Library Journal Review, VALA Gala reading this Saturday, and how to get reviews
- At January 09, 2014
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Very excited to announce that Unexplained Fevers was reviewed in The Library Journal along with superstars like Mary Szybist and Linda Bierds! Thanks, Library Journal! I’m honored to be part of your recommended poetry reading for 2014!
Other exciting news – I’m reading at Redmond’s artist volunteer reception this Saturday at VALA! Check it out. It’s always fun finding and talking to artists here on the East side, there will be wonderful art to look at, and I’m excited to be invited to be part of it!
And speaking of reviews, Joannie Stangeland talks here about how to get reviewers to review your book. I forgot, along with the quote, to tell her about this previous post I wrote a while ago on the same topic, here, from 2011: https://webbish6.com/how-to-get-your-book-reviewed-2/ Be sure to leave Joannie a comment if you have any more tips! Now, getting the reviews to be positive, well-written, and accurate? That’s a whole different thing! Ha! I’m working on a tricky review right now – tricky because though I’ve loved this particular author’s previous work, I’m for whatever reason just feeling grumpy about this book – I see all the places it needs editing, where the tone gets annoying, etc. Sometimes that happens, but I try to give it a fair and literate shake all the same.
Well, I had a fainting episode this week, and felt a little dizzy all week. The last time I fainted was the night of the Japanese tsunami. Glenn took me to the ER, they checked me up and down and everything seemed fine, heart still normal, etc. But that’ll be expensive out of pocket even with insurance, taking up the entire deductible. Boo. Not an auspicious beginning, 2014! I’m watching you! On the plus side, I’ve turned in my fellowship application (cross your fingers for me) and now can turn full attention to just my editing assignments, article, and aforementioned review. Phew!
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.
