BACK COVER | INSIDE
edited by Vesna Mostovac
Published in 2001
63 pages
8.5" x11"
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Date of birth?
December 12th.

How do you decide the price of your books?
I priced my books to cover my costs.

What goes into choosing a cover? Back cover blurb?
I love silk screens, so that's what I did with the cover. I asked my friend Golda to come up with a line for the back, her writing is very visual and dreamlike, I thought it was appropriate.

What's your editing/refining process?
Since I was doing this for myself, I left it open, did minor editing, left it up to the artist. Lorenz, Fiona and I would meet on a weekly basis to discuss content and cover design, it was a lot of fun. At times there were technical problems, some of the thumbnails for the cover were too detailed and would get lost in the silkscreen process and had to be re-drawn. One of the artist had edited himself, by submitting his more subdued work. It was a little awkward asking him for his more prolific drawings. Getting the book print ready was a bit of an ordeal, I learned a lot from it.

What was your print run and how much did it cost? How did you raise the money to publish?
The print run was approximately 485. The cost was between $3500 to 4500. Money? by working hard at my job.

What have you done to promote it?
We sent press packages to many newspapers and magazines. Word of mouth is always good. Marginal Distribution has it in their catalogue.

How can people get your book now?
The Beguiling (Peter Birkemoe, being such a great supporter, purchased 50 to 100 books, I can't remember how many, I love that store), Pages, events like Canzine.

What will you do differently next time, if anything?
Nothing.