I found  the drawings I was thinking of and once I get all these poems formatted for the book I'll look to see where I will add them. Looking forward to working with the images. It will be fun!

I was very active in the poetry scene in NYC in the first half of the 90's. At last they will see the light of day and night.

As I was correcting some of the scanning errors on the poems this morning before my day job. I'm getting up at 4:30 these days to work on the House of Forgetfulness.  it occured to me that I have some drawings that might work in the book along with the poems.

The only catch is I have to retrieve them from my storage closet where a box of portfolios and drawings are although buried under boxes of Christmas ornaments, summer clothes, hats, Easter basket, an extra comforter, office supplies, and don't know what else.

And now that I have my trusty scanner I can easily scan the drawings into Photoshop to set up to insert in the book.

I need to get into that closet  anyway because I'd like to find the earliest typed copy of From Darkness because I'm hoping that box is where the first 8 pages I wrote with a quill pen are. And might be interesting to attach to my one vol edition for readers to see.

Ok. I've scanned 48 poems.

The may not all make it into the book but then they may.

Next step is cleaning up the scanned copies. As many of you may know, you can scan a perfectly typed doc but it comes out strangely. Printing C for an O for example.  So will begin correcting tomorrow.

Then to decide what order to put them in. I think the poems will tell me.

Create the full cover, that is front and back and spine for the paperback.

Send the text to Polgarus Studio who will format House of Forgetfulness for eBooks.

And I'll upload to Create space to create the paperback.

Two weeks or so to publication depending also on Polgarus' schedule.

Fun and moving rereading the poems. Haven't read them since the mid-nineties.

Tienke Klein a Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor's NDE

Understated emotionally impressive NDE experiencer.

This will be my first collection of published poetry.
Although I've published in several small press magazines.

Just before the book launch I'll upload the video of the reading and interview I've mentioned before.

I created the cover from a collage I made.

Warning: The poems are edgy. Some transcendent.  Coming soon as I scan, arrange, & proofread.

FROM DARKNESS- THE ROSEWOOD BOX is available Now at Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo. Excited me! See the links on side bar here . When you get to those stores to Pre-order as I hope you do, they will all say the publishing date is October 31, 2016.  I just wanted to make sure I didn't go past my deadline with them because this is the first time I've distributed my books with these stores..

But I'm telling you Insiders that I am working to get it published and available much sooner, by July 7, 2016.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utNJUtRv_QU

The first one, Sharon was reading Edward Casey when she was 11 years old!  Enjoy!