New book: 50 Sonnets

This afternoon, after doing a little last minute tinkering … I have posted my new book of poetry online. The new book can be bought either on Smashwords in all eletronic formats or if you’re the kind who would like a real book, a paperback is available through Lulu.

Here is the cover I chose to go with:

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Finished another book!

Less than five months ago, I decided to start writing a new book of poetry. The last book I posted online for sale was as collection of poems that I mashed together like a best of rock album. This time out, every poem I wrote was brand new… I wanted this to be a book of entirely brand new poems.

Then I made things more interesting. Not only would I write new poems, but all the poems in this book would be sonnets. I would use the same rhyme scheme for each poem (abab, cdcd, efef, gg) and I wouldn’t be finished this new book until I wrote fifty (50) of them. I started this ambicious goal in early November and earlier this afternoon, I finished writing sonnet number fifty.

Check it out:

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