This weird little book turned 10 years old this month. Kind of hard to believe. I made most of the poems on the bus to work and on my lunch break at my office job. Years ago I thought for sure it would probably be remaindered and go out-of-print. And yet, it’s still around after a decade. (Perhaps even more amazingly, I get a modest check for it once in a while…)

A few years ago I wrote about what I’ve learned from a decade of publishing. Not much to add to that, except:

1) Make sure when you publish a book you think you can live with it for a while.

2) Try to write books you want to read, yes, but also, if you can, ones only you can write.

3)  Have a little fun with it, if you can.

There really is nothing like that first book…