covers to die for

Nobody buys haiku; the market for any poetry whatsoever appears to be pretty small. When I buy one of my own, I shoot straight up in the ratings and become one of the best sellers ever. With a single book buy I can own the haiku ratings.

Of course I could get the "author's copy" where it only costs a couple bucks but they charge a couple more for shipping - they have to make back on the shipping what they don't make simply printing the book - but I'm too cheap to pay any shipping whatsoever. And besides, it comes out to about the same. You pay over the top, you get about a buck royalty and your ratings skyrocket. So when my ratings swoon I've taken to just buying my own.

And if I'm going to do that, then I'm going to have my own pop exhibit, by having pop covers that are essentially the best I can make them. I'm only at the beginning stages. I'm not sure I've mastered this art of covers. These books that have professionally made covers seem to have gold and silver embossed lettering on them or something like that, and mine are not quite like that yet. Also they tend to make the author's name really big like it's more of a draw than the book itself - I'm not sure if I'm ready for that either.

But the covers themselves are the new pop exhibit. It appears to be a book. But actually it's pop art, in your face.