First, sunshine! Yay! Finally!
In the media and sort of related:
I made the local paper, but they misspelled my name. Despite that, a good article – sign your high-school writer up today! Fresh air, sunshine, the ocean, and comic book/mythology creative writing exercises…
http://www.ptleader.com/main.asp?SectionID=101&SubSectionID=329&ArticleID=21140&TM=56653.35
This warms my heart. The rise of girl geeks AND the article name-checks Buffy:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/140457?GT1=43002
(Update: Also in the media, poet Aimee Nez has a post up at the Book Critics Circle blog you should check out:
http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2008/06/small-press-spotlight-aimee.html)
And congrats to my Mom, who just graduated with her Phd!
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.
