Introducing Gilt Gilda

Been working with some folks on a fun, glossy magazine-type project on Pinterest called Gilt Gilda.

Gilt Gilda is an unruly hoard of cultural capital anxious to be squandered on something truly splendid. Pins by Reb Livingston, Rauan Klassnik, Rebecca Hazelton + guest curators: Jeannine Hall Gailey, Jennifer Barnes and many more to come.

So if you're on Pinterest, please follow us. And if you're not, maybe considering creating an account and following us.

Some of our boards:

Resurrection Request: Who and what we'd like to raise from the dead

Wrapper Gazing: What's on the outside

If I was Nic Cage's Mistress: Oh the things we'd do

A Taste of Rauan's Rabbits & Other Wildlife: From Rauan Klassnik's personal preserve

Reb's Cabinet of Curiosities: Pins from Reb Livingston's fabled vault of sorcery & whimsy

Rebecca's Garden of Questionable Delights: Rebecca Hazelton is bringing out the hoes

Jeannine Hall Gailey: Guest Board

Jennifer Barnes: Guest Board


And more to come, of course, there's always much much more.

And the Big Poetry Giveaway Winner is . . .

Rena Rossner

Congratulations Rena. Please email me your postal address (reb (at) rebaroni (dot) com).



Thank you to everyone who participated. Hope all your poetry dreams came true during National Poetry Month.

I had a wonderful NaPoWriMo -- thanks for asking!

NaPoWriMo

I'm posting my NaPoWriMo poems everyday on my tumblr here.

If you haven't already, enter my big poetry giveaway here.

That is all.

For now.

Big Poetry Giveaway

I have some extra awesomesauce poetry books, so I'll be participating in the Big Poetry Giveaway.


I'll be giving away the demented, The Moon's Jaw by Rauan Klassnik (Black Ocean) and a copy of my most recent collection, God Damsel (No Tell Books).




How to Enter:

Leave a comment on this blog post with your name and email between now and April 30th, 2013 at midnight (PST).

I will pick an entry at random the week of May 1. The winner will receive a copy of both books.

Anyone, except NaPoMo Scrooge Rauan Klassnik, may enter.

speaking of oracles

Astrologer Jessica Adams put together a list of the best free oracles and included the Bibliomancy Oracle.

At the end, she tests each oracle by asking what was Princess Diana's life about. As usual, the Bibliomancy Oracle responded like a psychic champ:

shopping for hats that convey a spirit

of adventure? You are a pizza party laughing

at toppings. You fill up this map with tiny

blips of awe.

from ‘I WAS NOT EVEN BORN WHEN YOU WERE LOUD AND CLEAR’ by Nick Sturn and Wendy Xu

tumblrs

Since last year I’ve been using my Psychic Memoir tumblr as scratch paper for ideas/drafts for my novel-in-progress, Bombyonder. From here on out, I’ll be shifting Psychic Memoir to a more general/personal blog. During April, I’ll be posting poems for NaPoWriMo. After that, we’ll see.

I started a tumblr specific to Bombyonder here. There I’m posting a selection of reconstructed memory and historical fragments that appear in and/or influence the novel. In in some ways it’s a never ending project.

Also, the Bibliomancy Oracle is on tumblr. As of this writing, there are over 1400 prophecies. I add new ones each week. If you’re interested in following the new prophecies as I add them, you can follow that too. Or you can just go straight to the oracle and ask away.

I don't post too frequently on this blog anymore, but if you wish, you can keep up with my various online incarnations at the above tumblrs and on Twitter, Pinterest and Goodreads.

When I went on "sabbatical" last year, I decided not be on the radar as much as before. Not disappearing, just blending into the wall. The new perspective has been helpful in allowing me to better refocus my own work and personal interests. I haven't had an AWP nightmare in a very long time.


p.s. If you haven't migrated your Google Reader subscriptions yet, I've been using and recommend Feedly. After a day of getting used to it, I find that I prefer it to Reader.

next big thing

Trevor Calvert tagged me for The Next Big Thing. Here's my self-interview:

What is the working title of the book?

Bombyonder


Where did the idea come from for the book?

The concept is that it's a "psychic memoir" meaning that it reads as a personal record of a mental/supernatural phenomena. Since it's a "memoir" the memories recovered are treated as truth, there's no question as to whether or not something "really" happened. The protagonist doesn't wake up and go "oh, it was just a dream" and it's not a hallucination. The book works under the belief that the mental/supernatural spaces we move in and out of are indeed quite "real." The veracity of the events is not what's in question, but the perspectives/motivations of the characters and what the protagonist extracts and concludes from these recovered truths. These psychic events expand, overlap and evolve as their own spaces. It's these events and experiences that are accounted for by the protagonist.

The influences for this idea come from everywhere: bibliomancy, Tarot, books, films, memories and fragments, physical experiences, dreams, fantasies, the news, religious and mythological texts and on and on.


What genre does your book fall under?

Fiction. I read somewhere that people like to read novels, so I thought I'd give that a try since I'd like for people to read it. Also, even though it IS a memoir, I don't want to be in the position where I have to PROVE something REALLY HAPPENED.


What actors would you choose to play the part of your characters in a movie rendition?

Lena Headey, Cate Blanchett or (in 15 years from now) Jennifer Lawrence for the protagonist. Amy Sedaris as Lily, the straight-texting friend who lives in a box inside a box. For Rauan, the unconceived brother, maybe Patton Oswalt.


What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?

Lady swallows a bomb in pill form (invented by her father), barfs up a dead bird and embarks on an excavation layered with murder, sexual politics, patriarchy, matricide and ancestral torment along with a parrot-faced cat girl, a boy on a donkey, a terrifyingly handsome lover, an unconceived brother, a straight-texting friend who lives in a box inside a box and Medusa.

How long did it take you to write the first draft of the manuscript?

I'm still writing it, so 14 months and counting.



Who or what inspired you to write this book?

My unflinching desire to set the record STRAIGHT and then blow it to SMITHEREENS to see what's inside.



Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?

I haven't thought too much on that yet. Right now I'm focusing on finishing the manuscript. I'm open to both possibilities, but there's probably a slightly higher chance that I'll publish it myself because I tend to want to be the one who makes the decisions. Sometimes I have trust issues.



I'm not sure who hasn't been tagged yet, but I don't think I've seen a selfie by: Rauan Klassnik or Hugh Behm-Steinberg. Anyone else want to be tagged who hasn't been?