Becoming the Villainess on the radio, and How to Pick Poetry Book Cover Art
- At March 19, 2015
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Thanks to Jim McKeown at KWBU in Texas for this feature on Becoming the Villainess, my first book of poetry.
And a new blog post up at the Gailey and Davio Writers’ Services blog on Poetry Book Cover Art. well, if you’ve ever struggled with what makes for good and interesting cover art for a poetry book, I hope it’ll be helpful!
Thanks to all of you who have bought The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, reviewed it on Amazon and Goodreads, or talked about it on your blog. I can’t tell you how much it perks up my day when I see something related to the new book! The first month of releasing a book feels so fraught with peril, to borrow the cliche – you worry no one will like it, or no one will talk about it, or no one will buy it or come to your readings…so any little lift kind of acts as a calming agent to that time of fraughtness.
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.
Allyson
Thanks for the cover art link. I have been pondering that lately.