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Links, etc...Book tours, submitting practices, six questions

Ever wonder what it's like to go on an unfunded 17-day poetry book tour to promote your new book? Me too! Keith Monstesano gives us a blow-by-blow here.

Do you submit your poetry like a girl? Well, stop it. See Kelli's post here.

Want to ask Kitsune Books' editor Anne Petty six questions?

I've got another tendon injury. This one I can walk with, though I can't do stairs or curbs, so it's not as bad as the previous one. Still, I am wondering which tendon spirits I have been angering lately?

I als...

Kitsune Books special, Fiction Reviews

Go check out the special going on at Kitsune Books (the future publisher of my second book, She Returns to the Floating World) - it's buy one get one free for the month of August! There's poetry, essays, fiction...good fun! I've already got a couple of books on the way.

I've been in a lots-of-reading-but-no-writing kick after finishing a final re-write of "She Returns..." and another revision of my newest MS. Most of the reading has been fiction, and two books I enjoyed particularly were Perfe...

Interview from the book tour, Napa Valley Writers Conference, and More News!

Check out Mary Agner's Thursday feature with me in the Back to the Future Book Blog Tour here. I talk about my new book, there will be sample poems, Mary asks wonderful interview questions...fun, right?

Went to the Napa Valley Writers Conference for a night and attended a reading at the Mondavi winery with Major Jackson and Ron Carlson. It was wonderful to see Major read his work, which I've admired for a long time, and the winery setting was just perfectly beautiful for a poetry reading. Got ...

Poetry Blog Book Tour - Interview with Christine Klocek-Lim

I'm part of a poetry blog book tour called "Back to the Future" that started yesterday with an interview of Wendy Babiak at Joanne Merriam's blog.
Today I'm interviewing Christine Klocek-Lim. Christine received the 2009 Ellen La Forge Memorial Prize in poetry. She has two chapbooks: "How to Photograph the Heart" (The Lives You Touch Publications) and "The Book of Small Treasures" (Seven Kitchens Press). Her poems have appeared in Nimrod, Diode, Poets and Artists (O&S), Riffing on Strings...

New Poet's Market, Book Trailers, Slush Piles and Paris Review

Received my Poet's Market 2011 in the mail today, opened it up...and discovered my article on chapbooks had been published in this version! (It also appeared in last year's.) Surrrrrprise! G out and get a copy. Learn more about why you should do a chapbook. And also a bunch of info on poetry markets.

I'm thinking about book trailers lately as I'm trying to think ahead about the new book. Diane Lockward had a good post today on Book Trailers and Book Promotion. Kelli did a post a while ago on ...

Discouragement, Nice Rejections, and Persistence

Sometimes reading an old blog post accidentally can be really enlightening. I posted about "nice rejections and the MFA blues" a few years ago, back in 2007.

http://myblog.webbish6.com/2007/02/does-anyone-write-nicer-rejection-slips.html

What's especially interesting is that the comments were so supportive, mostly from people I'd never met (though I would meet some along the course of life as a writer.) David Barber has since continued to write me very nice rejection slips over the years. I alm...

Cover Art - Rene Lynch's Secret Life of the Forest "A Different Sleep"

News! The official cover art for "She Returns to the Floating World," my new book forthcoming from Kitsune Books in late 2011, has been chosen. It is from Rene Lynch's series, "Secret Life of the Forest," and this painting is titled "A Different Sleep." Thanks so much to Rene Lynch, one of my very favorite super-talented artists, for her gracious permission to use this amazing image. I encourage you all to visit her web site and see more of her work. I actually wrote a poem after seeing...

Theme, Tone, Mood: Two Books and gluten-free banana bread

In my first couple weeks of the manuscript class I've been running, we've talked about the theme, tone, and mood of the manuscripts we're working on. It made me think about the process of writing "Becoming the Villainess," which began when I was in my early twenties, and the process of writing "She Returns to the Floating World," which I started when I was in my early thirties, and how I changed during those years. The tone and mood of the two books changed as well. The first book is funnier ...

Anniversaries, Cover Art, and Twitter

Today I'm celebrating my 16th wedding anniversary. That just seems crazy - where did the time go? In Napa, the weather is really romantic this time of year - always warm with the smell of jasmine and green things, the hills with vines on them, white egrets flying in the sky and deer and jackrabbits on the trails.
Also, since I became allergic to wheat after 36 years Glenn has been diligently learning new gluten-free recipes left and right. I am thankful he is trained in chemistry and just like...

Books Reviews, 5 AM, Twitter, Summertime

I have a new book review up at The Rumpus, where I compare Karyna McGlynn's I Have to Go Back to 1994 And Kill a Girl to Twin Peaks, Momento, and Sixth Sense. It's one of my favorite books of 2010 so far!

It is finally feeling like summer here. Wednesday we drove an hour and a half to walk on the beach and the wind was so hard and cold it blew sand into my teeth and hair but the water was so blue, the sky was cloudless. We lost twenty degrees driving out to San Francisco, what seemed like dram...