So we’ve got a facebook page, with around 200 fans, which is pretty good for a small press that publishes one book ever 5 or 6 months. Problem is, like pretty much every other single company in the entire world, we still haven’t cracked the “how to get your legions of facebook/twitter/soon-to-be-defunct-social-media-platform fans to actually buy your products” nut. It’s always great when a company offers you 30% off bug spray or dishwasher detergent if you mention their tweet, but 30% off something you don’t need is still 70% a waste of money (I think – I’m not exactly sure about that math). So anyway, we’ve got hundreds of loyal followers that – like most sane people – are interested in listening to my (and Justine’s) gripping updates, but less eager to give us their money.
So, to combat this problem, back when we first announced Tirez a la ligne, Celine for sale, I decided that I’d come up with an offer exclusive to people that ordered the book based on the Facebook post about it. The deal was that any order placed referencing Facebook would also receive a love poem written inside an outline of my hand, with complimentary epithets written on each finger. Pretty cool, right? Can you imagine how much something like this will be worth when Chance Press is as famous as I’m sure you feel it deserves to be?
Well, only two people took us up on the offer, making these hand poems among the rarest things ever published by our press. We don’t even have copies of them (making them the only thing published at all that we don’t have publisher’s copies of). So, given that no one will ever see them besides the two people that ordered them, I figured I would post pics here… enjoy! (I’ll post these on Facebook too, just so people can see what they missed out on. Maybe it will get us more fans!)
