I've got a secret that I've been dying to share, and there's no better place than on a blog that very few people read, for who wants to actually read about pop art? People want an exhibit, they want a big Marilyn in their face, they want a bold statement like those that Warhol was good at making. All on the surface. All in a single picture. All with the boldest colors one can imagine.

Here's my secret: I make book covers; that's my medium, and though I'm not great at it, I've found it to be a fascinating way to crank out pop art. First I have the book, of course. The book doesn't need to have all its copies have the same cover; a cover can last a few years, and then I can change it to another cover. In fact I can change that cover after I've sold only a single book. It doesn't seem to be against Amazon's policy and it doesn't even necessarily upset them all that much. If they feel inclined to make a few test copies or have a few sitting around to prepare them for orders, then of course they risk wasting those few as I move on to a different or better cover and they're stuck with the old ones. But I never hear about that. What their machinery tells me is that if I make a new one, they'll put it on there. That can be tomorrow or any day.

What that means is that theoretically, I can print as much pop art as I want. I can get all my pop art out there in the world, one book at a time, and with every bizarre bold pop-art creation someone will look at it and say, wow, that's a wild picture. That's a piece of work. That's like Andy Warhol.

What I'm working toward is to have every book, every cover, every iteration, be as special as an Andy Warhol work. I have twenty-seven books out now and many of them if not all of them have some kind of pop art on the cover. Sometimes the titles and author's name ruin it a little - if it looks too much like a standard book cover, I'm a little disappointed. I want it to be bold, striking, intense. I want them all to be like that. If one of them is not, I want to change it until it is.

The world of pop art requires someone to be the kind of hustler Andy Warhol was. I don't know if I have the kind of genius it took to take a Campbell's soup can and make millions off its image, which actually has some problems with copyright probably, but I do know that Warhol did not let copyright keep him from splashing images all around the world and becoming one of the most easily recognized artists of the modern era. He had a kind of genius that I admire and am following up on. My books will for the most part be full of haiku, but that's ok, you have to have something in a book, otherwise it's just blank pages with pop art on the cover. The haiku is part of the bargain. And you know the kind of thing that goes along with haiku: flowers, roads, monarch butterflies. Vistas of incredible beauty. Impressionism through computer-aided cartoonization.

In this pop art site, I keep my best secrets. In plain sight.