Fay Roberts Poet: November 2022

Tuesday 22 November 2022

Self-Promo!

(Or: I made an ebook of Spectral, the “concept album but it’s poetry” book I produced, published by Burning Eye Books earlier this year, and I should actually tell people about it...)

a cartoon of a pale, faceless person with long, white hair in black crop-top and trousers, alternately flinging their left and right foot high above their head. An arc of rainbow follows the path of their leg each time.

All content is almost exactly the same as the paperback (except where I explicitly talk about it being an ebook); the QR codes are interactive links straight from the interface; all the images (yes, including every content warning symbol) have relevant image descriptions; and my accidental test user seems delighted at the functionality (I think she quite liked the poems as well!), so I should probably tell y’all where to get hold of one!

Digital sketch of a pair of hands and a small amount of forearm. There are three sets of overlapping outlines with spread fingers - one with fingers pointing up and somewhat back, one with fingers slanting downward, one, fainter, somewhere between those two positions. The fingers are somewhat lined and wearing rings on middle finger (left hand) and thumb (right hand), with a double band of some kind, complete with buckles, just below the wrist of the right.

It’ll be out on Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, B&N, etc. soon, but for now you can order an ePub file direct from Lulu, the distributor, here. (Also I get a bigger chunk of the money, if I’m brutally honest.)

And yes, the audiobook is on its way (audio editing remains my slowest skill).

Inside a very dark green border is a series of jagged circles of different colours. The whole implies a mandala, or a rather geometrically exact flower against a patterned, greenish background. The outer "petals" are yellow shading through orange to red, with triangular points at either end of this spectrum, outlined in black to give an impression of depth through shadow. The inner stamens are shades of very light aqua and teal in the centre, in a series of quite subtle, tiny waves, moving outward to a textured purple. At the top of the image is the word 'SPECTRAL' and at the bottom the name 'Fay Roberts'

Okay, I’m going to shuffle away, feeling slightly awkward now, because telling people I’ve made something I’m proud of always does this...