APRIL 3 BOOK LAUNCH (ZOOMED) OF DOVELION

YOU ARE ALL MOST DEFINITELY INVITED to the Zoom-based Book Launch of my novel, DOVELION: A FAIRY TALE FOR OUR TIMES! I put details below but you can also go HERE for more information.

DOVELION is a multi-layered story with something for (nearly) everyone, addressing not just literature but history, myth, the visual arts, cloud as well as indigenous culture, and even adobo! And then there's novelist Reine "Bonnie" Arcache Melvin (recipient of two Philippine National Book Awards for Fiction) who had helped edit my manuscript and with whom I'll be sharing a conversation!

Apr 3, 2021 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84148604715?pwd=c1FTaUlwZU5tMHA4Y1NqUFdpbHFlUT09

Meeting ID: 841 4860 4715

Passcode: 288363

https://mailchi.mp/4fe2b35ac844/4jnhnma5yf-6164077

Please note your local times versus Pacific Time.

Additional Book information at its Book Page.

DOVELION RELEASES ITSELF TO THE WORLD!

Dear All:

I’m pleased to share news of my first novel, DOVELION: A Fairy Tale for Our Times (AC Books, New York). It took me only about 20 years to write it (hah), and is newly-available through Small Press Distribution: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781939901194/dovelion-a-fairy-tale-for-our-times.aspx

There’s more information about the book at my website: https://eileenrtabios.com/fiction/dovelion-a-fairy-tale-for-our-times/

Here also is an article about my journey from being a poet to a novelist (though I remain a poet): http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/eileen-r-tabios-from-poet-to-novelist

Non-U.S. distribution to occur through John Rule, starting with its Spring catalog: https://www.johnrule.co.uk

Finally, YOU ARE ALL MOST DEFINITELY INVITED to the Zoom-based Book Launch for DoveLion! Please go to this link for more information about the April 3, 10 a.m. Pacific time event:

Apr 3, 2021 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84148604715?pwd=c1FTaUlwZU5tMHA4Y1NqUFdpbHFlUT09

Meeting ID: 841 4860 4715

Passcode: 288363

https://mailchi.mp/4fe2b35ac844/4jnhnma5yf-6164077

Please note your local times versus Pacific Time. We will be joined by award-winning novelist Reina Arcache Melvin. Conversations also to include the audience.

I hope you are all well during these challenging times.

All best,

Eileen Tabios

A MINI REVIEW FOR MY MINI BOOK!

My miniature book, the 2-3 inch WHAT COUNTS unexpectedly get its first review and I’m delighted as it’s from miniature book expert/collector/publisher Todd Sommerfeld of Booksby Press. I appreciate it as O Henry’s story is a long-time favorite and what a treat to have written a short story likened to “The Gift of the Magi”!!

MARSH HAWK REVIEW, SPRING 2021

 I'm guest-editor for this just-released issue of Marsh Hawk Review. You're welcome to read the lovely poems of 42 poets encompassing a wide variety of styles:

Marsh Hawk Press is delighted to release the Spring 2021 issue of Marsh Hawk Review, edited by Eileen R. Tabios. You are welcome to go HERE. 

Gratitude to Contributors to Marsh Hawk Press, Spring 2021:

NINOTCHKA ROSCA

ANSELM BERRIGAN

SHEILA E. MURPHY

BARRY SCHWABSKY

LYNNE THOMPSON

MICHELLE MURPHY

SUSAN M. SCHULTZ

WILLIAM ALLEGREZZA

BILLY T. ANTONIO

JANE AUGUSTINE

CYNTHIA T. BUIZA

PATRICIA CARLIN

AILEEN CASSINETTO

LYNN CRAWFORD

JON CURLEY

HEATHER DAVIS

MELINDA LUISA DE JESÚS

CAROL DORF

THOMAS FINK

ROBERT GIBB

VINCE GOTERA

AYO GUTIERREZ

LUISA A. IGLORIA

BURT KIMMELMAN

JULIA ROSE LEWIS and NATHAN HYLAND WALKER

MARY MACKEY

SANDY McINTOSH

PANSY MAURER-ALVAREZ

STEPHEN PAUL MILLER

DANIEL MORRIS

GAIL NEWMAN

DENISE LOW

BASIL KING

JOSE PADUA

MICHAEL RERICK

TOM BECKETT

TONY ROBLES

ROSALINDA RUIZ-SCARFUTO

SUSAN TERRIS

MARK YOUNG

EILEEN R. TABIOS

FIRST 2021 POEM

is also an exercise in poeticizing autofiction. Autofiction is much on my mind because of forthcoming novel DOVELION (AC Books, New York, March-April 2021). Anyway, here's my first poem at Moss Trill:

"HOPE: First 2021 Poem"

I dedicate it to those who, as the poem cites, "still believe in ethics."

HAPPY NEW READING YEAR!

Remember my 2020 Anti-Tsundoku Project to read through and cut down on the To-Read piles stacked all over the house? Well, the wildfire did a better job of eliminating those piles than my reading efforts. As you can see by list below, the Glass Fire, which began in September, drastically reduced my reading:

 

January 2020 (65 books)

February 2020 (71 books)
March 2020 (32 books)
April 2020 (48 books)
May 2020 (59 books)
June 2020 (56 books)
August 2020 (26 books)

September 2020 (10 books)

October 2020 (10 books)

November 2020 (13 books)

December 2020 (13 books)

 

Total books read in 2020: a paltry (for me) 403 books. Not all books were “read” from beginning to end. The intent of Anti-Tsundoku was to go through the To-Read piles and either read or conclude not worth reading, in which case the latter were donated. Still, it wasn’t my reading that shortened those stacks—it was the wildfire which decimated them.

 

That’s okay. New beginnings, new year, etc. But I can mark today, January 1, with the shortest ever To-Read pile in my house. Three books—ta da!  But you know me, I shall have to ramp up the book acquisitions and readings again as 2021 ends my book-buying constraints. Here is the shortest To-Read Stack I've had in my life:

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

 Continuing her wonderful annual tradition, I'm pleased to share Sheila E. Murphy's holiday poem, "Winter Pantoum for 2021"!