Ready for Launch? Flare, Corona’s Official Pub Date Arrives, an Upcoming Open Books Reading with Martha Silano, Instagram Takeovers, Plus More Pics of Tulips and Parties

Ready for Launch? Flare, Corona’s Official Pub Date Finally Arrives (and BOA’s Instagram Takeover)

Yes, all the waiting is over – if you pre-ordered the book, or were waiting for the book to be available from BOA or Amazon or you wanted to review it on Amazon, the 9th is the day! That’s tomorrow!

In celebration, I’ll be taking over BOA Edition’s feed on Instagram May 9th, 10th, and 11th so keep your eyes out for that! I’ll talk about inspirations, making cocktails, playlists, and more. I’m a little bit nervous because I’m not the world’s most confident Instagram user, but hopefully I have respectable posts and stories. Isn’t it funny that now Instagram videos are part of promoting a book? That wasn’t true the last time one of my books came out. Ah, how things change!

And, really, if you have time, if you can go and put up a few words about the book on Amazon I would really appreciate it. Amazon reviews (and stars) still matter more than we would like to think!

Also, in case you are interested, I’m not just a BOA author, I’m also a customer! This is what I got from my Spring Book Lovers Subscription package, which includes my new book plus Jessica Q. Stark’s Buffalo Girl (which I can highly recommend!) and more. You can subscribe here: https://www.boaeditions.org/products/subscriptions Fluffy cat not included.

Open Books Reading with Martha Silano (and Macarons and Book-Signing Afterwards!)

My Official Seattle Book Launch Reading and Party is taking place on May 13 at Open Books in Pioneer Square at 6 PM.  I’m super excited!

Martha Silano is doing the introduction and reading and I’ll be bringing macarons from Lady Yum for the book signing afterwards in the Parlor. It’s supposed to be a warmish day but hopefully not too warm? I’d love to see some of my old friends’ faces so come on out, get your signed copy of Flare, Corona. Here’s a link from the store itself for more info: https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/pages/5-13-book-launch-with-jeannine-hall-gailey

And, if you can’t be there but you want to order a personalized copy of Flare, Corona from Open Books (support our local independent bookstores) click here.

It should be a great chance to see a lot of Seattle friends I haven’t seen since the beginning of the pandemic! So come out on Saturday. I’d love to see your face! I haven’t done a reading in Seattle for a very long time…

 

 

 

 

More Tulip and Party Pics

Since I had too much content and not enough space last week, here are some more pics from my 50th birthday at J. Bookwalter (pics thanks to Kelli Agodon) and from our trip to the Skagit Tulip Festival. We are supposed to have a heat wave at the end of the week that may push everything to bloom (and hopefully not burn) after a long cold, wet spring.

Even with a book launch, I have time to snap pictures of goldfinches and black-headed grosbeaks, which only appear during the summer, and I took time to photograph fallen cherry blossoms yesterday on a long walk looking for evidence of ducklings and goslings (no luck yet.) Wish me luck on the reading and book promotion this week – Flare, Corona was such a difficult book to write, and I hope people do find something in it that they can relate to. Wishing you all a happy spring (almost summer, apparently) week with time to notice the little things that make spring my favorite season.