The Launch is Dead, Long Live the Launch: Advice for Authors in a New Age

I published a book in the pandemic. Here’s how I made it work.

Photo by Bob Krasner: Up On The Roof with the Bushwick Book Club: Top, L-R Serena Jost, Jessie Kilguss, Brandy Schillace, Marlon Cherry, Susan Hwang, Dan Machlin, Mya Byrne. Bottom, L-R: Charlie Nieland, Damon Beirne, Mark Schillace

I boarded the plane, tugging a carry-on and trying to ignore the persistent under-mask nose-itch. It was June and sticky-hot; I’d definitely dressed all wrong for this, my first flight since pandemic lock-down over a year before. Tucked…