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The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket: Poems (The National Poetry)

Kinsale Drake

Jacqueline Allen Trimble

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The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket traverses the Southwest landscape, exploring intricate relationships between Native peoples and the natural world, land, pop culture, twentieth-century music, and multi-generational representations.

Oscillating between musical influences, including the repercussions of ethnomusicology, and the present/past/future, the collection rewrites and rerights what it means to be Indigenous, queer, and even formerly emo in the twenty-first century.

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Boozhoo Books\ \ Naomi\ \ • Jan 10

[Hello Friends!\ \ Happy New Year! You may think I'm late, but the French say Happy New Year for the entire month of January and I like this tradition! So HAPPY NEW YEAR!\ \ I spent the New Year in the Redwoods (The North Coast is my favorite part of California)!\ \ Publishing Updates\ \ I am so thankful for all of you and your support of What Feeds Below. One of my immediate goals was to get 1,000 adds on Goodreads and because of you, in just over two weeks we are at 927! That is so incredible! You may have heard me say it before, but supporting indie and marginalized authors on Goodreads is so important! Adding books to your Want to Read shelf helps these books get noticed, gets them on media lists, gets book box attention and signals to publishers that the book is going to do well. This can help author's land future contracts. I know many of my supporters have migrated to author platforms, but if you want to support marginalized author's, I strongly urge you to consider using both. If you haven't added What Feeds Below to your Goodreads shelves yet, please do so here.\ \ PREORDERS: I've been pretty blunt (surprise, surprise lol) about my very ambitious preorder goal for What Feeds Below. I want to hit 1,000 preorders early, like by tomorrow haha! There are 2 BIG reasons why:\ \

I am absolutely obsessed with this book. I think it has the potential to be such a huge hit (I'm thinking big: movies! I'm already preparing my red carpet dress. PLEASE! Dare I say...TRILOGY?) I think this is the best book Tatiana has written so far. I think most people will read it in one sitting. I think there are so many cosplay opportunities! I think you're going to sleep with the lights on! I want this book to compete with trad pub releases this year. I want book box options. I want to hit a best seller list.\ \
I want to publish more books. I want the books I publish to be in conversation with some of the hottest books of the year. (I have great taste, so they should be LOL). After WFB, we have Cracks in an Ocean of Glass, an incredible literary horror coming out in Spring 2027. I want ensure a book for Fall 27. (I've already received a pitch for an Indigenous sci-fi fantasy that I'm pretty sure the world needs). The way to make sure we get there is to hit these preorders early!\ \ \ There are over 2,000 of you here now! That's 2,000 readers who believe in this mission, who believe traditional publishing has failed us, who believe women in horror deserve equal conversation time to their male counterparts and Indigenous authors need more books on the shelves at your local bookstore. If all 2,000 of you pre-ordered this book today, you would not only change my life, but the lives of our current and future authors. The book is $16.73 on bookshop right now. GRAB IT HERE. If you can spare the $16.73 this month, investing in marginalized authors, investing in indie publishing, investing in this change we want to see in the world is a great way to spend it.\ \ READING UPDATES\ \ I've read 3 books so far this year:\ \

Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson, this is an adult mystery where the main character has 7 days to live and needs to solve her murder before she dies. I did enjoy this one, but I'm going to recommend that you read a physical copy or E reader version.\ \
The Sky Was Once A Dark Blanket:Poem s by Kinsale Drake, beautiful Indigenous poetry collection. I am going to read more poetry this year!\ \
The Last Witch by CJ Cookie, holy crap! My first book by CJ Cooke and I'm hooked. I need to read all of their books right now! 15th century Innsbruck, women accused of witchcraft, historical horror at its finest!\ \ \ Current reads:\ \
This is Not A Test by Courtney Summers, a Bindery spring release! and Women in Horror Book Club February pick (and yes Courtney will be joining us for a bookclub meeting!) I'm reading the audio as a Libro ALC and this is a zombie book full of feelings! You're going to have them! Wow!\ \
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier, this was supposed to be a 2025 reread but I started in 2025 and now I read multiple books at the same time apparently. A mood reading queen! Loving every minute of this reread. And annotating! YES!\ \
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, Women in Horror Book Club read for January! Oh, I'm loving this collection of short horror stories. I need Machado to put out another book like this year please.\ \ \ On deck:\ \
To The Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage, this is Good Day to Read Indigenous book club selection for January!\ \ \ JOIN THE COMMUNITY\ \ To join the Women in Horror book club and Good Day To Read Indigenous Book Club, connect to our community Discord on the main page.\ \ Journal CLUB!\ \ We are starting a 100 day project tomorrow using the prompts in The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice For An Inspired Life by Suleika Jaouad. You don't have to start tomorrow to join, just have a love for journaling (or wanting to try!)\ \ Upcoming for Paid Members:\ \ Paid members get publishing news first. They get to see the cover process in action. They get to hear about all the publishing meeting that happen and provided input! If you're interested in how the book all comes together, consider upgrading to $5.\ \ $5 members will get e*arcs of all Boozhoo Books.\ \ $12 members will get physical arcs of all Boozhoo Books AND their name on the thank you page.\ \ Your paid membership makes this community run. Part of the funds go into the production of the books and I'm using the rest to host giveaways (and sometimes buy a latte!)\ \ Letter Club: you heard it here first. I'm starting a penpal club for paid members (still working on the name? IDEAS??? Will keep you posted in the upcoming weeks!\ \ Traveling Arc Club: more details to come, but I've wanted to start a traveling arc club for a long time! Books chosen will have permission from the publisher or author. (If you are an author reading this and want to participate, DM me!)\ \ Traveling Journal Club: the idea here is that everyone has their own journal to start off, and we rotate, adding things to the journal, the journal gets circulated to all members until it's full and then mailed back to the original owner as a keepsake. Details to come!\ \ Upcoming Content:\ \
more On Your Radar lists are coming!\ \
Get A Rec responses (If you didn't notice the button at the top of the page, you can now request a rec! I have a few to work through and give responses so will be working on them this week!)\ \
Recommendations for books to read for the Read More Indigenous Non Fiction Storygraph Challenge](https://boozhoo.binderybooks.com/item/Fnx75kUn3IZ9CmssDmx9/)

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Boozhoo Books\ \ Naomi\ \ • May 18 2025

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Indigenous edition! How many of these have you read and how many are on your TBR! Add them up and drop your score below! Also, if you’re seeing this and you haven’t followed me on Bindery yet for free, can you please do that? It’s quick and simple and would make an impact! #boozhoobooks #indigenous books #booksrecs

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Boozhoo Books\ \ Naomi\ \ • Nov 30 2024

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