My book manuscript, This Many Miles from Desire, has been accepted for publication by WordTech Editions, an imprint of WordTech Communications. Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, Wordtech has published books by Allison Joseph, Nick Carbo, Ravi Shankar, Barry Spacks, Maxine Scates, Liza Wieland, and many other fine poets. I received the e-mail from editor Kevin Walzer last week and signed the contract and dropped it in the mail yesterday.
This is my first full-length book (I had a chapbook in 1999) so you can imagine how excited I am! They have scheduled it for publication in June 2007. If you or anybody you know would like to get on a list to receive an e-mail or postcard when the book is out, let me know. In the meantime, I'll be thinking about cover art, writers to ask for blurbs, and a few new poems to include in the manuscript.
Thank you again so much, Kevin! I'm going to celebrate and bask in a little joy.
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congrats!
Congratulations! Let me know when it's out and we'll try to hook you up with a review at Boxcar Poetry Review right away :)
Woo hoo! Congratulations! That's fantabulous news! Stick me on your mailing list, for sure. I'll be lining up to buy a copy next summer. Bask, bask like you've never basked before! You deserve it.
Hey, thank you everyone! I'm in serious bask mode! I really appreciate your nice comments.
Congrats Lee, wonderful news, add me to the list too, please. Good luck.
Congratulations! Yay!
That's great Lee! Congratulations!
lee, this is such awesome news! happy to see you *finally* announcing it! congratulations again.
Wonderful news! Congratulations!
Congratulations, Lee!
oh...thanks, everybody! i'm still on cloud nine---or at least the top of cloud eight.
Congrats! Very cool news.
(And on April Fool's Day even...)
Congrats Lee! I am anon above, I don't how that happened.
Add my congrats (and mailing list request) to the long, well-deserved list. :)
Hi Lee,
BIGTIME Congratulations! This will be the first of many -- ENJOY!
Amy
michelle, i'll definitely send you an announcement. thanks for your support! and neil, thank you for offering to review at boxcar. the first issue looks great.
Congratulations, Lee. The poetry world will be richer with this.
Let me know how I can get my hands on it.
Soon-young, I totally will.
Folks, I really want to thank you all for taking a minute to send your congrats. I'm so excited---I have a lot of questions, nerves, moments of surprise and joy...but I'll be talking it slow and asking a lot of questions of a few of my writer-friends who've been here and done this. I am glad I didn't change the title---it had been This Many Miles from Desire since I began work on it over five years ago, but last year I started to second guess it, and I began to think about alternate titles (Uproot was one I'd considered). But it's all worked out so far.
One of these days I'll write a little about the title's origins. Until then, go UCLA!
Congrats, Lee! Add me to the mailing list for an announcment!
Getting here a little late, but want to add my congratulations.
Oops, put me on your list as well, please.
Congrats again.
Lee,
Congratulations! How awesome!
Congratulations!!!
hey, congratulations Lee, and add me to your announcements list!
Cool! I can't wait to read it!
hey everybody, ya'll are cool. many thanks!
hey Lee, I just happened to check in on your blog and what do i find, but you are about to publish a BOOK. huge huge cheers of joy to you~! keep IAT up to date on this special milestone. we love you. cynthia
Congrats! Definitely include me in your mailing list! Woo-hoo!
Fabulous news, good for you! You must be so excited.
dana, amy, thank you for your notes here. cynthia, i'll definitely keep you posted. lots of love back to you.
something just occurred to me ...i think i may have made some friends in the blogosphere. i imagine it's unnecessary (and rather cheesy of me) to say, but i want to say that it was really nice seeing how many people left a comment here. i get grateful like that. kamsahamnida.
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