sales and tales

The poet was a memoir monger.

sales quotas

One way to cut back on the superfluous poetry books being published would be to make it a rule that you have to sell 75% of the print run before you can publish another title. For print-on-demand books, the rule would be you must sell 250 copies (not counting extended family) before you can perpetrate another title.

the close

In sales, when the close is spoken, we say the next one to speak loses. Don’t speak past your last line.