Comments on: Binding words

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:55:20 +0000

A lot of stores will accept stuff on consignment. And I hear good things about Etsy.com for selling handmade stuff online -- check out their books and zines section. Also, check out the resources section of the DIY Poetry Publishers Cooperative site. Promotion is pretty much up to the author these days even if you go with a conventional publisher, so in some ways there's never been a better time to self-publish. If you have a blog and are a good networker, you can probably expect to sell out your inventory of hand-made chapbooks fairly quickly.

By: sarah

sarah — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:14:06 +0000

Great to see others out there making their own chapbooks – but a question for you, how do get these accepted in mainstream book stores or otherwise promoted?

By: Ivy

Ivy — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:46:33 +0000

Thanks, Pica! Great tutorial. :-)

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:22:42 +0000

This is a little gem of simple explication.

By: Pica

Pica — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:03:49 +0000

Thank you, Dick, Peter, Lucy, Beth. Lucy, definitely check out classes — I think you’d love this.

Ivy: A/P is “Artist’s Proof.” This means I made a couple extra outside the predicted numbered edition of 20, insurance against mishaps (in printing, as in etching or lithography, you need to include quite a few extras, the more “passes” you do the more extras you need.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:21:22 +0000

In the last picture, what does A/P stand for?

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:30:45 +0000

I meant to thank you for this – it makes the fingers itch! And interesting about how handling text in print could make one read and see it differently.

Nice to think that the web will lead to people exchanging ideas about low-tech ways to do things. I saw a poster for book-binding courses a while back – I’ve been wondering about pursuing it…

By: beth

beth — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:49:09 +0000

Wonderful post, Pica – and the booklets are really beautiful. What you say about reading during the work and finding newness rings very true to me. Thanks to Dave for soliciting this excellent series.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:11:41 +0000

Pica, you share your love with such simplicity and clarity . . . it’s like listening to a child’s heart through her words.

You make it tempting for me to learn more and to perhaps dive in one day. (I was at a printmaking studio in a large art college this past week. I wanted to stay and watch all day.)

By: Dick

Dick — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:41:44 +0000

Thanks so much, Pica and Dave, for this guide to dodging the usual channels in so creative a way. How useful it would be to have some central bank where such thoroughly practical resources for poets could be placed.