After a bit of a groggy and grumpy weekend (had a stomach bug/head cold Friday and Saturday and missed the Peter P./Rebecca L./Jared L reading because of it, ended up in bed at 7 PM two nights in a row) I was cheered when a friend sent me a link to a nice blog review of Becoming the Villainess:
http://greeniezona.livejournal.com/308739.html
Darker than Atwood? Hmmm, maybe I have to tone that down for the next book…
Trying again to get some submissions done before I go out of town for two weeks. Finishing up editing a book manuscript for someone, trying to put together a decent class presentation for the classes I’ll visit, catch up on e-mail, figure out what to read for the readings (some good combination of new and old work,) find a catsitter, find a place to rent in our new city of choice for November, and schedule all doctor appts etc. And maybe write something in between too. Okay, deep breaths, deep breaths…
On a professional note, if you’re in the Seattle general area and interested in volunteering as an editor (preferring some magazine experience, especially on the biz/fundraising side) at a great literary magazine, contact: editors at crabcreekreview dot org. Tell them you saw it on this blog. We’re actively looking for someone great to fill this role!
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.
