Great Poetry Month Giveaway! Leave a Comment, Win a Book!
I’m finally putting up my post for the big poetry month giveaway (as described here on Kelli’s blog) so please leave a comment so you can win a book (or two, or three!) I’ll be using a random number generator to pick the winner the first week of May (but I’m closing a house in the first few days of May, so if I’m a day or two off, have patience!)
So, a little about me. I’ve written four books of poetry, Becoming the Villainess (Steel Toe Books, 2006,) She Returns to the Floating World (Kitsune Books, 2011,) Unexplained Fevers (forthcoming from Kitsune Books, 2013) and another book I’m still in process with on Oak Ridge and robots. I’m a poet obsessesed with persona, with pop culture, with the spaces between, with women who turn into foxes and disappear. I write, I review, I teach, I edit, I read. I try to become better. Every book I write I try to take a step in a new direction.
1. The first book I’m giving away is my own second book, She Returns to the Floating World. It’s full of meditations on Japanese folk tales, the role of the female icon in anime movies, women who transform themselves, lovesickness, tragedy, and heroism. Plus a little about Knoxville, imagined voyages, marraige, and dreams. From Kitsune Books, cover art by talented Rene Lynch.
2. The second book I’m giving away is a signed copy of Marie-Elizabeth Mali’s Steady My Gaze is compassionate, spiritual in the most interesting way, interested in Jung’s archetype, in love. No one who reads this book walks away unmoved. From Tebot Bach.
Okay, go ahead, comment away and good luck to you! You may also receive one of the following: The Haiku Handbook, a various literary magazine, or another poetry book of my choosing. You know, depending on how big the box I have to ship stuff is!
A couple of things – news around the net, children being born. etc…
The first order of business is to say welcome to the new baby boy my older brother Chuck and his wife Melinda just brought into the world! Congrats! It’s been 20 years since my last nephew was born, so it is nice to have another baby in the family. (No pic – or even name – yet!)
I’ve been in, I admit, a bit of a tizzy since the new book came out. I’ve woken up in a panic at 4:30 in the morning every day for a week or two. I have dreams that involve, I’m ashamed to say, Amazon rankings. Yes, having a book can make you crazy, I think I remember that from the first time, but it’s been so long I’d forgotten. It’s like being in love – or, yes, having a new baby – you can’t eat, you can’t sleep, you just want to be around the new book all the time. It’s all a bit surreal, and I need to focus on my next projects to keep me sane and grounded. Always more writing to be done, that’s the truth. (And thanks to everyone who has been buying the book – I really appreciate it and hope you like it! And to those of you who have said nice things about it on Amazon and Goodreads. And those of you who have listened to me ramble on. Many thanks to all of you!)
Thanks so much to Kelli for her “Thankful Thursday” post on me and She Returns to the Floating World, she is definitely a friend to be thankful for! And who else would pose with me in my dime-store tiaras?
Interview at Fringe Magazine, Sandy Longhorn’s kind words about the book, and more news!
Fringe Magazine today features an interview with me by Rachel Dacus (a very good interviewer, by the way) so you may want to go over and read it! You can learn all about inspiration, revision processes, video game heroines, paper books and the zombie apocalypse, and more!
Did I mention my book is available now on Amazon? No longer just pre-order, but actually available? Yes, it is! Go buy a copy! I’m watching that “Hot 100 New Books in Poetry” list these days…
Sandy Longhorn promises that my book will inspire you to write poems! Well, sort of. Check out her kind words about She Returns to the Floating World.
