Another fair wrapped. Next Nov 14th, back at the Tom Brown Arena. I didn’t try to talk to everyone, or man the table every minute, nor did I get to every table I intended, getting caught up in conversations, but it’s all good.
I finished the first printing of Mono at 52 copies and sold a bunch. So that was nice. Last year I barely covered the cost of the table. This year was more normal, just under $300 sold from everything and a whack of new books and chapbooks to read.
New chapbooks: T, W & O (Puddles of Sky Press, 2026) from Michael e. Casteels delivered at the fair. Sold a handful of those, pictured below.
I made another printing of last fall’s Crime and Ornament since it sold out last year, but this time with trimmed pages and staple binding.
I am at a loss of how to get these images to display in any orderly fashion but here’s a couple crowd shots. Since one vendor said I photograph him each year in time lapse until he dies, I’ve been more hesitant to rigorously catalogue all the regulars.
Can’t seem to get text between photos or captions, heaven or WordPress help me, but there’s a phafours author, Tamsym, dropping by, and Sonya with a photo op of buying the first copy of Mono. And the bottom one is Luminita and I sharing a table. She brought her tanka and haiku books and her cards she made.
If you cannot afford, or cannot wait, an ebook version of Mono is at digitally yours.