Today, I released my first chapbook into the wild! Called I Choose to Launch Forward: Poems, it is a Pay-What-You-Wish publication. Which means exactly what it says. Whatever you want to pay, you can. You can find more information on the Essence of Life website, specifically, this post.
Why did you write the chapbook?
I wrote the chapbook because it was going to be written anyway. The better question is “Why did I publish this chapbook now?” I chose to publish this chapbook now because it was honestly now or never. I could not just sit and wait any longer to publish my work. So, I decided to go on Canva and create a cover (there is a template for book covers; I chose a free one), and then compiled the poems… it just had to happen for me, today. If not now, when? I had to do it. I simply had to. If I am as serious about my writing and The Essence of Life as I say I am, then I had to put my money where my mouth was. I chose to publish now and make it Pay-What-You-Wish because it’s either going to be loved, or it’s going to be not-loved. But I had to see what would happen. I will always be my own guinea pig, and I need to accept that. So, I stepped out and did it. It was time.
These poems have been years in the making: literal years, decades even of watching, waiting, wondering, and listening. And now I can say I put out a small anthology of poems. It feels scary, honestly. It feels so scary but so good, oh my stars.
But the greatest things are scary. Aren’t they? The greatest things are the scariest to do… I just had to stop being so scared of myself. That is what I think.
Options to Pay and More Goodies
I’ll put the link to the poems in here, and they are on my website as well. Again, it’s Pay-What-You-Wish, and here’s how you can pay. If you’d like to pay by a means not listed here, hit reply and we’ll figure something out.
Paypal is paypal.me/eoflife
Cash App is $ebscott91
Venmo is @eof-life
Please put I Choose so I know what you’re paying for. Though this is the first thing I’m selling… aside from some t-shirts on Spring! (Formerly Teespring). You can purchase a T-shirt if you want with part of the poem “I Choose” (which is in the Chapbook) on it! Here’s that link. (Links to my Spring store!)
Tentative Official Newsletter Restart Date
I am looking at the first Monday in June to officially restart this newsletter, and then quarterly after that. We shall see!
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