I'm so glad I have so many friends who know stuff.
Who among us can ignore the allure of really funny math puns?
Willow ,'Empty Places'
The Crying of Natter 49
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Allyson - Jan 17, 2007 3:39:01 pm PST #3713 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Lee - Jan 17, 2007 3:52:39 pm PST #3714 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
YAY on the book news Allyson!
JenP - Jan 17, 2007 4:10:17 pm PST #3715 of 10001
That's so exciting! The book news.
And you'll have a band of guerrilla (god, I love the spell check feature on Firefox - two rs in guerrilla. Who knew.) marketers fanning out through the major chains making sure the book stays faced out and prominently displayed.
I made pad thai for dinner tonight - from Trader Joe's. I say "made" because I actually had to boil water for the noodles and stir fry the vegetables instead of popping a bowl in the microwave. It was yum. And, I found unsweetened chai latte mix - score. I'd never found any kind other than sugar sweetened, and that made me sad. Oh! And...
ROOIBOS!
because I am so suggestible it's pathetic. It's tasty. Orange-spiced.
And in less trivial news (and by trivial, I mean my grocery list, clearly, and not the book news, which is the opposite of trivial), my second follow-up PAP came back clean, so yay. All in all, a good day.
Jesse - Jan 17, 2007 4:11:25 pm PST #3716 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dude, that's fucking awesome. And you totally have a platform, anyway. You'll sell hundreds of books to people who feel like they know you personally!
Also, I know a couple, one of whom is in marketing for a big publisher and the other of whom is a bookseller for a publisher, so if you ever want double-blind confirmation of what you're hearing, I could ask for translation.
DavidS - Jan 17, 2007 4:14:56 pm PST #3717 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm so glad I have so many friends who know stuff.
Of all the booky people around here, erinaceous is the one whose books would be most comparable to yours (from a marketing standpoint). So I would exploit her as a resource if I were you. And since I have personally exploited her as a resource on my last book (when she helped set up my Chicago reading), I think you'll be in good hands.
Cashmere - Jan 17, 2007 4:17:27 pm PST #3718 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Perhaps the hindquarters, rather than the, you know... buttly bits.
I nearly choked on my own tongue laughing at this phrase. From now on, it's buttly bits.
Kat - Jan 17, 2007 4:19:12 pm PST #3719 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
guerrilla (god, I love the spell check feature on Firefox - two rs in guerrilla. Who knew.)
I love that I just found out that this comes from Spanish, meaning "Little War."
I'm such a nerd.
because I am so suggestible it's pathetic
HA! and this is why I'm leaving my house at all tonight just to go pick up takeout Indian so I can have naan. (also yay for good test results!)
Jesse!
Fred Pete - Jan 17, 2007 4:21:27 pm PST #3720 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Great news, Allyson!
JenP - Jan 17, 2007 4:24:52 pm PST #3721 of 10001
Ha! As I was typing that I was thinking, huh, guerre, is war in French, isn't it? And yet, I still think gorilla when I think guerrilla, which is just lame of me.
Mmm. Naan.
Jesse - Jan 17, 2007 4:25:11 pm PST #3722 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hey Kat! I just insended to you.