first had to do with using Laplink to migrate an XP system to the Vista system. There's also a lot of Toshiba trash I can't seem to shake. Thanks for letting me know you got it to work. That's a good sign! Made my day. Thanks.

PS: RH, sorry to hijack the thread. Here's a horrorku for you:

geeks gabbing techno
hijack poetry thread
systems failure looms

Terror dulls senses
shadows rise, ambiguous
heart knows Death's approach

screaming, she bleeds long
prey to what she loved, she loves
death seduces still