Happy Fourth Weekend, heat-based insomnia, and a few appearances by The Robot Scientist’s Daughter
- At July 03, 2015
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Happy 4th of July Weekend, everyone! Stay safe! I know here in Seattle, it has been in the searing nineties and dry as a bone, so hopefully people leave the fireworks to the professionals and prevent unnecessary fires!
After a lack of sleep last night – heat-based insomnia, is that a thing? full moon fever? – I didn’t get to sleep til 7 AM, and I was woken up by my alarm at 8:05. Yay! Things have been a little stressful with family health stuff, the house selling/buying stress, and work, so it may have to do with that. I guess I am in need of a summer break!
In good news though, I came home yesterday to some mail appearances of The Robot Scientist’s Daughter – get your own Americana-history-themed robot poems here now! – one in the Pacific University Magazine, and the other in the form of an ad in Poets & Writers.
Here’s Pacific’s little write-up – thanks, Alma mater!
And here’s the Mayapple Press ad in this month’s Poets & Writers:
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.
Yvonne Highins Leach
That’s a score to get in Poets & Writers like that.
Sorry about all the stress….lots of deep breaths!
Rebecca Loudon
Yes to heat-based insomnia. Went to bed last night at 1 woke up at 3. The night before was even worse. Waiting for a day of cool a day of rain. love, r
Suzette Harris
Congratulations on successful launch of your latest book. Having read Robots Scientists Daughter, and gone back to read most of the poems more than once, I understand why the poetry succeeds. The business and time-consuming launch process seems more stressful than the writing. The affects of growing up in Oak Ridge, it’s own special blend of toxic release and exposure is becoming more and more known. Thank you for your contribution.
Jeannine Hall Gailey
Thanks Yvonne! Will do!
Rebecca, waiting for rain…and waiting…
Suzette – thank you! Yes, the promotion is definitely more stressful.