Today is Blog Tour #10

Hi everyone,

Yesterday was publication day for AFTER DARK, POEMS ABOUT NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, and I had a great day. My thanks to everyone who helped in some way to make the occasion so special.

Today is Stop #10 on the tour and I’m happy to say that the host is Renee La Tulippe, in Italy over at No Water River (https://www.nowaterriver.com/). Most of you know Renee and/or her wonderful achievements in preserving the work and voices of poets. On an early occasion when she interviewed me, for some reason I was full of silly responses and that’s how our relationship began. I’m not sure Renee believes I have a serious thought in my head because when she agreed to host me on this tour I sent her my answers first. Well…

So I’ve been looking forward to seeing today’s post and discover what my patient friend has managed to make of what I sent her. I hope you’ll enjoy her post. I’m quite sure that I will.

Renee, let the fun begin. Seriously.

Blog tour stop #6

Hi everyone,

I’m so pleased that Michelle Kogan at Michelle Kogan–Art, Illustration, & Writing (https://moreart4all.wordpress.com/2020/02/20/blog-tour-after-dark-poems-about-nocturnal-animals-by-david-l-harrison/?fbclid=IwAR3WcYEV2kz3UAHVSIfMBS49KRvZY59i7geSbSid08CKqwf19Vv9Klci5xs) is hosting tour stop #6 today. I’m grateful to Michelle, as I have been each day to my hosts — Kathy Temean, Carol Varsalona, Jane Heitman Healy, Sylvia Vardell, and Linda Baie. I’m truly blessed.

I’m put in the shade by the technical skills and ability to use social media by my hosts. I keep forgetting that this tour also has a hashtag that anyone can use to aid the cause: #AfterDarkBlogTour. Lots of tweets and FB notices too. What a learning curve I’m on!

In other matters, I learned yesterday that the most recent volume of SOMETHING ABOUT THE AUTHOR, the series of reference books about authors, came out in December. I’m in it and saw the draft some time ago of a rather lengthy article about my work, but I didn’t realize the book was now in print and making its way into library reference rooms around the country. Not many individuals will pop for a copy at the fancy price of $285. Not this individual anyway.

1st stop on the blog tour for AFTER DARK

Hi everyone,

Today kicks off my blog tour to introduce people to AFTER DARK, POEMS ABOUT NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, which makes it debut on Tuesday, February 25. My thanks to Kathy Temean for leading off at:

2/11/20 Tuesday
Kathy Temean at Writing & Illustrating
https://kathytemean.wordpress.com/
or http://www.writingandillustrating.com

You are invited to follow along as the tour moves forward. Several hosts are offering ways to win a free copy of AFTER DARK. Please feel free to share, tweet, email, text, Facebook, hashtag, etc. etc. if you would like to. Comments on Amazon and B&N noble sites also are a huge help to others who are deciding if they want to see the book too.

My thanks to all!
David

Blog tour schedule

Hi everyone,

Here we are in February 2020. How did that happen? Didn’t we just start this year? I only stopped wishing folks a Happy New year a little while ago. Wow!

Three weeks from tomorrow, February 25, is pub day for AFTER DARK, POEMS ABOUT NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, and my blog tour to help introduce the book begins one week from today on February 11. I’m very grateful for all the good people who have agreed to be hosts on the tour and give special thanks to Jena Benton for creating a beautiful graphic so everyone can follow the schedule. And thanks to Kerry McManus at Boyds Mills & Kane for suggesting a helpful hashtag: #AfterDarkBookTour to further boost the cause. I’m excited!

Here’s the graphic with a list of blog names and dates. In many cases I’ve been asked to respond to questions. In total my responses were 17 pages long. No one asked the same question! Renee La Tulippe asked for a video so I made one for the day she hosts.

Here’s the complete list of hosts. I hope you will check their blogs each day to say hi or leave a comment. Hosting an author with a new book takes a lot of work and I can’t thank them enough.

2/11/20 Tuesday
Kathy Temean at Writing & Illustrating
https://kathytemean.wordpress.com/
or http://www.writingandillustrating.com

2/13/20 Thursday
Carol Varsalona at Beyond LiteracyLink
https://beyondliteracylink.blogspot.com

2/17/20 Monday
Jane Heitman Healy at Read, Learn, and be Happy
http://readlearnandbehappy.blogspot.com/

2/18/20 Tuesday
Sylvia Vardell at PoetryForChildren
https://poetryforchildren.blogspot.com

2/19/20 Wednesday
Linda Baie at Teacher Dance
https://www.teacherdance.org/

2/20/20 Thursday
Michelle Kogan atMichelle Kogan–Art, Illustration, & Writing
https://moreart4all.wordpress.com/

2/21/20 Friday
Janice Scully at Salt City Verse
http://janicescully.com

2/24/20 Monday
Margaret Simon at Reflections on the Teche
http://reflectionsontheteche.com

2/25/20 Tuesday – PUBLICATION DAY!
Jena Benton at Simply 7
https://jenabenton.com/category/simply7-interview/

2/26/20 Wednesday
Renée LaTulippe at No Water River
https://www.nowaterriver.com/

2/27/20 Thursday
Linda Mitchell at A Word Edgewise
https://awordedgewiselindamitchell.blogspot.com/

2/28/20 Friday
Matt Forest Esenwine at Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme
https://mattforrest.wordpress.com/

3/2/20 Monday
Irene Latham at Live Your Poem
https://irenelatham.blogspot.com/

3/3/20 Tuesday
Catherine Flynn at Reading to the Core
https://readingtothecore.wordpress.com/?p=950&preview=true ` `