We called Heather Palmer while she was cooking kale soup at her new apartment in Chicago the night before publication (tonight, 3 March 2011). Unfortunately, a recording error made it so you could only hear her! Oh well. Enjoy!
Transcript:
I think it's exciting, and it feels like the end of a big project for me. And that's exciting, you know? It's like, I guess that is natural.
I'm looking forward to what people have to say, whether it be bad or good, and I think -- I think of every publication as a learning experience, so, you know? I think it will be good.
The price? How much is it?
$1.50?
You know, because I like to read and I'm a reader and a writer, I think that I kind of like that, that it's not really expensive -- you know, I'm not -- I know that I'm not going to really make the big bucks -- you know, off a chapbook. So I like that will be able to buy it and read it and not have to break their bank accounts, you know, so I don't mind, I don't care.
I mean, are we underselling it? I don't know. I think it's worth more than a dollar-fifty, but that doesn't mean I want to sell it for more than that, you know?
What goes into it -- do you get -- if you buy the delux version of this, right, you get the chapbook and what? What do you get in addition to the chapbook?
Ohhh.
That was really telling. That sounds like a lot, especially the photographs, you know, it's like, my picture's worth money! I'm kidding.
Yeah -- but I've never actually made any kind of direct income from, indirectly from a picture, so that doesn't make sense when I said that, but -- trust me, I've never made that much money from a picture, but it's alright.
I hope people like it.
I think the cool stuff will be like the interview that we had and, you know, I think my voice adds to the story -- people have always said that about my writing, is that when I read it, it kind of takes on its own life, so I think that's pretty cool, you know? And it's only $2.50 -- what the heck!
Yeah, I think you feel closer to them, I mean -- I feel close to them because -- I try to write from honesty, which is kind of lame-sounding but -- they just -- it comes from this place of like -- I called it Mere Tragedies because it's like these small, daily events that, in their own right, are pretty mundane but they add up to this significant -- kind of this significant feeling of like being overwhelmed by how mundane and kind of tragic the dailies of life can be. And I, for awhile, was obsessed with that idea. So it's close to me. But now I'm glad that it's getting published and I have some distance from it and that also feels good.
Yeah -- and what a large obsession it is! So, I'm excited, I really am.
The new apartment is good.
What?
This is my first, yeah. Yep.
I know, it's a big deal. It's my boyfriend and I and our cat, which doesn't have a name, so we call it White Fatty, and so we're trying to make it work. I don't know how it's going to turn out. I'm making kale soup right now. So I'll live somehow.
Uh. I kind of squirrel. You know?
Promo action going on. That's good.
I'm totally looking forward to it and I hope people like it and they don't think it's total crap and if they do, fuck them! I don't care. No.
Let me know. Let me know what you think, how things are going, okay?
Okay. Bye.
