My kid is driving me crazy! Spring break is way too effing long. Felt like jumping out a window for Christ’s sake. Happy Easter. Oy. Ugh. Urf.
Got to love the Internet. In the process of clearing my In box today and going through Google alerts, I came across a call for poetry submissions from a dude in LA named Rodger Jacobs. Hemingway’s Shotgun is an online magazine devoted to all manner of poetic verse but with a particular emphasis on poetry on the topic of literature, books, and reading. Googled him naturally and it turns out Jacobs is a rather interesting fellow with an intriguing past, an award-winning screenwriter, journalist, documentary producer and journalist whose work has appeared in myriad national publications. The site looked cool so I sent along some poems, several of which were set in Los Angeles, having resided there for many years. As I mentioned in my previous post, true crime is my guilty pleasure and we share a fascination with the Wonderland murders, the story of which he compares to “Raymond Chandler on crack.”
I was also interested in what he had to say about POD—publishing on demand—as he is well schooled in e-commerce. Long Time Money and Lots of Cocaine is the title of the book he’s written about the murders which contains an edited and annotated version of the court transcript for John Holmes’ preliminary hearing. As he explains it, there is so much interest in the subject he decided to self-publish and keep a larger piece of the action/residuals. Lulu Press provides a free storefront, affordable set-up costs and fair royalties. The author pays for the ISBN which gets the title into other markets, in both real and virtual worlds. I’ve been considering going that route with my novel but right now, I can’t find the time for the revisions it needs. So if you secretly read true crime as well, check it out:
Thank you ever so, Heather.
I had forgotten about that “Chandler on crack” quote; must’ve been from an interview I did.