We are asking you to help fund the production of your book. We have done this for the past two years and it seems to be working out very positively. Over $2000 goes into the production of a book with BlazeVOX and we are hoping you will donate $250 to the press to help meet the costs of our budgeted year.  To briefly explain, we just lost another major donor this year and I want to publish books, but it takes some money to do so. It takes $2000 to make a book and I am asking a few folks whose books are very very good to help in the publication cost of that book. So I am asking folks to help out in the publication costs. Of the 783 manuscripts I received I choose 20 books to publish from this lot. There was a real system in choosing these texts and in my opinion this is better than holding a contest. I have been in that room before and I am not fond of people paying $40 to have a fist year grad student pick through a box of manuscripts to find something they like. This way, we choose good books and if they can help pay 12% of the total cost it takes to get a title into print. I am sure that there are better ways to do this but in our turbulent times it is hard to get people to fund poetry and experimental fiction. I am sorry if this upsetting and I understand completely. But this is in the spirit of a co-op and without money nothing can be done. I would be happy to publish this as an ebook should you wish to skip the donation. Also, we chose this way as opposed to having authors pay have the cover prince for their own books as my own books are published. Each book is sold to the author for about $3 where at other presses, like the ones who publish me, ask for $8 per copy. So in the long run the amount of $250 in the beginning is a lot less than the author ordering books at a higher rate than they are produced. Example, 100 x 3 = $300 100 x 8 = $800 In this model the other press makes five hundred more on the same book. This donation would give you a book with BlazeVOX [books], this includes ISBN, barcode, full color cover, sales at SPD and Amazon.com; a BlazeVOX [books] webpage and listing catalog. Our books are consistently reviewed by and have a standing requests from the the finest publications Best, Geoffrey BlazeVOX [books] Fundraiser Happy TEN years of existence!!! Geoffrey Gatza Editor & Publisher ------------------------------------- BlazeVOX [ books ] Publisher of weird little books --------------------------------------
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In every new age there comes a new method. Today the cyber culture sits on the brim of explosion. Our mission, after ten years is still very hard to pin down. We represent neither a group of writers nor one mode of writing. We enjoy innovative works of literature in what ever format that it chooses to find itself. We wish to promote new style, emerging voices and provide an outlet for these artists to express their artistic visions. This sounds good, and in turn we will try to live up to these standards and will do whatever is humanly possible. Please forgive us in advance for our flaws. BlazeVOX Books has published over 190 volumes, mostly poetry, and will publish approximately 50 to 75 more each year during 2010 and 2011. Our latest book authors include Tom Clark, Anne Waldman with illustrations by George Scheenman, Ted Greenwald, Celia Gilbert, Raymond Federman and Craig Paulenich. A detailed list of all of our titles is located in our online catalog blazevox.org/catalog.htm. Also just out is the latest issue of BlazeVOX2k9 and online journal of voice. But wait, there’s more; our Wilde Reading Room has 75 ebooks available for free download. As you can see, BlazeVOX [books] presents some of the most original voices writing today.