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The Next Best Book Club Blog Feature – Growing Up in The Atomic City

Thanks very much to The Next Best Book Club Blog, who featured my essay on Growing Up in the Atomic City today on their blog, with the Indie feature “Why I Wrote The Robot Scientist’s Daughter” (available for pre-order now from Mayapple Press, release date March 2015!) Here’s what TNBBC folks had to say: “Here at […]

Reading Tomorrow and Holiday (fridge-induced) Breakdowns with Suggestions for Holiday SAD

So, I’m reading for the first time ever tomorrow at the Antioch Seattle reading series, and I’m excited, as I haven’t done a college reading for a little while, and it’s being hosted by friend and superhero poet Evan J. Peterson. So it should be fun! 7 PM Tuesday night at Antioch Seattle Cafe. My […]

Light in the Darkness and Beware of Literary Fits

So, the news lately has been discouraging, the world seems in turmoil, the coming holidays seem less cheerful, and the writing world seems crazy as usual. (Re: Ayelet Waldman – but I’ll get to that in a bit.) And the holidays can be a depressing season in the best of times (see: Charlie Brown Christmas […]

Black Friday Poetry Shopping List!

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We had a great time with our little celebration with local family and a ton of delicious food, and a lot to be thankful for. So onto the next holiday… Black Friday Poetry Shopping List! Special: All three of my books for $32 including shipping! That’s Becoming the […]

Things I am Thankful for this Thanksgiving: Family, Poet Bloggers, Small Presses and Other Blessings

So, this may be cheesy, but I’d like to highlight some things I am thankful for this pre-Thanksgiving week. Some of them include the poetry bloggers that brighten my days with their contributions! So, my little brother and his wife will be celebrating Thanksgiving with us this year. This is the first time we’ve had […]

Dermatographia, Book Launch Planning, and what to do at six months out

First of all, thank you to Ariana Page Russell for interviewing me over at her blog on dermatographia and poetry! She found a poem I wrote on the subject and decided to write, and it was really fun talking to her! So, I’ve had my hands full trying to do all the things you’re supposed […]

Reviews Reviews Reviews – Unexplained Fevers and Jericho Brown’s The New Testament

Some new review news! Bryan Thoa Worra reviews Unexplained Fevers here: http://thaoworra.blogspot.com/2014/11... And my own review of Jericho Brown’s The New Testament is up at The Rumpus! Also of note – if you want a PDF press kit for my upcoming book, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, it’s now available on my book page under pricing […]

Interview with Social Media Expert/PR Consultant Killian Czuba on How to Use Social Media to Promote Your Book

Killian Czuba is a fiction writer, comics enthusiast, podcaster, and social media/PR gun-for-hire. She has a grad degree, some published works, an arts editor gig with Cactus Heart Press, and would immediately take up any scientist who offered her gills. (She is also, as I have personally known her, full of a kind of infectious […]

Cloudless Skies, Matthea Harvey, Chihuly Gardens and Glass, and a trip to the Space Needle

Yesterday was one of those rare cloudless sunny days in Seattle, a teeny bit cold but gorgeous. Sunny days in winter always make me a bit giddy. Glenn and I sneaked out at midday for a walk in the park, and spotted our first bald eagle in a long time circling overhead:       […]

Gone Girl, The Cool Girl Speech, Margaret Atwood, Girls in Politics, and Becoming the Villainess

So, I finally read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.  I know, you’re saying, “You’re way behind on your reading, Jeannine!” Yes, I am! Anyway, so I’ve been thinking about Flynn’s portrayal of Amy, is it complex, nuanced, is it misogynistic or feminist? I’m thinking about the “Cool Girl” speech, in which the main female character […]