Blog Posts for JoSelle Vanderhooft

We heard about the kids in Salt Lake City, and how they fight for you and me

JoSelle Vanderhooft — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:22:21 -0700

I just found out, via my colleague Troy Williams, that Amy Ray of the band Indigo Girls has written a song about one of Salt Lake City's independent radio stations, and the feisty, passionate and politically active queer community in Utah.Go read about the song, "SLC Radio" over at Troy's blog: http://www.queergnosis.com/queergnosis/2008/08/slc-radio-from.html. People always ask me why ...

Radio Free Bliss and PoetryVlog

JoSelle Vanderhooft — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:07:18 -0700

It's been a few weeks, thanks to me being buried with work, deadlines and getting ready for my late summer/early autumn jewelry sale. But there are new things for you to check out in the world of Joetry. KS Augustin interviews me here about my writing, my past work as a playwright and dramaturg and my thoughts on disability rights and depression here at Radio Free Bliss: ...

Woah woah woah woah on the Radio

JoSelle Vanderhooft — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:00:53 -0700

Hi everyone!I'm back in Utah in what appears to be one piece, and the pile that is my unanswered emails is terrifying me. While I answer them, why don't you have a listen to my July 12 interview on Hour of the Wolf on NYC's WBAI 99.5 FM if you missed it? It's got me talking about Utah and the American Western, joking around with host and all-around fabulous guy Jim Freund, laughing at crank ...

Well, nuts.

JoSelle Vanderhooft — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:47:02 -0700

Hi Red Room. I've got some potentially bad news for those of you who were hoping to pick up a copy of The Handless Maiden and Other Twice Told Tales at my KGB reading on July 16.As of this morning, the 30 copies of The Handless Maiden and Other Twice Told Tales my publisher shipped to me to sell at the reading are still in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa post office - where they've apparently been since ...

Wait, what?!

JoSelle Vanderhooft — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:06:30 -0700

Wow. I'm Red Room's Rising Star today (this week?). Spedoinkle!Hi everyone who came here from the front page! Please enter my book contest while you're here :). It's the blog post down from this one.

Win a copy of my new poetry collection.

JoSelle Vanderhooft — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:44:41 -0700

So Sam's Dot Publishing is releasing my second full-length poetry collection The Handless Maiden and Other Tales Twice Told this month. This book (a whopping 100 + pages!) collects many of my fairy tale and fantasy poems published between 2005 and early 2008 and is beautifully illustrated by my dear friend (and fellow 2008 Bram Stoker nominee) Marge Simon. To celebrate, I'm offering you your very ...

Hello, Red Room! and a reading near YOU

JoSelle Vanderhooft — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:29:25 -0700

Hello again, Red Room! It seems that I'm (at least one of) your newest authors. I'm thrilled to be here, and I thank the site's editors for their generosity and swift judgement. I am humbled by the honor and look forward to being a very active member of the community - even though I'll never get the kind of page visits Mr. Obama does ;).This is probably as good a time as any to announce that I ...

Labor pains

JoSelle Vanderhooft — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:07:41 -0700

Hello there, Red Room! Wow, the first day I get here what do I find? A review I wrote for author Alex Grant is on the main page! Awesome. Speaking of news, I'm also thrilled to say that I've got a poetry book coming out next week: The Handless Maiden and Other Tales Twice-Told, from one of my favorite independent presses, Sam's Dot Publishing. It contains 28 of my (mostly) long poems, including ...