You are indeed a wordsmith. High Kill is filled with song lyrics that had me wanting to kidnap your Muse and put her to work for me. :)
Absorb each hit, just take it, let it be.
And rest my mind, let dreams stay true in sleep.
Love it - and the echoes of Thomas Merton's Dark Night of the Soul. He was a child when his father died and he could do nothing but 'take it, just take it, like a dumb (mute) post.' (No no no I don't want to google the exact quote!) Let's just say you're in good company when it comes to articulating the searing wounds of thorns, the petals floating in better breezes. :)
Thank you, Carol. You always say such precious words about my writing, and I love you for it.
Speaking of High Kill, looky here! Proof copy!
Wow! Now that's progress!
With Amazon beating up authors and reviewers, I'm kinda glad I dragged my feet so long on publishing myself. Now I'm thinking BLOCKCHAIN and crypto payment options - @geke and others have talked about this for more than a year, but I fell out of the hundred + Discord groups I was in. Just couldn't keep up...
I don’t like blockchain at all for long form publishing options. There’s no way to control which front end displays your work or prevent them from profiting from it.
I never would have thought of that. I was thinking of selling books via blockchain with crypto transfers as payment. Long posts at Steemit are supposed to be broken up into smaller posts, so a whole book wouldn't work here without being serialized (ugh!) and there'd be no way to charge money for the book - just hope the author earned enough in upvotes and whale slaps to buy groceries.