- At August 17, 2005
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Just got back from the Reel to Read reading at On the House, which was a blast! Had some old friends show up unexpectedly (thanks, Lana and Colleen!) and the other readers, hip and funny Besty Aoki (who had on great boots – you should have seen them, R. Loudon) and Derek Sheffield ,were fun to listen to. And, people actually bought chapbooks – thanks everyone! – which always makes you feel loved and appreciated. The space was really relaxed and easy, and the organizer, Larisa, very professional. So I recommend the reading series to one and all.
Onto the good news I’ve been promising:
I got a call Sunday from the publisher of Steel Toe Books in Kentucky. They have offered to publish “Becoming the Villainess” next spring. So, bookbookbookbookbookbook, yaay! I’ve been scrambling around to find cover art already.
Also, in a strange twist of fate, they are also publishing a friend of mine’s manuscript, Martha Silano. Kentucky readers love Seattle girls? Who knew?
That is all. Except, can anyone tell me whether I’m supposed to withdraw poems from lit mags if they are in the manuscript that’s coming out next spring, or send a letter, or what?
Full moon. Glenn took me out for duck confit after the reading to celebrate, and I bought chocolate-covered madeleines. Several good days in a row. Also, several paying assignments have flowed in. So perhaps this year, after six or seven or eight months of not-so-much-goodness/surgery/health problems/etc, will tilt in my favor after all.
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
Suzanne
I knew it, I knew it, I knew it! You R O C K! Yippppeeee! I’m not surprised either. Let me be the first to order a signed copy!! XO
gina
Congratulations! Awesome news! –Ask your press, but you don’t need to withdraw those poems from lit mags, esp. if the poems will appear before the book comes out. The rights usually revert to you once the poems are published. If not, you’ll just need copyright permission from the magazine, a little note or a signed form. At least that’s how it worked for me. Again: awesome!
Anne
Bookbookbook! Congratulations! 🙂
Emily Lloyd
Supercalifragilisticexpialodocious! Or, more to point comix-wise, Pow! Bam! Splat! Biff!
Congratulations!
Ivy
That’s wonderful news! Well done! 🙂
C. Dale
OMG! Congratulations! What great news. And you don’t need to withdraw the poems. I would, however, send a note to each mag telling them the poems that are in this now forthcoming book. It might make a difference for the mags in terms of accepting and scheduling the poems, etc.
David Vincenti
OutSTANDING news! Patience + Talent + Patience + Hard Work + Patience pays off again!
Steven D. Schroeder
Good deal, Jeannine. Congratulations!
Charles
Congratulations–I look forward to reading it. 🙂
Artichoke Heart
How marvelous! Congratulations!
Simmons B. Buntin
Your book publisher will definitely want you to keep the poems in the lit mags, with an updated bio mentioning the poems, as that’s also added marketing for the book itself when the mags come out.
Congrats!
Simmons B. Buntin
Sorry, that should be an updated bio (in the lit mags) mentioning the book!
Peter
Jeannine: great news! Congrats congrats congrats! Will it contain the Female Superhero poems, too? Or all new stuff?
jeannine
Thanks everyone – you are all great!
And thanks Gina, C. Dale, and Simmons for advice on the poems – I started sending out notes today.
And Suzanne – I’m holding the first copy for you 🙂
Peter – It has some of the Female Comic Book Superheroes poems, but not everything from the chapbook, plus a lot of darker stuff.
Wendy Wisner
Jeannine — I thought that’s what it was! Yay! This is outstanding news!
steve mueske
Congratulations, Suzanne. As for your question, contact the journals and request an update on your submissions and explain why. You’ll probably get your submission read quicker.
Jennifer
Oh, wow … I’ve been *really* out of the loop a few days … this is HUGE!!!!!!!! Coffee on me to celebrate … hell, let’s go over to Queen Mary for High Tea.
jeannine
Thanks Steve – and Jennifer, I’ll definitely take you up on high tea 🙂
shanna
i’m so late…but congratulations!
jeannine
Thanks Shanna – I’m looking forward to getting my copy of your Winnow Press book soon!