This year at AWP, instead of overwhelming myself with panels, I went to only one each day (because, frankly, I didn’t see a lot that appealed to me). The rest of the time I was in the bookfair, mostly at the Press 53/Prime Number Magazine Booth. That was fun, in part because so many people stopped by to say hello. I especially loved it when people I didn’t know came up to me to thank me for my Literary Magazine Rankings. It’s nice to be appreciated.
At the Press 53/Prime Number booth, I got to hang out with many other Press 53 Authors and help the publisher sell their books (along with mine). Also, most of these authors joined us for the Press 53 reading at Barnes & Noble on Friday night. I have most of these books now, and I look forward to reading the ones I haven’t yet read:
Paradise Drive by Rebecca Foust
Fissures by Grant Faulkner
Twelve Women in a Country Called America by Kelly Cherry
Frozen Latitudes by Therése Halscheid
What Happened Here by Bonnie ZoBell
A Fingerprint Repeated by Jeffrey Condran
From the Crooked Timber by Okla Elliott
One Last Good Time by Michael Kardos
Best Road Yet by Ryan Stone
Paper, Cotton, Leather by Jenny Sadre-Orafai
Scissored Moon by Stacy R. Nigliazzo
Tea in Heliopolis by Hedy Habra
Eyes Like Broken Windows by Seth Michelson
Cold Spring Rising by John Thomas York
Unaccountable Weather by Kathryn Kirkpatrick
My Life as Laura by Kelly Kathleen Ferguson
Home of the Brave edited by Jeffery Hess
Blood Sisters of the Republic by Wendy Willis
and my three books: In an Uncharted Country, What the Zhang Boys Know, and Everywhere Stories
Really enjoy that you share the books you buy and intend to read. I look them up. Not all appeal but some do. Much thanks.