Cover Art and First Blurb for Field Guide to the End of the World!! Plus a new review…

Here’s the cover reveal for Field Guide to the End of the World – now upcoming in September 2016 from Moon City Press! The artist is Charli Barnes, and I told her I wanted a combo of vintage science-y field guide books and graphic-novel-sci-fi-futuristic – I think she did a great job!

And here’s the first blurb for the book, from one of my poetry superheroines, Matthea Harvey:

“In Field Guide to the End of the World, Jeannine Hall Gailey allies herself with the mutants of the world—from zombie stripper clones to teen girl vampires—but unlike them, she is haunted by the possibility of the world and the self coming to an end. Wry, heartsick and shot through with black humor (Martha Stewart’s “Guide to Apocalypse Living” dispenses advice on “storing munitions in attractive wicker boxes”), these poems about transformation and extinction mournfully remind us via post-apocalypse postcards, notes and instructions, “we were not here first, we will not be here last.”

Also, a review of The Robot Scientist’s Daughter on Strange Horizons by John Amen might be my favorite review yet. Check it out.

I’ve been a little under the weather (did I finally get a bug from my AWP trip?) the last couple of days, but still managed to put in another offer on a house today (this one a little bit of a fixer-upper, which we may still lose to an all-cash offer, because that’s the market these days.) Our spring has been so beautiful it was tough to spend a day resting indoors, but at least I got some poetry judging done for an undergrad contest and had some reading time. Wishing you all a wonderful week!