The first Friday of every month, downtown Kalamazoo has an Art Hop at which folks can view art and eat snacks and join in the fun of being downtown. The most popular Art Hop of the year is the December event, because folks like to buy Christmas gifts, and in December, the Kalamazoo Public Library invites writers to hang out at tables and try to sell signed copies of their books. In truth, few books move, and I was thinking I'd skip it, until I remembered that I should start marketing American Salvage. Though it is six months from publication, I should be alerting folks, just in case it might make a difference. So I told Marti Fritz at the library that so long as I get to sit by Andy Mozina and Elizabeth Kerlikowske, I would be there, December 5, 6 pm to 9 pm. So now I just have to figure out how to get busy Christmas shoppers excited about a book that won't exist for another six months. Any thoughts? Apparently, Elizabeth K. has organized up a kind of poetry reading also, that will be going on the Children's Room.
For more info about the library Art Hop event, go to this link: http://www.kpl.gov/holiday-hop.aspx
If you want more information about the December Art Hop in general, or a complete schedule of fun and free snacks, you can get it through this link: http://www.kazooart.org/calendar/index.asp?id=20166
As self-promotion, I should mention that Kenyon Review (a few months back) conducted an interview with me, in which they talked about American Salvage and you can read that interview here. http://www.kenyonreview.org/interviews/campbell.php
Oh, and speaking of submitting work to magazines, I got this email the today, from Ploughshares, with the subject line "Your submission to Ploughshares." The email contained this message:
2008-12-01 17:43:39 (GMT -5:00)
This is especially interesting since I have nothing submitted to Ploughshares at this time.
This photo above is my niece Kellee on Halloween dressed as a ZOMBIE GARDENER.
2 comments:
Jesus! What a surprising December greeting photo! Are you putting it on your Christmas card?
Glad you explained. I thought it was a battered woman. Zombie gardener is a comforting notion by comparison...
(Looks like a character from that "killed the cat" poem.)
Actually, you must have pubbed the book hard, because I've heard of it. Next time I see it, I'll pick it up. Love the art hops BTW.I always preview them on paragonlifeblog.com.
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