My chapbook has found a home! And now...

I'm embarking on a new path-- or at least, a little side street. My chapbook has been accepted for publication! The nuts and bolts of publication are all a new process for me, and I'm feeling both grateful and overwhelmed. 

I sent the info they needed to generate the contract. (Can you believe it? Contract?!!)

Next, I sent notes to a few poet-friends to ask for a blurb for the book. (Can you believe it? Book!)

There's a lot of other little tasks, too: author photos (plural), short and long bios, possible cover art. 

Then, there will be promoting pre-sales, lining up book signings/readings, etc. (O golly.)

I have the feeling that my quiet little life of merely wanting to see my name on an actual book is about to be disrupted a bit. I'm a "house mouse" (as G informed me the other day), but I was not always so-- but I am, and it's going to take a lot of inner fortitude to get this little book into the world. 

But first, coffee. And I have to get ready to sit and be the monitor in the tenth grade testing room.

Have a good one,

C