Laura Maylene Walter
In the first part of this series, I mentioned my virtual launch party for
Body of Stars, which included a guest visit from The Poetry Psychic Project along with custom cocktail recipes. (I drank a Celestial Shimmer complete with luster dust, a recipe concocted by mixologist Gibson Oakely, who’d made cocktails for an earlier
Kenyon Review virtual event.) It was the best I could think to do to replicate, in a virtual environment, the in-person launch I might have hosted if the pandemic never happened.
As I detailed in my March/April 2021
Poets & Writers essay, “Revising the Dream: Publishing a Debut Novel in an Uncertain World,” once