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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

Mark Tursi on the The Jane Crown Show

Poet Mark Tursi author of :The Impossible Picnic” comes to interview and read for us!

Chicago trip finished!

So I’m back from Chicago, alive and well! Rich and I had a wonderful time and with very little difficulty moved a 400 pound Verderhooligan proof press, by truck from Des Plaines, Ill back to Buffalo! It was very exciting traveling with Rich, this was one of the great journey’s with a good friend - over half the country! Excellent fun. It felt like those road trips one takes in their twenties – only well planned out! Rich had a great plan and better luck, so it was easy and fun.

Met up with Brooks Johnson and had a great night of discussion and awesome Mexican food. The next day Rich indulged me in a trip to Iwan Reis tobacco shop. This has been in business for over 150 years and has all the goodies and toys a pipe smoker could want at hand and not online. Great fun! I love Chicago!

Pictures here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ggatza/BrooksDone

So it turns out Arm & Hammer is not thrilled with my improper use of their logo in our Poetry USA sign. In a very kind and personal letter Church & Dwight demanded me to remove all items with their property on it, removed and destroyed within a very healthy time limit. I have complied with all of their requests and purged the site and other items, like a MySpace image and a Cafepress button, on a page I thought closed years ago. Luckily, nothing was printed that cannot be destroyed without awful feelings. Mostly, the online image was the offending item. So it’s gone and will be replaced with this!

I’ll be leaving Buffalo tonight at 10 PM to head by truck to Chicago with Richard Owens to pick up a printing press. 400 pounds of printing press to be exact! So, this aught to be a great deal of fun. A midnight ride to Chicago. Pick up the press and catch some poets and head on back after a rest. My hopes are to eat at the Weber Grill restaurant  and stop at Iwan Reis Tobacconists! So happy trails!

Kent !

Sweet mention of Epigramititis at Robert Baird’s, the editor of Chicago Review, blog today.

http://www.digitalemunction.com/wordpress/2008/04/30/dantes-tenzone-with-forese-donati-1/

Mark Tursi Radio!

Mark Tursi will be interviewed on Jane Crown’s Poetry radio this Sunday, May 4th on his BlazeVOX [books], the Impossible Picnic.

So, tune in! http://www.blogtalkradio.com/The-Jane-Crown-Show.

Kenmore poem completed

All four volumes are now complete and online for viewing!

http://www.geoffreygatza.com/kenmore.htm

Good Luck Kevin

Kevin Thurston
R.I.D.C - REQUIESCAT IN D.C
2006 – 2008

George Oppen conference

I’m sorry for missing the George Oppen conference that was here in Buffalo. I feel like a twit for not even knowing it was going on. My apologies to the organizers and participants for being utterly out of touch on this. I was in a whirl of writing, helping a friend move and worked the Babel event for Kiran Desai. All great fun but I would have enjoyed this a great deal. Hurray on UB for their wonderful dedication to poetry!

Chicago on Friday and Saturday

I am helping Rich Owens move a printing press he bought on eBay. 400 pounds of press to be exact But I was afraid of who else might go in my place, or he would do it on his own, so I offered. I can move heavy stuff like a pro so this should be great fun. Plus we are stopping to see Kent Johnson on the way so that’ll be a hoot too! Hurray!

Reviews

Amy King’s I’M THE MAN WHO LOVES YOU on CutBank
magazine’s review site, here: http://cutbankpoetry.blogspot.com/

Tarpaulin Sky reviews Mark Wallace’s, Walking Dreams
http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Reviews/walking_dreams.html

New book authors

Just a quick note to say, I am going to begin working on your book on my return from Chicago early next week. I have put the finishing touches on several other projects and am now ready to being in full swing on your book. I am sorry for being out of touch but there is only so much I can do and this allows me the ability to work with you in a close, intimate fashion that I prefer than the quick hit email and so on

So hurray on everything

Best, Geoffrey

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BuffaloFOCUS:
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Oh yes, this is the catch phrase used by Thundar The Barbarian

Featuring poetry and recipes by 8 contemporary writers including book reviews, a short story by Kirk Curnutt, a new column by Kemel Zaldivar and introducing Jane Wong and Danny Jackson-Pierce.

and a few really great recipes by Geoffrey Gatza - Ohhhh Yeahhh!

big thanks to the most wonderful Didi Menendez