I never met Steve Jobs, but after modeling in 4 projects for Apple, I like to think that he liked me—or at least my face.
What an honor to be so close (if only in image) to such a genius. Here are a few shots I found of my face at Apple keynote addresses. Thanks for the opportunity Steve. And thanks for all you’ve done for technology. My life is surely better for it.
…an awesome wardrobe! I am now a brand ambassador (or, Lolë friend) for Lolë, a Canadian fashion-tech apparel company for active women. Lolë is all about living your life to its fullest, and looking great while you do it. I’m stoked to be a part of the team and can’t wait to wear more Lolë. If you’ve seen me around Tahoe this summer, then you’ve already seen me in Lolë. My rocking orange bathing suit is the Lolë Bermude top and Mojito bottoms, purchased from Tahoe Mountain Sports’ Lolë inventory in Kings Beach.
Look for my contributions to the Lolë blog and Facebook page, as well as my Tweets spreading my love for @LoleWomen. I’ll be updating you soon on some pieces I’ll be giving a test drive.
It’s here! Love it when a book I work on is finally set in print. This particular one holds a special place among my bookshelf’s spines as it’s the first poetry collection I’ve edited. Such an honor to work on, and I look forward to exploring more poetry editing again soon. Buy Mud Cakes through Bona Fide Books, and support a genuine heart-fed press!
Here are just a few of Mud Cakes‘ early praises:
“In richly detailed poem-stories about a small-town Ohio childhood, Jason Schossler enacts the vertigo of individual experience inside collective memory: Star Wars games, car parts, Anglophilia among the Cocoa Puffs, a mother’s mouth ‘forming the zeros of loss,’ a neighbor whose ‘eyes shone like glass bottles out of the sea’ in his fervor for Jesus. Mud Cakes is alert and detail-rich, charming and estranging in just the right proportion. Reading it, we learn more about what it means to grow up American.”
— Daisy Fried, author of She Didn’t Mean to Do it
“In these wildly populated poems, Schossler announces himself a master of narrative collage.”
— Daniel Tobin, Guggenheim fellow and author of The Narrow
And just like that, I’m a published poet… thanks to Twitter and Veer’s font haiku contest! He he! The challenge? Create a haiku about a font that Veer sells, then tag it with #veerfonts on Twitter. I submitted three in two weeks, and the one above got chosen as a winner this week.
Here are my other two (you kinda need to see the fonts to get them so I’m linking to them below):
Corinthian spun / right round like a record, babe / Strobos is alright!
Her Vanilla Shake / is thick, yet beware—it is / good on eyes, not mouth.
Or I suppose you could say it’s here. The weather’s dipping down into the lower 30s at night now, and the light is fading fast come late afternoon. I’ve been busy working on small projects for a number of clients including campaign copywriting for Barton Memorial Hospital, copyediting for Clear Capital, editing for UNR’s Center for Basque Studies, back matter and catalog writing for The Child’s World, and blogging for Tahoe Mountain Sports. Wow, that sounds like a lot to do when it write it out… better get back to work!!
photos by me, taken at Bridgeport and Lake Tahoe
[fishing illustration by StudioTuesday]
In my DiStill Life column in Moonshine Ink this month (on stands Friday), I write about Tangled Roots Writing workshops, and the art of writing. I was so inspired by Karen Terrey’s workshops that I’m going to spend the next 6 weeks further exploring creative writing with her Monday night series. Will be fun to further hone my craft!
If you read my column and came here to see my poem from our “exploring a subject” prompts, here it is:
This one’s going into my postcard collection hall of fame.
I have some exciting new projects involving books! Won’t spill all the beans until things are completed, but here’s a sneak peek at the latest package to arrive at my house to help me in my work. Essentially, I’ll be penning some back matter and writing catalogs for a children’s book publisher.
In other news, I just proofread the Mud Cakes cover for Bona Fide Books, and its release is forthcoming. Jason Schossler‘s book tour starts early October, so check his site for details.
Heading to San Francisco this weekend and will be on the hunt for my face on a bus… I hear I’ve been riding around the city (around Market Street) but have yet to see it in person. I realize this is the smallest photo known to man, but a friend took it from his phone and it’s the only one I have. Let me know if you see me!
In the past few weeks for Smith + Jones I’ve proofread a conference planner for the North Lake Tahoe Visitors & Convention Bureau and written a Zephyr Cove Restaurant ad, for which my research included strolling around the resort, watching the MS Dixie II set sail (pictured above), and eating a nice dinner on the restaurant’s deck. It’s a tough life, people.
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