YAY on the book news Allyson!
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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.
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.
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.
Fred Pete - Jan 17, 2007 4:25:53 pm PST #3723 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
If I remember my high school Romance languages, French is "guerre," Spanish is "guerra," Latin is forgotten.