A Fresh Start

Much as I’m hugely proud of my very first self-published book, The Soul Bearer, and I’ll always be grateful for each and every one of its twenty-five reviews, the time has come to retire both it and my other poetry books.

Yes, I’m doing the unthinkable and taking my first three books out of print.

It’s really not such a crazy idea. I was using the name ‘Bex Pavia’ for those early books and I no longer use that name. My fantasy novel is written as R.K. Pavia and I’d like the cohesion of having a poetry collection published under that name, too. I also have a children’s picture book published (The Story of the Snowman) using Bex, and I’ll be keeping that name for other children’s books planned for the future.

It really does make sense, see?

So, now that’s clear, I’m currently compiling, formatting, and proofing my soon to be published poetry collection, The Doorway: and other poems.

This process actually feels cathartic. It’s a fresh start, a new beginning, a shedding of skin – and I like it.

This new book includes most of my previously published poems with a scattering of new ones. I hope to draw in some of the loyal readers of my old books and, with its swanky new cover and eclectic mix of poetry, perhaps a few new, soon-to-be-loyal readers.

One accolade that will always make me proud is that, through my rhyming verse I’ve managed to turn some who’ve never been interested in poetry into those who have a new-found interest in it. Maybe this book can achieve that once more. Maybe not – but it will be fun to find out.