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With National Poetry Month in full swing, I’m pleased to share that my first poetry book, Ariel’s Song: Published Poems, 1987 – 2023, is now available in paperback on Barnes & Noble.
Here’s the link:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ariels-song-dawn-pisturino/1145034267
Also available on Amazon and in the Lulu Bookstore.
Have a beautiful spring day! Happy Solar Eclipse!
Dawn Pisturino
April 8, 2024
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Welcome!
I’m excited to share that my first poetry book, Ariel’s Song: Published Poems, 1987 – 2023, is now live on multiple platforms. Here’s where the Ebook and the Paperback are available right now–and all the links!
Just click on the links!
Goodreads (Ebook and Paperback)
Paperback –
Amazon (U.S. and International Stores)
Lulu Bookstore
EPUB – when you buy the EPUB file, you must download it and send it to your reader.
PDF – when you buy the PDF, you must download it. As far as I know, a PDF can be sent to your Kindle.
Ebook
Amazon (U.S. and International Stores)
Barnes & Noble (1)
Barnes & Noble (2)
Everand (Scribd.) (Ebook subscription service) Read Free for 30 Days.
Kobo (1) (U.S. and international stores) (free with Kobo Plus)
Kobo (2) (U.S. and international stores)
My Shopping.com (Australia)
Palace Marketplace (Not-For-Profit Digital Lending Library)
Smashwords (Ebook subscription service)
Tolino (Thalia), a German company based in Hamburg
Vivlio, a French company based in Lyon
Thank you, everyone, for your positive love and support. I can’t tell you how much it means to me to share this journey with all of you.
Happy Reading!
Dawn Pisturino
March 23, 2024
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Hello!
Tomorrow, at the official book launch, I will provide all the links where the Ebook and print book are available.
Thank you for visiting!
Dawn Pisturino
March 22, 2024
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Launch Press Release
Horse Mesa Press
Dawn Pisturino
www.dawnpisturino.wordpress.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Horse Mesa Press Announces the Launch of Ariel’s Song: Published Poems, 1987 – 2023
Golden Valley, AZ – Horse Mesa Press is excited to announce the launch of Ariel’s Song: Published Poems, 1987 – 2023 by Dawn Pisturino. The official launch date for the Ebook edition is March 23, 2024. The Lulu edition is available in the Lulu Bookstore. The IngramSpark print release will be announced at a later date.
Ariel’s Song is a collection of intensely personal poems written between 1987 and 2023 that features various styles and themes, from twisted limericks that make you laugh to traditional sonnets that make you think and feel the world around you. There is something for everyone to enjoy: dark poems, love poems, nature poems, funny poems, poems about death and grief, poems about abuse and heartache, children’s poems, and experimental poems.
This book is lovingly dedicated to Ariel Therese Pisturino, lyric soprano, music educator, and book lover.
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Dawn Pisturino
March 21, 2024
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Hello, Everyone!
I wanted to launch my first poetry book with both the Ebook and paperback live on all platforms, but IngramSpark is taking its time with the proofs, and I don’t want to wait since the Ebook is already live. I’ll have a separate launch when the IngramSpark paperback is up and running on all platforms. This is an experiment and learning experience, after all!
Thank you for your patience.
Dawn Pisturino
March 20, 2024
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I’m excited to announce that my first poetry collection has been published!
At the end of 2023, I realized that 65 of my poems had been published — enough to compile a collection of poems. I used Atticus to design and format the book. When the manuscript was complete, I sent it to an independent publisher (with her permission). She told me she could not publish the book because all the poems had been previously published. She was concerned about copyright concerns and felt that Amazon would give me a hard time. I reassured her that I own the rights to all my poems (which I do) because they were all published with non-exclusive rights (the rights revert to the author on publication). She offered to create the files, but I had already done the work.
I considered using Amazon KPD and dealing with whatever hassles they gave me, but I didn’t like that idea. After days of pondering my options, I decided to follow a different path. I decided to use this book to learn about self-publishing and stay in control of the process. After all, if for some reason I couldn’t publish it, it was better to find out now. But I was determined to get it published.
1. I created my own imprint, Horse Mesa Press, which has been registered with the state of Arizona as a trade name so nobody else can use it.
2. I subscribed to Canva and created my own cover. Some people don’t recommend this, but I’ve seen some pretty awful covers designed by “professionals.” I know what I like. It took hours looking through public domain photos and artwork to find what I wanted. But if you don’t like the cover, please tell me!
3. I had to learn how to resize a PDF file and resize and adjust the dpi on photos.
4. I bought my own ISBN numbers.
5. I researched what other authors were doing.
6. Finally, I chose three paths to travel: Lulu, Draft2Digital, and IngramSpark.
7. I used Lulu as the testing ground. The company was really easy to work with. They produced a beautiful product. The Lulu EPUB, PDF, and paperback are currently available in the Lulu Bookstore. I wanted to get the Ebook onto Smashwords, so Draft2Digital was my next stop (they’re affiliated). D2D was easy to use with the Ebook, but not with the paperback. They accepted my print-ready book cover files but rejected all of my print-ready interior PDF files. My docx. file was not formatted for a finished project (and I wasn’t going to type up a whole new manuscript for them). The Ebook and paperback have gone smoothly with IngramSpark, but I had to use their cover generator to recreate the cover, and that was a nightmare. It took me four freaking hours! They are slow with processing but thorough. In fact, I just got an e-mail that I need to redo the back cover because some of the colors aren’t showing up. It’s very frustrating. Here’s where hiring a professional makes sense because they understand the technology better than I do. (Did I say this was a learning process?) Once the digital proof is processed and approved, they will send me the proof copy. Once that’s approved, they will publish the book.
8. I read that Lulu’s global distribution was not that great, so I passed on them and went with D2D and IngramSpark. Since I could only choose one company to get my book on Amazon, I chose IngramSpark. And yes, they got the Ebook onto Amazon and other venues without any issues. As soon as the print book is ready, they will get it onto Amazon, etc.
9. Although I had planned to launch the Ebook and print book together, I’m not sure how soon the IngramSpark print book will be ready, so I am going to launch them separately. Since several people have asked, the Ebook is available right now on Amazon and other platforms. The Lulu print book is available right now in the Lulu Bookstore.
I’m planning the official Ebook launch for Saturday,
March 23, 2024. Hope to see you then!
Dawn Pisturino
March 20, 2024
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