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August 24, 2015
Why Librarians Don’t Want to Buy Your Self-Published Book
An informative post for authors wishing to get their books into libraries. Kevin
Originally posted on wrapped up in books:
When a self-published author contacts someone in the collection development department at my library, we let out a collective groan. Inevitably, our answer to the request to add their book to our collection will feel personal, which is awkward. It will definitely mean more work for us no matter what, and foracquisitions and cataloging staff as well...
Home
The closing of my door.
Me Sitting alone in the twilight, on my sofa, the furry blue throw soft against my hands, listening to the companionable rain.
The friendly bookcase in the corner, packed full of books, the ting tang clock standing atop it, keeping the elephant bookends and Austrian stein company.
The ebony elephant on the cabinet, one ear slightly mauled, watches me quizzickally, far from his home in China.
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The bookcase in my bedroom, still smelling faintly of the pine forest, fu...
August 23, 2015
Lust
Unadulterated lust.
Needs must.
No scent of musk,
Just dust
And my nose savouring the scent of books!
(The above was inspired by reading the following post by Jennifer Calvert, https://jennifercalvertwriter.wordpress.com/2015/06/17/lustful-sin/. If you haven’t already please do check out Jennifer’s blog).
Kevin
August 22, 2015
Pregnant
Originally posted on Behind the White Coat:
While you were
Looking away
I stole the best
Part of you
Took it inside
Hidden, growing
Now there’s a life
All its own
And you are
Nowhere near
A disillusioned Man Of The World’s Song
A rhythmic motion
Like a ship upon the ocean
Your legs swung
But to me no joy brung.
You spoke in a foreign tongue.
No songs where sung.
You where young
Eighteen or twenty
Our hearts they where empty.
Yes you where young,
Your feet in heels swung .
I see them swinging still
I have had my fill
Of desert beds and swinging legs.
Love to me is dead.
The Best Sourced Dorothy Parker Quotes
Originally posted on Interesting Literature:
10 of the best quotes from Dorothy Parker and where they first appeared
Dorothy Parker was born on this day in 1893, so in honour of this we’ve compiled a list of ten of the wittiest and wisest quotations from the Dorothy Parker oeuvre, as well as some of her pithiest and most memorable one-liners. Many quotations have been attributed to Parker, but here we’ve confined ourselves to the things that she definitely did say.
There’s a hell of a distan...
The Abyss
“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” (F Nietzsche).
I first came across this quote while at university and it has stayed with me ever since. There is a fascinating discussion regarding it’s meaning here, http://forums.philosophyforums.com/threads/and-if-you-gaze-for-long-into-an-abyss-the-abyss-gazes-also-into-38060-11.html
August 21, 2015
Bedposts
Bedposts stand and watch
As we our lives botch.
Never counting the cost
Of love wasted and lost.
Bedposts know,
That lovers come and go
And man sows what he reaps.
Would that they could speak.
The Great Experiment!
BookCrossing is the practice of leaving books for others to find. Usually a message will be included allowing the person who finds the book to inform the individual who has left it that it has been found. There exist Book Crossing websites to facilitate this process.
I decided to release my baby, “Dalliance; A Collection Of Poetry And Prose” into the great beyond. It is already available in the Amazon Kindle store, in my local book store (The Bookseller Crow) and direct from me. However I tho...
