Getting Your Book Reviewed, Plus a Review of my First Book
- At February 17, 2015
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Have you ever wondered how you can up your chances of getting your book reviewed? Kelly Davio and I give a few tips on how you can increase your odds here at the Gailey and Davio Writers’ Services Blog.
It’s royalties time again and my royalty notices have been trickling in from my various publishers. I feel lucky to have any royalties at all, honestly, and I don’t count on them, but they always feel like a nice bonus at the beginning of the year. Poetry book royalties, in case you were not aware, are usually fairly modest but they’re not mythological – and can serve as a good reminder to not give up on your older books…
And one more reminder of that came in the form of this – this week I had a new review of Becoming the Villainess, my first book, that came out in 2006, from RabbitReader. Thanks to Jim McKeown for that! So the lifespan of a poetry book’s reviews can be very long, sometimes up to and including seven or eight years!
And the passing of Phil Levine was saddening, and also a reminder that nothing lasts forever, life is short but art is long and all that, and the kind of legacy we want to leave behind. He certainly left behind an abundance of good will and a legacy of kindness, which I think is pretty admirable.
Well, I’m off to visit another dentist in the hopes he will work on me without kicking me out to a hospital! We shall see. Wish me luck!
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.
