Return of the Doodle

The Doodle is back!! Yes indeed, I’m back to doodle poetry writing.  These doodles will be in no particular order, however I wanted to discuss the process a bit if I could.  

So about 8 months ago I got a part time job in the mental health field; no I’m not a therapist, but I’ve worked with people with different behaviors for a while now. In any case after finding a groove for the job, and figuring out the timing, I started writing #vss poems. For people unfamiliar with the hastag, it stands for Very Short Story, and usually is no more characters than a tweet.  I like to write them daily to keep my poetic skills sharp. 

So as I found myself with some “free time” at this part time job, I started to doodle around the poems. And I thought I haven’t done stuff like this since I was a para-professional years ago. And I kept going; heck ya’ll, I even bought some brown glitter markers lol! 

As I kept writing and doodling, my brain went into creative overdrive, I thought, what if I did a book of poetry with some concrete poems in them. I thought of Shel Silverstein and the books he’s written.  Yes, they’re children's books but they’re also really good reads. Then I thought about a former co-worker who talked about a book (which name I can’t remember) he read that had concrete poems for adults.

Why not?

Why not?

Why, not?

Therefore, my doodles may just end up in the next book I work on, and that book will definitely have a different feel to it.  I need to figure out some digital formatting issued, but at the end of the day I’m like ‘why not?’

Granted, I’m at the start of an online book tour, and writing some short stories, but hey, this idea is in the head.

I hope you enjoy the doodles and the poetry, yes, you may have to flip your phone, tablet, or laptop to really read them all, but hey, it’s life…let’s live it with fun! 

Tomorrow The Opinion Begins, The Audiobook Tour

 

It’s currently 10pm in Denver, and I’m nervously excited about my first book tour in a very long time.  This time last year I was writing Lessons & Libations. This year I’m doing my first audio book tour.  Boy, how times have changed. 

Back in 2015 I wrote and self published my first book and did an online book tour with Goddess of Fish. Now audio books are a big rave and I’m doing my book tour with Love Books Tour.  Back in the day, it was all book bloggers, today, it’s all social media, IG mostly.

With this being my first audio book, I am very curious to see what the response will be. Being the spoken word poet I am, I decided to be the narrator, with a bit of help in the voice department. This is a very curious time for the way people are consuming art. So many things are digital, and the art of reading actual words on the page is changing. Audio books are very popular. Producing an audio book is different, it’s kind of like recording an album, but there’s no music, at least with this effort there won’t be.

Tomorrow morning I’ll receive the first of many opinions of what readers/listeners think. The line up has been posted on my IG but I’ll list them here as well.

• 2/26 @MelisBookReviews

• 2/27 @bookishandcaffeinatedintx

• 2/27 @readingwithbeagles

• 2/28 @piggindani_reads

• 3/1 Tea Leaves & Book Leaves

• 3/1 @bookwormwhitloc86

• 3/2 @pause_theframe

• 3/3 @caits_reading_nook

• 3/3 @book_a_holic_17

• 3/4 @rachaelreads2025

I’m not familiar with the readers, which is also what makes this very exciting. I just know that I put a lot into writing these short stories, and a lot into recording them. Like them, love them, or hate them, some truth will be revealed in a few short hours. 

I believe Love Book Tours has done an admirable job promoting the tour and they’re a very easy company to work with. They’re based out of the UK so it’ll be interesting to see what readers they get and what reactions will be. 

Thanks for reading, and if you’re on IG follow me @authorclarencebarbee and check out reactions along with me.  Heck, I might even do some video reactions to the reviews

Until next time beautiful people who read!