Goodreads Semifinalist and It’s About Time
- At November 11, 2013
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Well, thanks to your votes, Unexplained Fevers made it to the semifinalist round of the Goodreads Best Book of the Year Awards!
First of all, thank you! And second of all, if you get a chance, please vote in this semifinalist round to see if I can make the finals! (Much more competitive! Although I’m happy just to have made it on the same page as Tolkien, Billy Collins, Mary Oliver, et al.)
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-poetry-books-2013
Remember, voting for a small press poetry book is like hugging kittens!
On other news, still sick (achoo!) and slowly, slowly adjusting to the Mac (I hate the “transparent” windows that make you not know whether you’re in Word or an e-mail file or what at a time – and I can’t figure out how to compare old files by date (like, say, versions of my book manuscript) without Windows Explorer – Apple’s pretty lame “Finder” does not compare. See? Little things, but things that are totally stopping me from being able to work!) Maybe I should just go the Windows for Mac route?
I’m trying my best to get well, and rest – today’s dry, warmer weather should help (we’ve had forty-ish rain for a week now) because Thursday I’ll be teaching twice – once, by Skype to East Coast college students at noon, and later, at 6 PM at Ballard Library for the It’s About Time series, I’ll be talking all Writer’s Craft-y about persona poetry.
I wish I had the video for you of the Bushwick Bush Club musician’s reading and song pairing, because I read terribly but Matt Price, the musician I was paired with, created a lovely song based on my Robot Scientist Daughter persona poems with a song that began with something like “My dear, you’re a lovely child/but you’re only a robot” and had a great tonal balance between sentiment and hilarity. You’ll see when I post it. There’s brain and heart dissections, rebooting children, and portals in necks. Good times.
And, of course, it is Veteran’s Day, and I’d like to take a moment to thank all who serve – including many of my former National students, my father, both my grandfathers, my nephew, and my older brother.
And if you are a writer struggling with hard times, read Kelli’s post on the importance of supportive writer friends. The only bad thing about friends is that you can’t see them when you’re sick, lest you get them sick, and I’m usually sick most of the winter! I need a robot self!
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.
