Friday, August 25, 2023

Kindle Special FRI-SUN Aug. 25-27

heat dome is lifting
and we breathe - time to peddle
this kindle special

https://www.amazon.com/Pluribus-Haiku-Anthology-3487-ebook/dp/B08X2YRQB2

Monday, August 21, 2023

September Tuesday



A hundred haiku from that one horrific day

$4.70 + shipping on Amazon
$1.99 on Kindle
Free on Kindle Unlimited

Monday, May 08, 2023

In a bit of a marketing coup, I got e pluribus haiku anthology to be rated #8 for Japanese Poetry & Haiku (https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text/7588868011), but you have to look fast, these things will change maybe two or three times a day. This is haiku, and it's digital; my paperback ratings will take a while before they do that well. But if you follow the links, you will see my pride and joy, a book of 3487 haiku.

One gets a marketing coup briefly by getting several people to download it and read it at the same time. Ordinarily I do it one at a time, and then I get a pretty good rating that disappears quickly. If several are downloading it close to each other, you get a slightly better rating that disappears a little less quickly. By the time you're reading this, it's probably still a pretty good rating, at least for me. I've never had #1, though it got #1 in Britain once.

The secret to getting people to read your haiku is, get to know them and if they like you, and you put it in front of them, they won't say no even if haiku is not their favorite thing. I say this because for most people, haiku is not their favorite thing. I could have this book right out in the open for a while, and lots of people would see it, and not download it. But it's really an amazing book and I'm proud of it.

Look down into this site for some samples from the early days of writing haiku that has season clues, and geographical clues. All linked. And in some kind of order, though many of the links are dead here and will probably not be upgraded. Look at it as a kind of e pluribus haiku online museum.

Thank you!

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

e pluribus haiku anthology

Kindle Special
WED-FRI Feb. 22-24
https://www.amazon.com/Pluribus-Haiku-Anthology-3487-ebook/dp/B08X2YRQB2

Monday, January 16, 2023

Unusual success

What you see here is the new cover, new branding, for e pluribus haiku anthology. It has 3487 haiku, true story, just about every haiku that was written for all the previous versions, eph 2012, eph 2013, eph 2014, eph 2015, eph 2016, eph 2017 & eph 2018. The last three of those are still for sale (see below) but may be retired soon since the entire collection is included in the anthology, and since there is no particular significance to the years except their being the years I wrote them; those years are rapidly fading into the past and aren't served particularly by the haiku since the haiku don't reflect on the years themselves.

OK, on to the success. I finally got the nerve to throw this book out on the table in my general indie-author-share community, for various reasons, one being that in the heart of winter I wanted to read longer things and this is my only truly long work. I'd been a little shy about calling myself a poet, etc. Long story short - they like it, they're reading it, and even the British among them are enjoying it. It has a review now, maybe more. It's in the top ten among British haiku. It's enjoying success in the USA as well.

All of this is on kindle, the kindle version. I don't sell a whole lot of paperbacks, but I've decided not to worry about it. Paperback success will come when it comes. For the moment, just to have people read it is a miracle.

Check it out. 3487 of them. Many started out on this site (you can find them if you look). Here though we celebrate the fact that they can link. They can just be haiku, too.

Saturday, December 10, 2022

e pluribus haiku

This is what remains of a set of books that ran roughly from 2012 to 2018. Most all of the haiku, 3487, are included in the first one. The originals are collected in the last one. All are classics. Covers have changed a little over the years but the haiku inside have changed very little. They are done in a unique style; the purpose is to capture the spirit of each of the fifty states within them.




e pluribus haiku anthology
3487 haiku - 3487 moments, one eye-opening journey
$5.99 + shipping on Amazon
$4.99 on kindle
Free on Kindle Unlimited




e pluribus haiku 2018
1000 original haiku
$3.95 + shipping on Amazon
$2.99 on kindle
Free on Kindle Unlimited




e pluribus haiku 2017
1000 haiku from fifty states and the District of Columbia
$3.95 + shipping on Amazon
$3.59 on kindle
Free on Kindle Unlimited




e pluribus haiku 2016
1000 moments, one journey - 1000 haiku
$3.95 + shipping on Amazon
$1.99 on kindle
Free on Kindle Unlimited




e pluribus haiku
The original - As compiled for performances ~2012
$3.99 + shipping on Amazon
$2.99 on kindle
Free on Kindle Unlimited

Prices may vary

Saturday, September 24, 2022

e pluribus haiku 2018

e pluribus haiku 2018
FREE on kindle
One day only, SAT. SEPT. 24
https://www.amazon.com/pluribus-haiku-2018-thousand-moments-ebook/dp/B07DCJD3KP