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<blockquote data-quote="HarryC13" data-source="post: 105054" data-attributes="member: 1477">OK, I stand properly corrected and chastized. Was not really angry so much as confused, mjp, and esart, sorry if my behavior was &quot;troll-like.&quot; And Bill, as you know, I have supported your fine work, including buying a copy of the Winans book just this week. Finally, Hosho, you're right. I sold more than 100 copies of anything when I was publishing TWICE.&nbsp; And I consider both to be flukes. Once was when I put out the Bukowski pamphlet. Of course, the name recognition helped, but mostly it was John Martin buying up 200 copies of the 400-copy run at a discount and having Buk sign them. The other instance was when I published Jim Daniels' book of baseball poems, The Long Ball. Daniels was well respected then and now in the English department at Carnegie Mellon University. His vast network of academic friends -- and his knack for self-promotion -- meant that we sold hundreds of them and I even had to reprint the book.But I digress. Apologies all around.&nbsp; I'm really not a bad guy ... but it did piss me off that somebody has to latch onto the fact that my publisher charges a reading fee. The one friggin' weakness that anyone could find ... you talk about me taking a crap on this forum, but I did feel rather that Bill was taking a potshot at my chapbook.&nbsp; Again, sorry for any hurt feelings and ruffled feathers. I'll go quietly now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HarryC13, post: 105054, member: 1477"] OK, I stand properly corrected and chastized. Was not really angry so much as confused, mjp, and esart, sorry if my behavior was "troll-like." And Bill, as you know, I have supported your fine work, including buying a copy of the Winans book just this week. Finally, Hosho, you're right. I sold more than 100 copies of anything when I was publishing TWICE. And I consider both to be flukes. Once was when I put out the Bukowski pamphlet. Of course, the name recognition helped, but mostly it was John Martin buying up 200 copies of the 400-copy run at a discount and having Buk sign them. The other instance was when I published Jim Daniels' book of baseball poems, [I]The Long Ball.[/I] Daniels was well respected then and now in the English department at Carnegie Mellon University. His vast network of academic friends -- and his knack for self-promotion -- meant that we sold hundreds of them and I even had to reprint the book. But I digress. Apologies all around. I'm really not a bad guy ... but it did piss me off that somebody has to latch onto the fact that my publisher charges a reading fee. The one friggin' weakness that anyone could find ... you talk about me taking a crap on this forum, but I did feel rather that Bill was taking a potshot at my chapbook. Again, sorry for any hurt feelings and ruffled feathers. I'll go quietly now. [/QUOTE]

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