May 2026
Have you discovered the May flowers that April promised?
Book Promotion
Have you discovered ideas for book promotion or marketing?
The curious want to know!
Send an email to me and I’ll share your thoughts in a future News & Notes.
Book Marketing and Promotion
With the release of their books months apart, Rebecca Evans and Hannah Rodabaugh joined forces to “foster support, bring together broader and interdisciplinary artists, and create a higher level of love for the literary industry.”
I’m sharing their trailer with you because I think it’s well done and might inspire you! Plus, it’s entertaining!
Reverberations Book Tour Trailer
Video Credit: Mia Miller
Rebecca’s Craft Courses, Readings & Workshops. Some courses are online, some might be at a location near you!
Save the Date! Wednesday, June 17
6 pm to 7:30 pm
Free on Zoom.
Presenter Susan Bono
Our past shapes us, but it doesn’t have to define us. In this 90‑minute Zoom workshop, we’ll explore how personal essay and memoir can help you approach and process unresolved events with compassion and insight. Through guided prompts, reflective discussion, and storytelling tips, you’ll learn ways to shape personal experiences into narratives that strive for clarity, connection, and emotional release. A safe, supportive space for writers of all levels.
Susan Bono is a teacher, freelance editor, and short-form memoirist who has facilitated writing workshops since 1993.
She is the author of What Have We Here: Essays about Keeping House and Finding Home.
Open for Submissions
The Mackinaw: A journal of prose poetry
Openfor prose poetry submissions throughout the month of May.
The New York Times Modern Love Stories
Modern Love is a weekly column about relationships, feelings, betrayals and revelations.
“Spry is a literary journal that features undiscovered and established writers’ concise, experimental, hybrid, modern, vintage or just plain vulnerable writing.”
Just Write!
And Submit when the time is right!
Marlene
Why Publish?
Stephanie Weaver answers the question:
“Would writing this book be enough for you? Would you be okay if it didn’t get published?”
Stephanie’s response: No.
“. . . because I needed to read this book at various times in my life: at twenty-five when losing against deep depression; at thirty-eight when deciding not to invite my parents to my wedding; at forty-five when struggling with reconciling without an apology; and at fifty-eight when drowning in grief after my mother finally died.
I believe there are readers out there in those situations who need this book to feel seen and heard, which is why I’ll spare no effort in promoting this book.”
Taking the “Me” Out of Book Promotion, March 30, 2026 Brevity Blog post.
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