Hello poetry enjoyers,

Today would have been my sister's 37th birthday, and that means it's the 3rd anniversary of her death. She really stuck around to this day so they would match, I think.

So I have decided to go for it, and read some work from the book and edit together a little video. Please, if you listen, stay to the end for a small selection of photos of her, and the last poem of the book. I hope some day to write a nicer poem for her, one that is about her, and her boundless love. But that's just not what the collection is about. So it goes!

Reid Aster is well on the way to creating a cover for the extra book this project is funding, While Widening the Wound. It will be a traditional media piece, mixed media, and is going to be truly amazing. But for now, take a look at the front+back cover of Like Warm Plastic, all ready for print!

Now I'm going to go have a drink for Diana, and leave the shot of tequila on the bar that I promised her I would leave her. Treat yourselves well today, and do something lovely for her if you can. 

Thank you for your support and making this book possible,

7DA
your publishing goblin

Hello my dear friends!

Reid Aster, Kollapsar Art, got the back illustrations for the book over, and I'm excited to share them!...
But not yet! I want to save the full book to reveal yet during the campaign. Instead, I am excited to share that my poems While Opening the Wound and An Estrangement, originally two separate books, and reprinted in the This Map is Just a Suggestion collection, are being printed together into an edited, updated version of the long poem entitled:

While Widening the Wound

I've always felt that the thesis poem itself was really solid, but the followup poem An Estrangement was less impressive. So I'm going to fix it! It will likewise share a new cover, courtesy (if Reid agrees) of Reid Aster! It was something I had mentioned once but hadn't officially made happen, but we are now about the break the 2500 mark! So I'm officially asking for realsies!

In addition to being a $15 book available as an add-on, it has been added (yes, without changing the price!) to the two highest tiers for backers. So for $95 you now get the broadsides, Like Warm Plastic, Every Day in Love, This Map is Just a Suggestion, and While Widening the Wound! And for the extra $30 to go up to the $125 signed hoard, you get all the above signed.

They were already pretty good deals, but now they both got $15 better!

(I considered adding it to the Three Book tier but it's called Three Books already and that would be confusing!)

So if you're already in those tiers, don't change a thing! You're golden!
If you want the new book and are in one of the lower tiers, you can now add it as an add-on! 

Thanks everyone, excited to report this has already surpassed the project to fund the Every Day in Love and This Map is Just a Suggestion collections, and that's fantastic to see! Let's keep the momentum going and see if we can sneak our way even further!

7DA
your pub gob

Hello my dear friends,

Thank you for joining me for some poetry goodness! Now that we're solidly over the goal of $1500, I can say without a doubt that we will be seeing a print run of this book this year! And that's amazing.

Thank you for believing in poetry-- it's a weird thing that can be hard to get into the world. So it's thanks to you that it can exist at all. THANK YOU!

While I'm still working on some elements of the book (and the back cover illustrations are still on their way to me), it's pretty much about ready for printing. Which means this will be a quick turnaround project, shipping yet this year once I get the books made and popped overseas to me. Should make for a nice holiday present! 

Now our next goal, if we can make it, is $2500! If we can make it there, I will be commissioning a new cover piece for my Master's thesis poem, While Opening the Wound, and re-leasing that with its companion poem in its pages on black paper with green text, as intended. It will become an add-on on this project, as we'll also fun the printing of a small run of that book as well.

Congrats us on a solid first 7 hours, and here's to hoping the remaining days will find us at that next goal, friends!

7DA
your pub gob