Hello to all my friends!! Been a while but I have been busy with life and writing too. I only got out TH'ing about 6 times this season but did play a lot of golf. Maybe next year I will TH a little more.
Great news for me, after working on it for a couple years, my book manuscript was accepted by a Boston Massachussetts publisher. Mice Verses Man was officially released yesterday by Big Table Publishing Company. I am really excited as you can imagine as this was one of my biggest goals when I started writing poetry in 2002.
I will be getting my copies next week and will be promoting it around here and there, doing readings trying to get it out there. I will paste the official press release below but if anyone is interested in buying a signed copy from me you can PM me here for details and payment options, email me at [email protected], or go to my Mice Verses Man blog where I have a Paypal Button there on the right side where you can make a purchase. http://miceversesman.blogspot.com
Thanks for reading, I miss you all a lot. I hope you know that this board and you, my friends are a huge inspiration to me and part of the reason I am able to celebrate this moment.
Peace to all!
Boobydoo
aka R Jay Slais
Press Release:
Mice Verses Man
by R Jay Slais
Now Available from Big Table Publishing Company Chapbook Series
From the edgy anticipation of his first prostate exam witnessed by an attractive young nurse trainee, to dealing with his new status as a single father of two heartsick children, R Jay Slais simply refuses to cower from matters that are embarrassing, terrifying, or heartbreaking. Honest observations, as if painted by an artist's brush colorized with the pain and emotion the natural world so often presents, Mice Versus Man takes readers on a treacherous journey through regret, divorce, death, and drug addiction, until at last we reach insight, wisdom and whoa, even romance!
W.B. Burkholder at Troubador21 said, “R Jay Slais is a dynamic poet, whose first collection, Mice Verses Man, is destined to fly from the shelves.” For Steve Meador, author of Pack Your Bags, A Good Sharp Knife, and Throwing Percy from the Cherry Tree, “R Jay Slais braids nature with humor and face-slapping reality that allows the reader to feel like a longtime friend. He is adept with language, structure and planting seeds of emotion, and one cannot help but feel lifted by 'January and all its newness is coming.'” And Seth Michelson, author of House in a Hurricane, said, “R Jay Slais will turn your mouth into a harp, and with it you'll mourn what's lost always. Here are the deaths of children by disease and drugs, the destruction of a marriage, a world haunted by dead parents, and so much brutally more. At the same time, these poems resist despair, and that clash climaxes in exultant moments of lyrical trembling. It often begins so quietly, in close observations of the quotidian, the mundane, before spreading outward, quickly, in concentric circles soon to enclose you in their world. Such is the pleasure of Mice Verses Man.”
Great news for me, after working on it for a couple years, my book manuscript was accepted by a Boston Massachussetts publisher. Mice Verses Man was officially released yesterday by Big Table Publishing Company. I am really excited as you can imagine as this was one of my biggest goals when I started writing poetry in 2002.
I will be getting my copies next week and will be promoting it around here and there, doing readings trying to get it out there. I will paste the official press release below but if anyone is interested in buying a signed copy from me you can PM me here for details and payment options, email me at [email protected], or go to my Mice Verses Man blog where I have a Paypal Button there on the right side where you can make a purchase. http://miceversesman.blogspot.com
Thanks for reading, I miss you all a lot. I hope you know that this board and you, my friends are a huge inspiration to me and part of the reason I am able to celebrate this moment.
Peace to all!
Boobydoo
aka R Jay Slais
Press Release:
Mice Verses Man
by R Jay Slais
Now Available from Big Table Publishing Company Chapbook Series
From the edgy anticipation of his first prostate exam witnessed by an attractive young nurse trainee, to dealing with his new status as a single father of two heartsick children, R Jay Slais simply refuses to cower from matters that are embarrassing, terrifying, or heartbreaking. Honest observations, as if painted by an artist's brush colorized with the pain and emotion the natural world so often presents, Mice Versus Man takes readers on a treacherous journey through regret, divorce, death, and drug addiction, until at last we reach insight, wisdom and whoa, even romance!
W.B. Burkholder at Troubador21 said, “R Jay Slais is a dynamic poet, whose first collection, Mice Verses Man, is destined to fly from the shelves.” For Steve Meador, author of Pack Your Bags, A Good Sharp Knife, and Throwing Percy from the Cherry Tree, “R Jay Slais braids nature with humor and face-slapping reality that allows the reader to feel like a longtime friend. He is adept with language, structure and planting seeds of emotion, and one cannot help but feel lifted by 'January and all its newness is coming.'” And Seth Michelson, author of House in a Hurricane, said, “R Jay Slais will turn your mouth into a harp, and with it you'll mourn what's lost always. Here are the deaths of children by disease and drugs, the destruction of a marriage, a world haunted by dead parents, and so much brutally more. At the same time, these poems resist despair, and that clash climaxes in exultant moments of lyrical trembling. It often begins so quietly, in close observations of the quotidian, the mundane, before spreading outward, quickly, in concentric circles soon to enclose you in their world. Such is the pleasure of Mice Verses Man.”
I didn't even get out metal detecting that much last season...until finally taking a trip to AZ in Oct/Nov. Hopefully I'll get more T"Hing done this year too...if the snow goes away.
congratulations! I sent you an off list email also. 
EVERYONE here should buy a copy, $14 shipped, cant beat that! I'll post a review after we receive the book! 
