Nath Jones's Blog - Posts Tagged "cover-charge"

You won't see awards on this collection as much. It's an experimental post-post-modern virtual fun run. My mother and sister didn't know what a cover charge was in 2020 when COVID was first about to hit the U.S. Do you know what a cover charge is at a bar or club? Everyone does! (They never go out. But they read!) Writers have public speaking platforms, don't they? But they really don't take cover charges. It's pretty interesting. I don't believe I've ever paid a cover charge at a library or bookstore for a book talk. Still, authors do get paid for their speaking engagements. How was I to get paid for my spoken word work to The COVID-19 Response?! I did my best! The Kindle edition may need to be edited. Right now it's just a bill for cover art. But the paperback is a collection of notes from trying to have a public platform in COVID. I happened to scale from 1,800 to 5,000 Facebook fans in October and November of 2019, right as COVID was hitting Asia so hard. What happened to my platform? It got locked down in a pandemic!