book covers as media

Let's continue on what I was saying before: I am a pop artist who uses book covers as a medium.

Now it's true that I had to write 28 books, give or take a few, to have any kind of range out there in the world. There are four or five that I've taken off the market, not because I didn't like the art, but more because I didn't like what I had written within them. Or, it was old, or stale, or whatever. But the art wasn't. There is a sense that the art is secondary: that I choose it only after I have published something, or while I am publishing it.

Sometimes when I'm about done with a book I start fishing for cover ideas. I have a consistent font and a consistent style so I have what amounts to an exhibit, for sale on Amazon. Pretty sneaky way to get your art in front of the public, eh? If I were a better writer there would be people all over my art.

I have new books coming, so that keeps my pop mind alive. In addition I find myself changing covers on some of my books some of the time. This makes the older stuff inherently rarer and harder to find.

I could use that kind of reverse marketing to make it. Warhol made it, in end, as a kind of belwether for the pop market. One could do worse. He however is not around to enjoy his fame.