Yesterday Glenn threw me a little surprise-birthday party, just a little one at our house, but it was a lot of fun. There are not enough parties in the world, I think.
Michaela Eaves, the cover artist of Becoming the Villainess, brought me a bottle of wine with this label – which I don’t know if you can read in the picture: “Drinking the Villainess – Evil Tastes Good.” So funny, these artists! (Also, yes, that is a cat-coaster. Shut up. It was itself a gift of birthdays past.)
My cat Shakespeare was a hit with the ladies. He’s a fluffy little prima donna for sure.
Also, I am applying for jobs. It’s been a year since I graduated, and I think I am ready to get into the market again. I still have a gigantic stack of books to review – next up, Pattiann Rogers’ Wayfare.
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.
Peter
How Lovely. ANd what a great idea: a book cover for a wine bottle label.
Happy Birthday!