Saturday evening's reading with Dory Lynch & Shana Ritter went really well. We had a great audience, and despite technical issues (we gave up on the PA and just read unamplified -- Poetry Unplugged!) I enjoyed it about as much as I can remember enjoying any reading. I had great fun reading both older, familiar material & the brand-new stuff I'm so excited about right now.
The podcast of my most recent radio reading is now available, here. (I'll make sure the link is over in the right-hand column of my blog, too.) There are two version of it; I haven't listened all the way through, but I'm pretty sure it is just that one has the public-radio pledge-week "please give us money" at the beginning and the other one doesn't.
Breach is now available via amazon.com, here. However, unless you feel an obligation to support amazon.com, or have a gift certificate to burn, you can certainly buy it directly from Finishing Line Press and support small-press publishing. Better still, if you're willing to mail out a check instead of using a credit card online, you can buy it directly from me (and I'll happily sign it if you'd like); I'll sell you one for $12 plus $1.50 postage (& trade/barter is definitely an option, so make me an offer). Email me, ahaines at gmail dot com, if you're interested.
Phew. Shameless self-promotion is kind of uncomfortable.
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I get to see John Prine on Saturday night! Should be excellent.
Showing posts with label Breach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Breach. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
cloud
I made a word cloud out of Breach over at http://wordle.net/. How cool is this? Note to self: cut way the heck back on similes next time around... good grief. Also, I am such a NON-morning person (seriously, you don't want to be around me until I've had some coffee) that I'm very surprised "morning" came out so much bigger than "night." :)
How it works is that the words that appear more frequently are bigger. If you go over to the Wordle site you can upload your own text -- and yes, it'll take an entire manuscript in there -- and create your own word cloud. You can change the fonts, colors, etc. and then do a screen capture to save it. Or if you have Windows Vista, there's a built-in "snipping tool" that works pretty well for stuff like this.
[Edited to add: Wordle also has a gallery of clouds people have created and chosen to save publicly. This one for Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run album is pretty cool!]
(Click on it to see it larger.)
How it works is that the words that appear more frequently are bigger. If you go over to the Wordle site you can upload your own text -- and yes, it'll take an entire manuscript in there -- and create your own word cloud. You can change the fonts, colors, etc. and then do a screen capture to save it. Or if you have Windows Vista, there's a built-in "snipping tool" that works pretty well for stuff like this.
[Edited to add: Wordle also has a gallery of clouds people have created and chosen to save publicly. This one for Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run album is pretty cool!]
(Click on it to see it larger.)
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Sightings in the wild
I've been getting reports from around the country of people receiving their copies of Breach. Woo hoo! You know what that means ... if people are receiving it, people actually ordered it -- most of whom are not my mother. Wacky! Getting little "hey, my copy arrived" notes from people feels kind of like getting letters home from the kid you sent off to school.
Because a couple of people have asked: if you ordered a copy and would like to have it signed, drop me a note and I'll give you my address -- send it to me and I'll sign it and send it right back. Or meet me at AWP in February. :)
Bear gives Breach a cat scan:
Because a couple of people have asked: if you ordered a copy and would like to have it signed, drop me a note and I'll give you my address -- send it to me and I'll sign it and send it right back. Or meet me at AWP in February. :)
Bear gives Breach a cat scan:
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Chapbook update and a something
Chapbook update: Finishing Line Press is running a bit behind. For those of you who ordered a copy of Breach, you can now expect it to ship around September 12. Sorry about that!
The good news is that there were enough pre-orders to justify a larger press run. So I'll get 50 author copies, and the press run will be 500. Whee! I'll be able to get at least a couple of local bookstores to stock it, and I'll have copies to sell at readings. Oh, and I know of at least two libraries that have ordered it. That part makes me extra happy. I feel like once your words are safely on the shelf in a good library, in a way, you're going to live forever.
I know, I'm a nerd. Deal with it. :)
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Here's a drafty something for you. I'll leave it up for a day or so. This is from the series I mentioned in my previous post.
[--gone. I think it ran away to join the circus.]
The good news is that there were enough pre-orders to justify a larger press run. So I'll get 50 author copies, and the press run will be 500. Whee! I'll be able to get at least a couple of local bookstores to stock it, and I'll have copies to sell at readings. Oh, and I know of at least two libraries that have ordered it. That part makes me extra happy. I feel like once your words are safely on the shelf in a good library, in a way, you're going to live forever.
I know, I'm a nerd. Deal with it. :)
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Here's a drafty something for you. I'll leave it up for a day or so. This is from the series I mentioned in my previous post.
[--gone. I think it ran away to join the circus.]
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Chapbook Reminder
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming here at the Land Mammal blog for a bit of shameless self-promotion.
If you saw my earlier post about my chapbook Breach and thought to yourself "hmm, I should order one of those!" and then you procrastinated (join the club!), I'm here to remind you that you have only a couple more weeks to pre-order and get free shipping. (Also, if I can rustle up a few more pre-sales, the press run will be larger and I'll get extra author copies.) The deadline for free shipping is July 25.
You can read all about Breach on the web page I've made for it, which also has a few sample poems. There's a link on that page for ordering, or you can go directly to the Finishing Line Press site and order it there.
Many thanks to those who have already ordered! Your support truly means a lot to me.
This has been an Emergency Chapbook Broadcast. Had this been a real emergency, you would have been told where to go to find some chocolate. (Because chocolate makes any emergency better, of course!)
If you saw my earlier post about my chapbook Breach and thought to yourself "hmm, I should order one of those!" and then you procrastinated (join the club!), I'm here to remind you that you have only a couple more weeks to pre-order and get free shipping. (Also, if I can rustle up a few more pre-sales, the press run will be larger and I'll get extra author copies.) The deadline for free shipping is July 25.
You can read all about Breach on the web page I've made for it, which also has a few sample poems. There's a link on that page for ordering, or you can go directly to the Finishing Line Press site and order it there.
Many thanks to those who have already ordered! Your support truly means a lot to me.
This has been an Emergency Chapbook Broadcast. Had this been a real emergency, you would have been told where to go to find some chocolate. (Because chocolate makes any emergency better, of course!)
Monday, June 09, 2008
Chapbook Announcement
Yes, I'm back from my retreat, with a workable (I think... I hope...) full-length book manuscript in hand. The retreat was just what I needed in so many ways, and I'll write more about it later.
And while the horrendous flooding you may have seen on the news is not far from here (the worst of it is about 30 miles north of me), I am high and dry.
But! It is announcement time! You can now pre-order my first chapbook, Breach, from Finishing Line Press. Just go to their New Releases page and scroll down a bit (they're in alpha order by last name). It is 12 bucks, and if you order it before July 25 you get free shipping. Your very own personal copy will be reserved for you and will ship on or about August 22. They take credit cards, PayPal, etc.; if you prefer not to order online, I can give you their mailing address so you can use a good old-fashioned check.
As those of you who've published with Finishing Line Press know, the number of pre-orders determines the size of the press run as well as how many author copies I receive, so it would make me very happy if a lot of people pre-ordered this beastie!
I've set up a web page for the chapbook, where you can read the blush-inducing blurbs (by fabulous poets Diane Lockward and Christine Hamm), as well as several sample poems and a little bio about me. No, it's not a fancy page, but we're all about simplicity here at the Land Mammal blog.
Finally -- and I only say this because a couple people have asked! -- if you would like to have your copy autographed and don't see me on a regular basis, go ahead and order it directly from the press. Then drop me an email (ahaines at gmail dot com) and I will give you my address; you can send me the chapbook when you get it, and I will sign it with a special purple pen and send it back to you. I'll be so flattered that you asked, that I'll even cover the postage to send it back. :) I also have every intention of being at AWP this coming February, and will happily sign chapbooks there (as well as cocktail napkins, oversized tennis balls, body parts, or pretty much anything else you put in front of me).
So, that's the announcement. I am very grateful to those of you who've already said that you will be ordering it! I hope you enjoy it. I know I'm terribly biased, but I think you will. :)
And while the horrendous flooding you may have seen on the news is not far from here (the worst of it is about 30 miles north of me), I am high and dry.
But! It is announcement time! You can now pre-order my first chapbook, Breach, from Finishing Line Press. Just go to their New Releases page and scroll down a bit (they're in alpha order by last name). It is 12 bucks, and if you order it before July 25 you get free shipping. Your very own personal copy will be reserved for you and will ship on or about August 22. They take credit cards, PayPal, etc.; if you prefer not to order online, I can give you their mailing address so you can use a good old-fashioned check.
As those of you who've published with Finishing Line Press know, the number of pre-orders determines the size of the press run as well as how many author copies I receive, so it would make me very happy if a lot of people pre-ordered this beastie!
I've set up a web page for the chapbook, where you can read the blush-inducing blurbs (by fabulous poets Diane Lockward and Christine Hamm), as well as several sample poems and a little bio about me. No, it's not a fancy page, but we're all about simplicity here at the Land Mammal blog.
Finally -- and I only say this because a couple people have asked! -- if you would like to have your copy autographed and don't see me on a regular basis, go ahead and order it directly from the press. Then drop me an email (ahaines at gmail dot com) and I will give you my address; you can send me the chapbook when you get it, and I will sign it with a special purple pen and send it back to you. I'll be so flattered that you asked, that I'll even cover the postage to send it back. :) I also have every intention of being at AWP this coming February, and will happily sign chapbooks there (as well as cocktail napkins, oversized tennis balls, body parts, or pretty much anything else you put in front of me).
So, that's the announcement. I am very grateful to those of you who've already said that you will be ordering it! I hope you enjoy it. I know I'm terribly biased, but I think you will. :)
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