Book Launch This Thursday in Seattle, Plus a Little Residency News!
- At April 12, 2015
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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So, the big Seattle book launch and party for The Robot Scientist’s Daughter is this Thursday, 7 PM, at The Jack Straw Cultural Center, for those of you in the area – I hope you can come! Evan J. Peterson, our MC, may, I’m told, may have a robot costume planned, and Kelli Agodon is always a delight to hear from – plus, my folks are flying out from Ohio to be there – craziness! Champagne (well, Prosecco, anyway) reception following, plus, robot swag!
Now, while everyone was at AWP, I was feeling a little sad about missing out, but I did get some good news – I’m going to a residency this September! A working marine biology field station on the San Juan Islands that also hosts writers, artists, and scientists called The Whitely Center. This is the first writing residency I’ve tried to go to since years ago at Centrum, so I am so excited and have high hopes about finishing up this next apocalypse-themed book manuscript I’ve been working on for the last couple of years.
So, hope you are all having a good April/National Poetry Month so far, and if you’re not too tired from AWP, go out and check out some poetry at your local library and bookstore. Go to a poetry reading and buy the reader some coffee, if not their book.
Jennifer Barricklow
Congratulations on both accounts! I wish I were near enough to come for the book launch – launch parties are always so much fun! Have a lovely time soaking it all up – you’ve worked hard for it. 🙂
Jeannine Gailey
Thank you, Jennifer!