Andrew Stevens
From: Jack Saunders
To: Andrew Stevens, 3AM magazine
Subj:
12 Short Reviews of BUKOWSKI NEVER DID THIS
After I sent you "12 Short Reviews of BUKOWSKI NEVER DID THIS," I was
invited to sign books at a book festival in Panama City, Florida, and expanded the
story into a pamphlet, which I call 32 Short Reviews of BUKOWSKI NEVER DID THIS,
to give away at the book fair, promoting the forthcoming book.
Attached find
a copy.
If you can use it, fine; if not, you can read it.
Christopher M
From: Jack Saunders
To: Christopher M, Four-Sep Publications
Subject:
Request for Quote
LitVision Press is publishing a book of mine called Bukowski Never Did This:
A Year in the Life of an Underground Writer and His Family.
I have taken
a year off from work to promote the book and write a book about doing that.
I will have some product to sell, and am booking myself into book release parties,
book fairs, poetry readings, and so forth.
Root Doctor sold out of two
printings.
I think I can sell Root Doctor, and the CDs Dread Clampitt
and Wrack & Ruin, along with my book, and Dread Clampitt may be able
to sell some more booklets, at their live performances. They may sell some books,
too.
How much would you charge me to make 250 copies of Root Doctor?
You Gotta Have Art
Q: How do you like the cover art Bryan Hand did?
A: Brenda and I both like it more, the more we see it.
I think
it looks like an antique Florida postcard, with a mermaid from Weekiwachee Springs
being rescued by an underground, or underwater, in this case, writer.
He
is holding her out from his body, not embracing her.
She is gay, and hasn't
a clue. Smiling falsely. Wearing makeup.
The Creature From the Black
Lagoon doesn't like interlopers, in his territory. He is thinking, "Whiskey
tango foxtrot, Chief? What the fuck."
You know, if you're down
in Wakulla Springs, looking up, that's just what it looks like.
I am one
of the few men, besides Ricou Browning, who has been down in the spring without SCUBA
gear on.
Q: An old web hand.
A: Yes. Black McGoon.
Q: What will you do if Patrick Simonelli doesn't like Bryan's art?
A: Use it as a cover for DRAGGING UP.
Q: As Brenda says, all your books are about I Drive to Panacea.
A: Pretty much. "Why Do I Have To Look for a Job When I Am Writing
So Well?"
But this book is different. The hourglass is half full, not
half empty.
Q: Root Doctor paid for itself.
A: That's been a good performer for us.
Q: Joseph Campbell said in myth, the hero rescues damsels in distress from villains, comes back to tell the tale.
A: Yes, and sometimes the hero is not believed. The hero's accomplishments
are belittled. By scribes and Pharisees. Apparatchiks.
There are only so
many plots.
That's a good one.
The outcast versus the insiders.