Category : uncategorized | Posted : May 31st, 2006
So today it was enthusiastically suggested to me, “Since your book’s not doing so well, maybe you should get a job as somebody else’s book publicist!”
Need I comment any further?
I didn’t think so.
Category : uncategorized | Posted : May 30th, 2006
Right now I’m reading Into Thin Air, which is making me really want to watch Vertical Limit, and also giving me hideous nightmares about being trapped on a snowy mountain. Note to self: Watching Vertical Limit would probably, actually, exacerbate this condition.
Speaking of movies, we all know why we watched The Brown Bunny (at least […]
Category : uncategorized | Posted : May 26th, 2006
If I have to read one more time that the birth of Angelina Jolie’s baby is the most anticipated since that of Jesus Christ…I will probably just mutter, “Jesus Christ,” and keep reading.
Category : uncategorized | Posted : May 23rd, 2006
I started a new book. I’m not going to say what it’s about because every time I do that, I jinx myself into not finishing what I started. I will say it’s wry…and that it’s supposed to be.
It’s not as hot as it was the other day. It will be even hotter than that next […]
Category : uncategorized | Posted : May 9th, 2006
My royalty statement from July-December 2005 is a fine testament to faltering numbers.
More than 50% (looks closer to 60-70, actually) of the stock that was shipped out to retailers since March of last year has been returned. (Which answers the question, “How come I can never find LLT in Borders or Barnes & Noble anymore?”)
I […]
Category : uncategorized | Posted : May 5th, 2006
I have honed my insect torturing skills with a new device–spray can air freshener! Works like a charm and you don’t even have to get that close to the little bastards. The only thing that scares me is imagining that a colony of roaches is peeking through my vents and nudging one another to say, […]
Category : uncategorized | Posted : May 2nd, 2006
Taken from an article in the NYT…
There are echoes in another scene in which one of Ms. Kinsella’s characters threatens another, “And we’ll tell everyone you got your Donna Karan coat from a discount warehouse shop.”In Ms. Viswanathan’s version, Opal threatens another girl, Priscilla, saying, “I’ll tell everyone that in eighth grade you used to […]
