Marketing the book

This week I received the copy from the marketing department that will appear on the book's jacket, the website of the press, in the catalog, etc. I also have a great blurb from a Harlem Renaissance scholar and my own ISBN numbers for both the cloth and e-book versions of Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian. I can't wait to see the cover.

Hyde Park High School (Chicago, Illinois), 1918

Regina Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian

I recently received feedback from the copy editor. I have a month to review the suggested changes and either accept them or suggest my own. After that, the manuscript will be typeset. 

The book

More news from the University of Illinois Press. The goal is to include the book in the spring 2014 catalog. The book should be out late spring or early summer. Tentatively the title will be Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian in a jacketed hardcover for $55! The manuscript has been sent to a copy editor and I should get feedback mid-August and will have a month to make the changes. I received marketing information from the press and an author marketing questionnaire. So exciting. Actually feel like an author. I hope to use the image in this post as the cover. Any suggestions for possible conferences, bookstores, possible prizes and awards to submit the book for would be welcomed in order to complete the questionnaire. I also have to come up with keywords, a  description of the book, a brief biographical sketch of me and author photo.  

Good news about the book

The book manuscript has passed another milestone at the University of Illinois Press and should officially go into production soon. I've been informed that this step should take about a year. I'm excited about finishing work on this project as a I start on my new project with a new blog, The Audre Lorde was a Librarian Project.

                                                                   

Regina Andrews                                                                                  Audre Lorde

Re: A new biography

I am currently reading Barbara Ransby's new biography, Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson (Yale University Press). Evidence suggests that Regina Andrews knew the Robesons and they definitely moved in the same circles in Harlem in the 1920s.

The full documentary - Harlem Renaissance Librarian: Regina Andrews

The full documentary for Harlem Renaissance Librarian: Regina Andrews (27 minutes).

The Trailer

Here is the trailer for the documentary Harlem Renaissance Librarian: Regina Andrews