New Poetry Manuscript Service and Mythic Delirium

First, thanks very much to Mythic Delirium for featuring one of my poems in their new issue. They’re one of my fave speculative publications!

Second, you know, I haven’t been taking on new manuscript editing projects for a little while now, and that is because I was developing this idea with Kelly Davio of a tag-team approach to poetry manuscript editing. So now I am proud to announce the grand opening of Gailey and Davio Writers’ Services. One of the big limitations of a single-person edit is that, well, obviously, you are only getting one person’s feedback and point of view, so we thought it would be great to combine our talents and give people the opportunity to get two sets of editors’ eyes on your manuscripts! Not only was Kelly Davio the former managing editor of The LA Review and the current editor of Tahoma Review, she has laser-sharp focus on things like formatting and grammar errors from her many years of teaching. So wish us luck with our new endeavor, and if you’ve got a poetry manuscript ready to make the rounds, contact us!

This week I started running a 101 fever (which could be run-of-the-mill flu or related to the tooth problems) so they’ve got me in tomorrow morning at the “specialty” downtown dentists (who are really hard to get into and a 45-minute drive each way) and hope they can move forward with a plan to fix my crazy tooth! I’m not used to having to take so much downtime for dental work, but I was cheered by watching the episode of 30 Rock where Liz Lemon gets a root canal on Valentine’s Day, and on the pain medication, imagines the dental assistants are her ex-boyfriends and a palm tree is Bon Jovi. Think good thoughts for me! Our briefly sunny skies are giving way to colder drizzle once again, which is, of course, normal for January in Seattle. But it was nice to have a little break.