Jacqueline West's Blog, page 12
September 10, 2010
Upcoming Events
Tomorrow is the Celebration of Minnesota Children's Authors and Illustrators at Red Wing's beautiful Anderson Center. It's a free event featuring eighteen Minnesotan writers and artists, as well as entertainers, puppeteers, and costumed characters. The Celebration runs from 12:30 - 5:00. I'll be signing from 1:00 - 3:00 and reading at 3:30. For more information, see www.andersoncenter.org/events.htm or www.redballoonbookshop.com/RedWing (includes a detailed schedule).
On Tuesday, October 5...
On Tuesday, October 5...
August 24, 2010
It's Official
It's been announced in Publisher's Weekly, so at last I can type it here: Volumes three, four, and five of The Books of Elsewhere have been acquired by my editor at Dial. Huzzah!! (as that editor would say). Now when people ask how long the series is going to be, I don't have to shrug and gesture and try to make a coy face. FIVE BOOKS. It's good to feel employed.
Also, a kid reporter at TIME for Kids (the same reporter who wrote TIME for Kids's great review) recently interviewed me. Y...
Also, a kid reporter at TIME for Kids (the same reporter who wrote TIME for Kids's great review) recently interviewed me. Y...
August 17, 2010
Cucumonster
This beast (pictured here eating an ordinary-sized pickle) was discovered this weekend beneath our garden's thick canopy of tomato leaves and cucumber vines, having sneakily grown to mammoth proportions.
I'm almost afraid to poke around in the thickest parts of the garden now. Even from outside the fence, I can see an Italian heirloom tomato that's reached the size of a small cantaloupe. Who knows what else is lurking in the leafy depths?
In non-vegetable news, The Books of Elsewhere...
I'm almost afraid to poke around in the thickest parts of the garden now. Even from outside the fence, I can see an Italian heirloom tomato that's reached the size of a small cantaloupe. Who knows what else is lurking in the leafy depths?
In non-vegetable news, The Books of Elsewhere...
August 10, 2010
One Hundred Degrees
That's the current temperature here in Red Wing, MN, according to the heat index. The thermometer says it's 90, which I think is a lie. It would be a bold-faced lie, if thermometers had faces. The heat is making me stupid.
Found this review of The Shadows in Books Together, a blog focusing on art and museums in children's books. It doesn't get much more apropos. www.bookstogetherblog.com/blog/2010/7/26/the-shadows.html
Yay! Now it's ice water time.
Found this review of The Shadows in Books Together, a blog focusing on art and museums in children's books. It doesn't get much more apropos. www.bookstogetherblog.com/blog/2010/7/26/the-shadows.html
Yay! Now it's ice water time.
August 2, 2010
And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming
I will not be spending any more of the summer looking like this:
(That's me with the orange bow, along with Elyce, Marcie, and our fabulous music director, Jan).
My hair is happy to be done.
Whenever a show ends - in this case, "The Wedding Singer" - you realize how entirely your life and your schedule and most of the space in your brain has been entangled in it, and then there's a come-down period when the songs keep running through your brain, and you occasionally glance at a clock and p...
July 22, 2010
Sybil's Garage #7
Others have said it already, but I will happily and belatedly chime in: Sybil's Garage #7 is now available for your reading pleasure! www.sensesfive.com/publications/sybils-garage-no-7/ My poem, "One October Night in Baltimore," (which had its beginnings somewhere in northern Montana in a berth on the Empire Builder train) is in abash-makingly amazing company. Sonya Taaffe, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Amal El-Mohtar, and Adrienne J. Odasso are among those with new work in this issue...and that...
July 11, 2010
July 8, 2010
Rose & Thorn Journal reviews Cherma
The wonderful, eclectic, and recently redesigned Rose & Thorn Journal (formerly the Rose & Thorn Literary Ezine) has just posted a review of my chapbook, Cherma: blog.roseandthornjournal.com/2010/07/03/book-review--cherma-by-jacqueline-west.aspx. It's perceptive and beautifully written -- the type of in-depth review poets dream about.
June 18, 2010
Book Release Party, Part II: The Recap
It was a dark and stormy night in downtown Red Wing, but many, many brave and wonderful people showed up for The Shadows's release party at The Best of Times Bookstore.
I read... (My favorite thing about this photo is the two girls in the background, following along in their own copies of the book.)
...and I answered questions, and I signed books, and it was so much fun.
And, finally, here's my brother, pretending to pluck his very own copy from the fancy display stand.
In other Books of ...
I read... (My favorite thing about this photo is the two girls in the background, following along in their own copies of the book.)
...and I answered questions, and I signed books, and it was so much fun.
And, finally, here's my brother, pretending to pluck his very own copy from the fancy display stand.
In other Books of ...
June 17, 2010
Book Release Party!
Tonight's the night:
Book release party for The Books of Elsewhere, Volume One: The Shadows
Thursday, June 17th, 7 - 9 p.m. at Best of Times Bookstore, Red Wing, Minnesota. Reception, reading, Q&A, art contest for kids, book signing, and lots and lots of my relatives. Be there or be a regular quadrilateral with four equal sides and four equal angles, as Mr. Dunwoody would say. And Mrs. Dunwoody would think it was funny.
(Look what's in the window!)
More information at bestoftimes...
Book release party for The Books of Elsewhere, Volume One: The Shadows
Thursday, June 17th, 7 - 9 p.m. at Best of Times Bookstore, Red Wing, Minnesota. Reception, reading, Q&A, art contest for kids, book signing, and lots and lots of my relatives. Be there or be a regular quadrilateral with four equal sides and four equal angles, as Mr. Dunwoody would say. And Mrs. Dunwoody would think it was funny.
(Look what's in the window!)
More information at bestoftimes...
