Hello everyone,
This is a group email for all 18 new books that I am working on now. I am not fond of writing thisway but it the most exedient way to discuss the same thing to 20 people. This was going to be a one on one with all of you but when I stopped and thought of you all in my apartment I realized what a large group this is. But please be assured I am able to work on all this in my way and am caught up with all the work in front of us and looking forward to the future!
Different stages of authors:
I may have all your book items and we are ready to go print-ready; I may have some things and we are working on others; or you may not have even sent me your final text yet.
Any case all is AOK - you know where you are and so do I, so that’s all that matters 
20 new titles are in production.
Author, Title, ISBN
Megan Volpert the desense of nonfense 1-934289-89-2
Eileen Tabios THE CHATELAINE’S KEYS Her Biography Through Your Poetics 1-934289-92-2
Mary Kasimor Gotham City 1-934289-85-X
Bill Friend American Field Couches. 1-934289-57-4
Ted Greenwald In Your Dreams 1-934289-54-X
Jesse Glass X 1-934289-71-X
Skip Fox X 1-934289-72-8
Jared Schickling Submissions 1-934289-73-6
Lance Phillips Imposture Notebooks 1-934289-65-5
mIEKAL aND BYSTANDER An Irreality 1-934289-63-9
Kane X. Faucher X 1-934289-69-8
Kent Johnson X 1-934289-32-9
Mike Sikkema Futuring 1-934289-74-4
Christophe Casamassima Joys: a catalogue of disappointments 1-934289-77-9
Jordan Stempleman X 1-934289-70-1
Gordon Hadfield X 1-934289-75-2
Richard Owens X 1-934289-76-0
Greg Gerke X 1-934289-78-7
Anne Waldman X 1-934289-91-4
Web Pages
Your web pages are in the midst of creation. Check it out and please send me the proper info that is needed, like bio and blurbs. If you need help with blurbs or if you wish me to ask anyone in particular, please let me know and I’ll do my best. And if you need any help with your bio, I’d be happy to create one for you as well
* I am having trouble uploading the pages today but they wil be up nd running by MONDAY
Author, Webpage
Megan Volpert http://www.blazevox.org/bk-mv2.htm
Eileen Tabios http://www.blazevox.org/bk-et.htm
Mary Kasimor http://www.blazevox.org/bk-mkas2.htm
Bill Friend http://www.blazevox.org/bk-bf.htm
Ted Greenwald http://www.blazevox.org/bk-tg.htm
Jesse Glass http://www.blazevox.org/bk-jg.htm
Skip Fox http://www.blazevox.org/bk-mv2.htm
Jared Schickling http://www.blazevox.org/bk-js2.htm
Lance Phillips http://www.blazevox.org/bk-lp1.htm
mIEKAL aND http://www.blazevox.org/bk-ma.htm
Kane Faucher http://www.blazevox.org/bk-kf.htm
Kent Johnson http://www.blazevox.org/bk-kj2.htm
Mike Sikkema http://www.blazevox.org/bk-ms.htm
Christophe Casamassima http://www.blazevox.org/bk-cc.htm
Jordan Stempleman http://www.blazevox.org/bk-jstemp.htm
Gordon Hadfield http://www.blazevox.org/bk-gh.htm
Richard Owens http://www.blazevox.org/bk-ro.htm
Greg Gerke http://www.blazevox.org/bk-gerke.htm
Anne Waldman http://www.blazevox.org/bk-aw.htm
Book Covers
I have the basic cover all set up and ready with proper spine size all set up. We need to make a front cover.
Fonts
I can use any font you may like. I have 2500 different fonts on my mac so I have just about any style covered. Most times, the insides text I choose based on what I think best looks right for that text. I have had some success with this so if that needs adjusting we’ll talk. But for the title and front title we can discuss. If you want to be part of the font choosing, go to fonts.com or your favorite font factory and look around. Let me know what you like and I’ll match it up with what I have here.
http://www.dafont.com/
Image gallery
I have 200 images online for you to look over and maybe one might jump out at you. No worries if you don’t like anything you see. We’ll work out something before you can say Jack Robinson. But give them a whirl. 95% of the books so far are from my designs and images so don’t hire an artist if you don’t have to
Go here for book cover images
http://www.geoffreygatza.com/Covers
Texts
The text is attached to this email. It is set in Microsoft word doc which is easy to manipulate any changes you wihs to make. This easier to do on your end as you would take more time typing to me, change x to y and move it over three pegs, than to make the change yourself! I feel that it is best this way as you know your poetry and it’s flow much better than I do
The PDF is what the printed version will look like as set in the word doc. Take a look at this first to see how the embedded fonts will flow over the page and so on. Don ‘t try to edit this as we are doing work in the word document. This is a proof print only.
You may not have the font I choose for your book. This will make things look a bit wonky in your version of Word. If this is something that irks you, I’ll mail you the font for you to install in your machine and then all will flow like rain
Please know I am always here to anwer any questions on this or any other aspect of this book!
Library of Congress Catalog Numbers
All books are assigned a LOC number. I have completed
BlazeVOX [books] Author Resources
Check out the author resources page at http://www.blazevox.org/author.htm
Down the road
When we are print ready and you say go, you will be selling the book through two sources, Amazon (and SPD if you want) and the books you sell on your own. The online sales are as you’d expect, when someone buys one it is made right then and there, printed in 7 minutes I am led to understand, and shipped off to that person. You get 10% of the cover price for that sale. We don’t sell many that way, but most are at the point of the poet. Those sales are all yours to keep. This way you buy the book for the wholesale price of $1.57 per book and you sell them for $14. Mostly they sell best for $10 at readings, a perceived value. But from there you can drop them in local books shops and so on. But you getting this book in peoples hands will not be your problem, there is a real energy around you and your role in the poetry community. So hurray!
Oh, you make the order through me by putting money in my paypal account at http://www.blazevox.org/authorcopy.htm
In case anyone is wondering where I was and the work I accomplished:
Blog
http://www.blazevox.org/blog
Thank you
http://www.geoffreygatza.com/thankyou.htm
