"A blow-by-blow account of what happened when two unassuming people decided to make a simple poetry book to sell out of the back of their car, this book provides both a how-to lesson in bookmaking and a consideration of books in a culture some call "postliterate." Detailed is how these people found themselves awash in a world of big distributors, techno-talking printers, expensive lawyers, aggressive agents, touchy authors, demanding journalists, fast-talking publicists, and other book-industry types, in a ride that was both hair-raising and exhilarating."