Nothing as Something

I just had another brilliant idea.
Negations book cover

I could republish Negations as a blog, of course.  That would be more your type of “thing,” these days.  But I still have an allegiance to the book as a book.  As an object.  Of course it didn’t sell all that well the first time around. 

But then it hit me - what that means in your marketing vocabulary is scarcity, and what that means is desirability, luxury.  Oh it is brilliant!!  There will only be a very limited number of them available, signed of course, available to pre-order.  And then that will be it.  A limited edition printing, all numbered and signed, “art” books.  But that’s not even the best part — no. 

The best part is this: I decided that since it will be a book again it may as well really look like a book, nice and old, with leather bindings and a bit of decay.  And then I decided instead of making new books that look old, I will use ACTUAL OLD BOOKS.  Yes — I am scouring the sidewalk stands and used bookshops now for old, very faded, laughably insignificant books, scraping the pages to further obscure what’s left of the text — and printing my new Negations right on top of them.  I will negate the past with my Negations!