How Not to Be a Bestseller
Coming June 2025!
Finn Mott
How Not to Be a Bestseller is a genre-defying poetry collection that fractures the self into archetypes—the poet, the comic, and the survivor—each navigating a body and mind shaped by chronic illness and emotional trauma. Finn Mott blends memoir, verse, and stand-up to weave a raw, unflinching tapestry of identity, displacement, and defiance.
Vulnerable, raunchy, and unapologetically twisted, How Not to Be a Bestseller is part personal exorcism, part cultural reckoning. It spirals through three looping narratives of grief, slipping between forms and voices in a language that unravels as it tries to contain pain. This is the kitchen sink approach reimagined—chaotic, desperate, and deeply human.
Mott doesn’t just tell a story—he commodifies the self to expose and critique the very systems demanding that commodification. What remains is a brutal, beautiful exploration of what it means to live in a body, perform survival, and sell one’s pain.
Paperback, 180 pages
Cover and interior design by Inkspiral Studios