As much as I love poetry (and writing in general), I also need to think about my work as a marketable product. Obviously I want to share my work (which is why I post the bulk of it here for free), but I also have unavoidable obstacles: I have a chronic illness that limits my faculties, and a full-time job that takes up more than half of my waking time.
Despite that, I've written over 100 original poems, over 200 sonnets, and independently published 2 poetry collections.
As such, it falls upon me to occasionally self-promote, because in order to cover publishing/shipping expenses, I need to sell books.
Without getting too far into the accounting of it, here's my bottom line: I operate at a financial loss most of the time. I'm mostly cool with it (full time job, remember), but I can't continue writing much longer if it doesn't generate supplemental income. Ergo, book push. I need to make at least $1K before the end of June, so I can publish my next 2 books:
- 'Femmes Ferale' (The Wicked Women of Tucker's Cross) is my third poetry collection, which is due for a Halloween 2016 release. Among its pages you will find revised versions of familiar tales such as The Visitor, Trial of the Lilithite and Compatible Monsters, along with dark sonnets, haunting tableaus old and new, and enough horror to keep any fan of the dark romantic awake for hours.
- 'My Juliet' is chugging along (the word count is so close to 50K I can taste it), and I'm aiming for a release date of Feb 14, 2017. This is a love story, and will contain the (revised) full sonnet narrative outline at the end.
- Crawlspace has one more piece before it's no longer online. I intend for it to act as a prologue to my second novel, which I'm scheduling for a 2018 release. A different kind of love story, this is about a boy who befriends a ghost girl who haunts his bedroom.
- Inferno in Oz will be released as a free PDF, once it's complete.
- I intend to revise and compile all of my sonnets into a book, which will also contain an epic 50+ sonnet narrative entitled Chasing Pangaea. The hope is that I can release this one sometime after My Juliet, but we'll see.
- Both my previous poetry collections will be available individually, as well as together in a single volume (revised and re-organized.
-Hellbreaker is available in the store, with deluxe editions made to order.
- Finally, here's the rough forecast for what's on the horizon (prices added to items currently available):
- Oct. 2016 - Femmes Ferale: The Wicked Women of Tucker's Cross - (preorder-- $20, $25 signed)
- Feb. 2017 - Verona Trilogy, Book I: My Juliet
- Oct. 2017 - Chasing Pangaea: Sonnets to Read in the Dark
- 2019 - Abigail Trilogy, Book I: Crawlspace (novel)
- 2021 - Verona Trilogy, Book II: My Athena
- 2023 - Abigail Trilogy, Book II (Untitled)
- 2025 - Verona Trilogy, Book III: My Venus
- 2027 - Abigail Trilogy, Book III (Untitled)
Folks, I love writing, and I love you all for your support. I want to keep writing things, but I can't do that without your help. If you can afford to buy a thing, do! And if not, please share, RT or forward this post everywhere you can.
Again, thank you all. Were it not for the support of all of you, I never would have made it to the first book.
Much love,
Jackson Cambridge,
March 11, 2016.
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