Shaindel Beers : part one

Shaindel Beers is author of the poetry collections A Brief History of Time (Salt Publishing, 2009), The Children’s War and Other Poems (Salt, 2013), and Secure Your Own Mask (White Pine Press, 2018). Her poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently an instructor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon, in eastern Oregon’s high desert, and serves as poetry editor of Contrary.

What are you working on?

I’m going to give the most embarrassing answer that there is. I’m currently working on promoting my third book. Book promotion is an entirely different type of energy from writing, but when something strikes me to write about, I’ll definitely write. But a book is like a baby. When it first comes out, it’s a newborn, and you have to take care of it. You have to keep on top of sharing reviews, doing interviews, all of that stuff. You have to honor the writing you’ve already done by supporting it. So, I’m going to make this plea on behalf of all authors. When you read their work and it resonates with you, write a quick review on Goodreads and then copy and paste the same review to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, anywhere you can think of. These are the small actions you can do that support writers.