Poetry and Other Literary Endeavors

As I have mentioned previously, I enjoy writing.  Poetry is my favorite pursuit; however, I also have short stories and a few novels in the works.  While work and college currently take up a lot of my time, I do manage to get a poem completed and a few lines or pages of my novels here and there.

I wanted to take a moment to link and discuss my three poetry anthologies that I have on Amazon:

Phaser's Poetry Anthologies on Amazon

There are three listed, but allow me to take a moment to explain.  While I have self-published three anthologies, Echo of a Heartbeat is out of print, and while it was a worthy start, in all honesty, it isn't my best collection of work.  I wrote many of the poems in that anthology as early as age 12, not that it detracts from my work, but there were poems that were most likely not ready for print.

My second anthology, Times Throughout, is a culmination of what I consider to be the best poems featured in Echo of a Heartbeat, as well as poetry I wrote shortly before publication.  I think Times is a book that is great at representing the past and present of where I was going with my poetry at the time.

Nebula:  And Other Poems was a bit of a walk on the wild side for me.  It was fun designing the cover, which was an extreme distortion of my own eye.  I added, took away, and distressed several layers to create the finished product.  I designed all of the covers for my books, but I think this was my favorite one.  Many of the poems were published in various places around the internet, so I gathered them up, added a few more, and thus Nebula was born.

I have a fourth anthology in the works.  I have roughly 14 poems ready for it, but I plan to add many more.  None of these will be published beforehand, on the internet or otherwise, so these will be brand new for my readers.  I'm excited, and I hope that all 2 of the people who read my poetry will enjoy, ha ha.  Seriously, though, I do hope that everyone will enjoy the new book when it's ready.  I hope to get it out there and published soon.

Until next time!