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April 19, 2018 Leesa Cross-Smith

Exciting! I wrote an essay called IN PRAISE OF QUIET BOOKS for the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. It's avail only in print! And you can read my convo w/Silas House (one of my v fave writers) online here! You can also listen to me read the opening section of my essay on the Ampersand podcast!

I also wrote abt finding inspiration in period pieces and pretty dresses for WRITERS RECOMMEND!

And so many lovely and kind bookstagrammers have been taking the prettiest pics of WHISKEY & RIBBONS! You can follow me in IG @leesacrosssmith and I try to keep up w/posting them bc they're beautiful and I love seeing them!

Dig the EVENTS page for where I'll be for the rest of April and May! SOKY book fest, Arkansas Lit Fest, Parnassus Books in Nashville, Quail Ridge and Flyleaf and Greensboro Bound in NC! If y're in or around these places, come say Hi! <3

WHISKEY & RIBBONS is an OKRA PICK! And another lovely list!

January 4, 2018 Leesa Cross-Smith

WHISKEY & RIBBONS is a Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance OKRA PICK for WINTER 2018 which is super-awesome! And W&R was also included on this lovely list over @ The Rumpus WHAT TO READ WHEN 2018 IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!

AIN'T HALF BAD

December 7, 2017 Leesa Cross-Smith

The Oxford American KY Music Issue Launch was amaze and so much fun! I loved everylittlething abt it. And the next day, Sturgill Simpson tweeted @ me abt it which was just icing on the cake. Thank you, Sturgill. I LOVE YOU. You can read my essay AIN'T HALF BAD @ Oxford American. Longreads featured my essay over on their site which was a real treat! And so did The Sunday Long Read! Thanks y'all! Also, I wrote abt my writing space over @ the Split Lip blog and I wrote abt Otis Redding over @ Memoir Mixtape! Pls do sign up for my TinyLetter so I can send you loveletters abt books and words and and. Only abt THREE MONTHS until WHISKEY & RIBBONS is out in the world! <3

WHISKEY & RIBBONS GOODREADS/GOODIES GIVEAWAY & !

October 19, 2017 Leesa Cross-Smith

--> HI! You can enter to win an early copy of W&R that will come packaged in adorableness!

---> ALSO! I wrote abt how I wish I hadn't thrown out my teenage journals over @ Mutha!

&&& New TINYLETTER coming soonsies so pls do sign up! xo

MORE DREAMY W&R BLURBS!

October 3, 2017 Leesa Cross-Smith

Thank you so much to Alexander Chee and Bonnie Nadzam for reading/blurbing W&R alongside Lindsay Hunter and Megan Stielstra and Porochista Khakpour. A DREAM! PRE-ORDER LINK! TINYLETTER SIGN-UP LINK! xo (And I wrote abt THE WINE SHOW over @ Whiske yPaper.)