
Pretty soon my third book 'The Kasahara School of Nihilism' will come out on Fugue State Press. It will look like that picture above. Inside of it there are illustrations that look like this.
The illustrations were done by Dan. If you want him to do illustrations for your book or something then email him at dnvenn@googlemail.com and he will probably try his best to help you so long as you are not an irritating bitch.Here are things Crispin Best has said about the book:
-'i think it is a great thing'
-'i enjoyed it'
-'i felt good and optimistic for you'
-'i do probably prefer this to fences'
-'i felt like it was an accumulation of images'
-'language was used strongly'
here is a summary of the book by Crispin Best:
"if someone said 'what is it about?' i would say 'it's about a school burning down'
but it doesn't matter if that's not what it is about
that's what i liked and took from it
the school burning
chizuko sato
the bear
the two women (very excellent)
yamagato sensei"
LARGE SCALE PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGN
Pretty much I am not good at promoting things. But I came up with an idea for this one and ran it past james and he said 'do it'. So it will be done. Although how many people choose to participate will be unpredictable. Here is how it will work:
1. You will sign up to the large scale promotional campaign by emailing your address and the name of a local bookshop which you will need for later to brooksben@hotmail.co.uk
2. When the book has been printed (pretty soon) I will send you a copy of the book.
3. You will read the book hopefully.
4. After you have finished reading the book you will put it onto the shelf at your local bookshop. Inside the book will be written:
Pretty much I am not good at promoting things. But I came up with an idea for this one and ran it past james and he said 'do it'. So it will be done. Although how many people choose to participate will be unpredictable. Here is how it will work:
1. You will sign up to the large scale promotional campaign by emailing your address and the name of a local bookshop which you will need for later to brooksben@hotmail.co.uk
2. When the book has been printed (pretty soon) I will send you a copy of the book.
3. You will read the book hopefully.
4. After you have finished reading the book you will put it onto the shelf at your local bookshop. Inside the book will be written:
Dear Happy Shopper,
Please take this book home with you
You do not have to pay for it because it is not really supposed to be here
If someone tries to arrest you then please email me and I will come to get you out of jail. You can send the email to kasaharabail@gmail.com
I hope you enjoy the book,
have a great life
Ben.
Please take this book home with you
You do not have to pay for it because it is not really supposed to be here
If someone tries to arrest you then please email me and I will come to get you out of jail. You can send the email to kasaharabail@gmail.com
I hope you enjoy the book,
have a great life
Ben.
5. You will go on to eat meals, go on dates, do sex and general live.
6. I will gradually become more and more wealthy until I become so wealthy from this scheme of giving away free books that I stop the scheme of giving away free books.
6. I will gradually become more and more wealthy until I become so wealthy from this scheme of giving away free books that I stop the scheme of giving away free books.
I hope people feel positive things about this. It will make me very happy if you participate.
Possibility Of Nakedness
Also please pre-order An Island of Fifty if you havent. Sasha Fletcher has already sold out his first print run through pre-orders and I think I am far behind. Sasha got paid to get drunk when he sold out his print run. Because he sold out his first print run a second print run is being done. I would like if this happened to An Island of Fifty but also am aware that it may not. But please try mates. I feel an intense sense of competition except it isnt really competition because I am going to lose. Pre order Pre order Pre order. If the print run is sold out in 1 week then I will send a totally naked picture of myself to 'Other' except the penis will sort of be blurred out. I feel like the chances of that happening are maybe 2% so probably I will not need to get naked.
Possibility Of Nakedness
Also please pre-order An Island of Fifty if you havent. Sasha Fletcher has already sold out his first print run through pre-orders and I think I am far behind. Sasha got paid to get drunk when he sold out his print run. Because he sold out his first print run a second print run is being done. I would like if this happened to An Island of Fifty but also am aware that it may not. But please try mates. I feel an intense sense of competition except it isnt really competition because I am going to lose. Pre order Pre order Pre order. If the print run is sold out in 1 week then I will send a totally naked picture of myself to 'Other' except the penis will sort of be blurred out. I feel like the chances of that happening are maybe 2% so probably I will not need to get naked.
I hope everyone is well.
re-posted @ BigOther:
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"except the penis will sort of be blurred out."
ReplyDeleteI was told that this is because you don't actually have one. True or faux?
can you check out my summer reading list on my blog and comment if any of it sucks?
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