How to Market a Personal Essay Collection: terenabell.medium.com/how-to-marke... @tylergore.bsky.social‬ @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social‬ #bookpublicity #bookmarketing

Heading to Brooklyn Book Festival? Stop by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social for a secret look in this title, publishing in Dec. Shh.

Great day at @bkbookfest.bsky.social yesterday. 21 attendees recorded readings from our books at our booth. Here's Laura reading Melissa McCarthy. youtube.com/shorts/-jTUd...

"Go where the readers are. That isn't always where the other books are." This & other #bookmarketing tips on my Hidden Gems Podcast episode that dropped today: www.hiddengemsbooks.com/podcast/trut...

At the Brooklyn Book Festival on September 21, I had the opportunity to record this video for Sagging Meniscus press. I'm looking forward to reading the book, Wings, by Amir Or, translated from the Hebrew by Seth Michelson: @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social #writing

The long-awaited second novel by Guillermo Stitch, coming this Bloomsday. Available now for preorder at  https://thecoastofeverything.com and https://saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/the_coast_of_everything. "A timeless, extraordinary work.”—Nuala O’Connor

www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-... Wow! Here's a lovely interview I did did with @tylergore.bsky.social for the Washington Independent Review of Books, all about my book Spine. He squeezed a lot out. I was a tube of toothpaste between his expert thumb and forefinger.

I had a blast interviewing John Patrick Higgins (@johnnymuggins.bsky.social) for @wirobooks.bsky.social about his wickedly funny bad-back memoir, SPINE. Got to talk about Psycho, the "girl on the rock," and whether humor is a form of mental illness.

Happy to see that @vickmickunas.bsky.social of WYSO's Book Nook loved the "brutal hilarity" of SPINE by @johnnymuggins.bsky.social as much as I did! It's just a great memoir -- every sentence is an object lesson in wit.

Dana Barnes (@dbaredit.bsky.social)'s vivid account of caring for her dying father is told with honesty, humor, and affection. Terrific long-form narrative essay -- poignant, memorable and very readable.

The thing where it's so hot you keep taking trays of ice out of the freezer to refresh your drink, but it's too hot to bother to refill them, and before you know it, you're out of ice.

I'll be at the INDIE LIT FAIR today. 12-5pm, Lafayette Street near Astor Pl. (FREE) I'll signing copies of MY LIFE OF CRIME at the @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social table. Look for the hungover writer who forgot to print business cards. @clmporg.bsky.social www.clmp.org/indie-lit-fa...

Explains why all my clothes are covered in fur.

@terenabell.bsky.social put together a Bookshop list of great small press titles she's represented. Thanks so much for including MY LIFE OF CRIME, Terena!

Check out our new Facebook page. Follow us there for news and announcements! bit.ly/43y0FjI #books #podcast #writers #creativewriting

Yep, that's a genuine steel standard-issue NYC trash basket, flat as a pancake. Even the trash inside is flat.

Even after publishing MASTER LOVERS, @dqw1639.bsky.social has continued to research the Nazi connections of his Jewish Aunt Dorle's lover John F. Carter. This fascinating essay concerns "Putzi," Hitler's bumbling press secretary. @exactingclam.bsky.social www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-16...

30% of TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE this week only online (code: fomonomo) or at booth 563 at #awp25: whiskeytit.com/product/tell...

I loved this book! Cary Grant's Suit by Todd McEwen is really a kind of loopy memoir disguised as a book about movies. The subtitle tells you what you're in for: "Nine Movies That Made Me The Wreck I Am Today." I have been a fan of McEwen for decades.

Wow! Very honored to find MY LIFE OF CRIME included in Pat Duffy's Neurodiversity Celebration Week round-up of "Novels with Neurospicy Characters"! #neurodiversity #booksky Check it out here in Journey Through The Senses magazine: www.journeythroughthesenses.org/2025/03/21/j...

@terenabell.bsky.social used her experiences with promoting my collection My Life of Crime to discuss approaches in marketing a collection of personal essays. It's terrifically insightful -- Terena is wonderful publicist, and she certainly helped me a lot. @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

welp I’ve stumbled upon the Nietzsche Family Circus www.nietzschefamilycircus.com

All about that, personality crisis, you got it while it was hot But now frustration and heartache is what you got youtube.com/watch?v=2aQT...

Well, thanks @stevesparshott.bsky.social for the kind words about "Dec 26” in @exactingclam.bsky.social. From now on, I'm going to use your succinct summary of the essay : "Christmas is largely bollocks and there's too much of it." www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-3-...

Where is Hari Seldon when you need him?

In which there are many reasons to obey and one not to. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...

Fuck you, Google. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/g...

And yet here we are. youtu.be/zYjlZVNFjiI?...

www.popmatters.com/john-patrick... Review of "Fine" in Popmatters: "Lines of action are as invisibly elegant and neatly crafted as any one of the writer’s beautiful sentences. Both gut-bruisingly funny and achingly sad. The line between the tragic and the comic is, of course, a fine one." Wow!

Great way to close out 2024, with the always great @vickmickunas.bsky.social in-depth interviews of an astonishingly wide-range of authors.

Security camera capturing the moment we stole our tree from Home Depot.

Something I like about Bluesky... I can click on an image and enlarge it by pinch as much as I want. I can't do this on Instagram.

Just thought I'd post @tylergore.bsky.social's screenshot of this screenshot from Threads from Bluesky from Threads from Bluesky from Threads back on to Bluesky.

Jasper is definitely tilting towards naughty. Happy Christmas Eve, everyone!

Just thought I'd post @mjnicholls.bsky.social's screenshot from Bluesky from Threads from Bluesky from Threads back on to Threads.

Congratulations to our 2024 Pushcart Prize nominees: Melissa McCarthy, Kat Meads, @ianboulton.bsky.social, @colinmgee.bsky.social, Kurt Luchs, and Thomas Walton!

My collage art made the cover of the new Exacting Clam (@exactingclam.bsky.social)! It's a tribute to Kurt Luch's terrific & funny memoir in the issue: www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-15...

Not at all by popular demand: here's the most alienating piece of writing I've ever published. Trust me, I'm still getting coal in my stocking as a result. www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-3-... (Excerpted from My Life of Crime, published in @exactingclam.bsky.social)

Thanks for sitting down with us, Tyler! As a fellow writer, I found this interview to be a breath of fresh air. Sometimes we get so bogged down in our end goals that we forget that we're writing because we truly enjoy telling stories. As Tyler says: "Let your freak flag fly."

This beauty arrived early. Bumper edition of @exactingclam.bsky.social. Officially out in a few days. Thanks to @tylergore.bsky.social for another snazzy cover. Wait till you get a load of our new Not in Translation series.

Jenny Fisher interviewed me for the @celtx.com blog! We discuss why I'd be terrified to be a stand-up comedian, why I dislike the writing advice "Show, Don't Tell," and which actor I'd choose to play ME in a movie adaptation of MY LIFE OF CRIME. blog.celtx.com/interview-ty...

#brooklynbookfestival Sun 9/29 (tmw) -- I'll be signing copies of MY LIFE OF CRIME at the @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social table (BOOTH 626) in the creepy parking lot just to the right of the entrance (Joralemon & Adams). There may be cookies. There will certainly be kooks.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,356,311!

Kafkaesque? Moi? www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/0...

"To follow a broken line, thinking it is a place you want to—need to—go." Tomoé Hill Found in the amazing Spring Issue of Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social @curiosothegreat.bsky.social @davidcollard.bsky.social @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social

Do read, and get all your artist friends to read, Tomoé Hill's recently-published 'Songs for Olympia'. www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/song... One of those books about art like Berger's 'Ways of Seeing' that change how we think and feel about what we see.

Everyone's talking about pronouns these days, and every issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social is packed with 'em! Help support @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social and our weird little litmag by visiting our merch store. sagging-meniscus.printify.me/products/1

I'll be reading with Drunken! Careening! Writers! TONIGHT, 7:00 pm at the famous East Village literary dive, KGB Bar. FREE! I'll be joined by @kellidunham.bsky.social, Kevin Holohan, Charles Salzberg, and our host Kathleen Warnock. Hope you can make it!! (85 East 4th Street, in the bar upstairs).

The King Of Clubs - the golf story from Sporting Moustaches - live at Book Suey, Hamtramck, MI complete with commentary youtu.be/Jt9BN3C9oDU

“I wanted to sound like my influences early on & I failed miserably. …I didn't think of myself as copying, but I was. After you do enough of that, you finally begin to realize, oh, this is me. And then you learn to go with that.” Cool piece on me in Matter News www.matternews.org/culture/word...