Chrys Buckley
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Favorite Journalistic Nonfiction – My Year in Books 2025 Resuming my weekly tour through favorite books of 2025 after a bit of a hiatus. I'd love to say the break was just because I was so busy with grad school and book stuff and that was definitely part of it, but I was also in a doomscrolling…
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Favorite Journalistic Nonfiction – My Year in Books 2025
Resuming my weekly tour through favorite books of 2025 after a bit of a hiatus. I'd love to say the break was just because I was so busy with grad school and book stuff and that was definitely part of it, but I was also in a doomscrolling pit for weeks, because of course I was given all that's going on. Today we arrive at my favorite journalistic nonfiction. This category was a tie between two very different books that are both examples of excellent reporting: Blazing Eye Sees All…
http://chrysbuckley.com/2026/02/22/favorite-journalistic-nonfiction-my-year-in-books-2025/
about 1 month ago
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Reader Report – Holiday Romance One of the foundational parts of my Literary Agents and Acquisitions class as part of the Book Publishing master's program at Portland State University was learning to write Reader Reports. A Reader Report is when someone reads a manuscript that's been submitted to…
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Reader Report – Holiday Romance
One of the foundational parts of my Literary Agents and Acquisitions class as part of the Book Publishing master's program at Portland State University was learning to write Reader Reports. A Reader Report is when someone reads a manuscript that's been submitted to an agent or publisher and writes up an analysis. This report looks at the strengths and weakness of the story as well as how it fits in the market, then makes a recommendation for the publisher or agent to either accept or pass on the submission.
http://chrysbuckley.com/?p=9568
about 1 month ago
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If You Are a Music Fan . . . You Might Like INVISIBLE VIOLETS If you know (and everyone you know knows) you talk about music too much . . . If you ever had the urge to cover a driveway or sidewalk with chalk drawings of band logos, song names, and lyrics . . . If you credit music for getting you…
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If You Are a Music Fan . . . You Might Like INVISIBLEÂ VIOLETS
If you know (and everyone you know knows) you talk about music too much . . . If you ever had the urge to cover a driveway or sidewalk with chalk drawings of band logos, song names, and lyrics . . . If you credit music for getting you through your toughest times and hardest heartbreaks . . . If you frequently have the urge to blast music while driving (or while riding in a car if you're like me and can't drive) and sing along at the top of your lungs .
http://chrysbuckley.com/2026/02/12/if-you-are-a-music-fan-you-might-like-invisible-violets/
about 1 month ago
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I made an author newsletter, and I'd love for you to sign up and stay up to date with all the happenings and events for my forthcoming book INVISIBLE VIOLETS! Sometimes the algorithms are fickle, but my newsletter won't be.
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Developmental Editing Letter and Manuscript Markup – Mystery After Ooligan Press acquired Echoes of the Lost by Cindy Brown (originally titled What the River Knew), the first step was developmental editing. Instead of doing an intensive developmental editing process like the one in this portfolio…
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Developmental Editing Letter and Manuscript Markup – Mystery
After Ooligan Press acquired Echoes of the Lost by Cindy Brown (originally titled What the River Knew), the first step was developmental editing. Instead of doing an intensive developmental editing process like the one in this portfolio piece, we were asked to focus on specific aspects of the manuscript, and write a letter in any form as long as it was under two pages. (Full length DE letters tend to be quite a bit longer.) My assigned focus was character development. Here is my DE letter: Buckley_WTRK_DEDownload In addition to the letter, we were asked to mark up the full manuscript.
http://chrysbuckley.com/?p=9501
about 2 months ago
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Reader Report – Mystery In the winter of '25, Ooligan Press added Reader Reports to its acquisitions process. A Reader Report is when someone reads a manuscript that's been submitted to an agent or publisher and writes up an analysis. This report looks at the strengths and weakness of the story as…
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Reader Report – Mystery
In the winter of '25, Ooligan Press added Reader Reports to its acquisitions process. A Reader Report is when someone reads a manuscript that's been submitted to an agent or publisher and writes up an analysis. This report looks at the strengths and weakness of the story as well as how it fits in the market, then makes a recommendation for the publisher or agent to either accept or pass on the submission. This report was on a manuscript originally called What the River Knew by Cindy Brown, the author of the…
http://chrysbuckley.com/?p=9486
about 2 months ago
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BACK COVER REVEAL! First there was the COVER REVEAL. It's been a minute since then (!) and now it's time to reveal the back cover of INVISIBLE VIOLETS: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays! You can find book info, including how to pre-order signed and personalized copies here. With no further ado, here is…
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BACK COVER REVEAL!
First there was the COVER REVEAL. It's been a minute since then (!) and now it's time to reveal the back cover of INVISIBLE VIOLETS: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays! You can find book info, including how to pre-order signed and personalized copies here. With no further ado, here is the back cover:
http://chrysbuckley.com/2026/01/23/back-cover-reveal/
2 months ago
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Favorite Genre-Bender (and Funnest Book) – My Year in Books 2025 Continuing my weekly tour through favorite books of 2025, today we arrive at my favorite genre-bender and overall funnest book: Who Killed One the Gun? by Gigi LittleForest Avenue Press I don't know how to talk about this book other…
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Favorite Genre-Bender (and Funnest Book) – My Year in Books 2025
Continuing my weekly tour through favorite books of 2025, today we arrive at my favorite genre-bender and overall funnest book: Who Killed One the Gun? by Gigi LittleForest Avenue Press I don't know how to talk about this book other than to say, just read it. It's so good. Several people I know are getting this book as a birthday present in 2026. So what can I say that doesn't give too much away? A (self-described) third-rate private eye gets stuck in a time loop after being killed. He has to solve the case he was working on before he died and his own murder.
http://chrysbuckley.com/2026/01/18/favorite-genre-bender-and-funnest-book-my-year-in-books-2025/
2 months ago
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Invisible Violets – How to Get Signed and Personalized Books All the ways you can get signed and personalized books of Chrys Buckley's forthcoming memoir in essays, Invisible Violets: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays
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Invisible Violets – How to Get Signed and Personalized Books
All the ways you can get signed and personalized books of Chrys Buckley's forthcoming memoir in essays, Invisible Violets: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays
http://chrysbuckley.com/2026/01/16/invisible-violets-how-to-get-signed-and-personalized-books/
2 months ago
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How Did It Get So Late? When I think about INVISIBLE VIOLETS, my book that's releasing on March 13 (9 weeks from today!), it mostly fills me with joy and pride. I still tear up with feelings of, I can't believe this is really happening, OMGGGGG! Mixed in with all that joy and pride and omfg,…
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How Did It Get So Late?
When I think about INVISIBLE VIOLETS, my book that's releasing on March 13 (9 weeks from today!), it mostly fills me with joy and pride. I still tear up with feelings of, I can't believe this is really happening, OMGGGGG! Mixed in with all that joy and pride and omfg, though, is sorrow. It feels important to talk about that too. Some of the sorrows are too big to go into on here. One of them I may write about eventually but am not ready for yet because it's something I learned about very recently.
http://chrysbuckley.com/2026/01/09/how-did-it-get-so-late/
2 months ago
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If You Have a Disability . . . You Might Like INVISIBLEÂ VIOLETS The most prominent theme running through INVISIBLE VIOLETS is disability. So, if you are a disabled reader (or any other particular phrasing that feels right to you), this book is for you.
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If You Have a Disability . . . You Might Like INVISIBLEÂ VIOLETS
The most prominent theme running through INVISIBLE VIOLETS is disability. So, if you are a disabled reader (or any other particular phrasing that feels right to you), this book is for you.
http://chrysbuckley.com/2026/01/13/if-you-have-a-disability-you-might-like-invisible-violets/
2 months ago
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Favorite Literary Fiction – My Year in Books 2025 As promised in this Year in Books 2025 overview post, I'll be going into a bit more detail on each of my favorite reads of 2025 on Sundays. For the first installment, I give you my favorite lit fic novel that I read in 2025. And the winner is...…
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Favorite Literary Fiction – My Year in Books 2025
As promised in this Year in Books 2025 overview post, I'll be going into a bit more detail on each of my favorite reads of 2025 on Sundays. For the first installment, I give you my favorite lit fic novel that I read in 2025. And the winner is... The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai This book was recommended to me by my instructor for my final book design course. Throughout the term, I'd gotten to know that our tastes were pretty similar in that we both loved Tana French and Liz Moore's…
http://chrysbuckley.com/2026/01/11/favorite-literary-fiction-my-year-in-books-2025/
2 months ago
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My Year in Books 2025 This hasn't been a banner year for me in number of books read. Grad school will do that. So will managing two departments of a press. So will having your own book in the works—I'm pretty sure I reread my book 9 times this summer for editing purposes. So will the state of the…
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My Year in Books 2025
This hasn't been a banner year for me in number of books read. Grad school will do that. So will managing two departments of a press. So will having your own book in the works—I'm pretty sure I reread my book 9 times this summer for editing purposes. So will the state of the world. I didn't read as many books as I typically would. But, in all the chaos (internal and external) and busyness, I did read some excellent books. It was a banner year for quality, so I thought I would highlight some favorites.
http://chrysbuckley.com/2026/01/04/my-year-in-books-2025/
3 months ago
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Putting My Game Face ON Goodbye, 2025. Hello there, 2026. New year, new me. All that jazz. It's a wildly intense time in my life, and on Monday I go back to grad school for winter term. I'm gearing up for a doozy of a course load. And oh yeah, I also have a book coming out ten weeks from today. So…
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Putting My Game Face ON
Goodbye, 2025. Hello there, 2026. New year, new me. All that jazz. It's a wildly intense time in my life, and on Monday I go back to grad school for winter term. I'm gearing up for a doozy of a course load. And oh yeah, I also have a book coming out ten weeks from today. So there's that, too. Yesterday, I did a lot of my calendaring for the term, made a weekly template of when I'll do work for which class, when I'll fit in book promotion work, when I'll work on ebooks and audiobooks for my manager roles at Ooligan Press, when I'll shower, when I'll check my email, when I'll pee.
http://chrysbuckley.com/2026/01/02/putting-my-game-face-on/
3 months ago
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INVISIBLE VIOLETS is Available for Pre-Order! My book, INVISIBLE VIOLETS: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays is Available for Pre-Order from all the places! I'm so proud of this collection and each personal lyric essay within. There is darkness in these essay-songs, but writing was always a joy. Even when…
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INVISIBLE VIOLETS is Available for Pre-Order!
My book, INVISIBLE VIOLETS: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays is Available for Pre-Order from all the places! I'm so proud of this collection and each personal lyric essay within. There is darkness in these essay-songs, but writing was always a joy. Even when it made me cry, which was almost always, because I'm a sap like that. I can't wait for you to read this collection on MARCH 13th, 2026!
http://chrysbuckley.com/2025/11/19/invisible-violets-is-available-for-pre-order/
4 months ago
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COVER REVEAL! After many (too many?) rounds of editing, Invisible Violets: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays is locked and loaded for its March 13th launch date. Here is the cover!!!
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COVER REVEAL!
After many (too many?) rounds of editing, Invisible Violets: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays is locked and loaded for its March 13th launch date. Here is the cover!!!
http://chrysbuckley.com/2025/10/21/cover-reveal/
5 months ago
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Predictable Post-Term Energy Curves Since the term ended, I’ve gone through some swings in energy. And I’m remembering and realizing that it’s almost always this same pattern. The terms and the workloads may change, but this after-pattern is pretty constant.
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Predictable Post-Term Energy Curves
Since the term ended, I’ve gone through some swings in energy. And I’m remembering and realizing that it’s almost always this same pattern. The terms and the workloads may change, but this after-pattern is pretty constant.
http://chrysbuckley.com/2025/06/22/predictable-post-term-energy-curves/
9 months ago
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Catching Up with Chrys – a Time-Lapse in Taylor Swift Songs A lot has changed since the last time I was posting regularly in the fall of 2020, so I thought it was high time to catch you all up, bring some continuity to this site, and fill in the plot holes. And anyone who knows me, or has read…
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Catching Up with Chrys – a Time-Lapse in Taylor Swift Songs
A lot has changed since the last time I was posting regularly in the fall of 2020, so I thought it was high time to catch you all up, bring some continuity to this site, and fill in the plot holes. And anyone who knows me, or has read this site before will be unsurprised I'm doing it through songs.
http://chrysbuckley.com/2025/04/01/catching-up-with-chrys-a-time-lapse-in-taylor-swift-songs/
12 months ago
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I hope this algorithm feeds me ALL the AWP posts this week!
about 1 year ago
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The Call I was home sick from work. A bug had been rampaging through my grad program, and it was my turn. So I'd gone to bed early the night before. This was a good thing, because when I woke up, I had an email from Jill McCabe Johnson, the publisher at Wandering Aengus Press, sent the night…
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The Call
I was home sick from work. A bug had been rampaging through my grad program, and it was my turn. So I'd gone to bed early the night before. This was a good thing, because when I woke up, I had an email from Jill McCabe Johnson, the publisher at Wandering Aengus Press, sent the night before, asking if we could find a time for a call so she could ask me something.
http://chrysbuckley.com/2025/03/24/the-call/
about 1 year ago
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After all the Years that I Stood There on the Sidelines Wishing for Right Now About a month and a half ago, I did a thing. Today, I get to tell you that my book manuscript won the Wandering Aengus Press prize for nonfiction, which means MY BOOK IS GETTING PUBLISHED!
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After all the Years that I Stood There on the Sidelines Wishing for Right Now
About a month and a half ago, I did a thing. Today, I get to tell you that my book manuscript won the Wandering Aengus Press prize for nonfiction, which means MY BOOK IS GETTING PUBLISHED!
http://chrysbuckley.com/2025/03/19/after-all-the-years-that-i-stood-there-on-the-sidelines-wishing-for-right-now/
about 1 year ago
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What if I told you I'm back? bluesky jail was a drag... Still have zero clue why I got suspended just a couple days after joining, but I'm finally back on here with you all!
about 1 year ago
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Chrys Buckley
Wandering Aengus Press
about 1 year ago
Remember to get your literary prose & poetry manuscripts in by this Friday, Jan. 31! Wandering Aengus Press & its imprint Trail to Table have combined submissions. 1 fee : 2 presses : up to 4 awards 💙💙💙💙 We're eager to read your words!
wanderingaenguspress.com/submissions....
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Submissions
To make things easier for submitting authors, the editors at Wandering Aengus Press and its imprint, Trail to Table Press, have decided to combine submissions. We will publish up to two winners for...
https://wanderingaenguspress.com/submissions.html
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Yesterday I Did a Thing Yesterday, on the new moon and the lunar new year, I submitted a full-length book manuscript to the Wandering Aengus Press Book Awards. The manuscript I submitted is a collection of fourteen personal essays. The topics I explore within the pages are pretty reflective of…
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Yesterday I Did a Thing
Yesterday, on the new moon and the lunar new year, I submitted a full-length book manuscript to the Wandering Aengus Press Book Awards. The manuscript I submitted is a collection of fourteen personal essays. The topics I explore within the pages are pretty reflective of this site in general but with less Breaking Bad. Not none, mind you, but less. There are essays discussing blindness and albinism and disability, essays about medical school, essays featuring the internet of the early 2000s, essays touching on pop culture in so many forms, essays rooted in land and place.
http://chrysbuckley.com/2025/01/30/yesterday-i-did-a-thing/
about 1 year ago
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