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Release Day Delivery – and Cell Phone Wisdom, Part 4!
The thing that no one mentions about release day is how, really, it’s kind of anticlimactic. Unless you happen to have particularly attentive loved ones, the day of your book’s publication in and of itself is not necessarily momentous.
UNLESS…your publisher happens to arrange it so that your author copies arrive on your doorstep THAT VERY DAY!
(In other words — guess what I got this afternoon?)
What Would My Cell Phone Do?
BCCB had this to say about the book: “Fresh and funny…Readers looking for a lighthearted rom-com to kick off their summer will find much to like here.” Well, thank you!
Aggie’s cell phone has more fun than she does, and thus, we are soliciting CELL PHONE WISDOM this week. Whose phone is doling out the brilliance today?
Melissa Walker, author of Small Town Sinners
My cellphone would ask me to please stop leaving it at airport security, dropping it on the subway stairs and losing it between the couch cushions. It probably needs a better life than I can give it.
Denise Jaden, author of Losing Faith
My cell phone desperately wants to be put to use. If it were up to said cell phone, we would spend all day long together doing more than just checking my email. We would make use of the other forty apps, texting, and even phoning friends once in a while. The possibilities are endless (at least that’s what my cell phone tells me!)
Daniel Ehrenhaft, author of Friend Is Not a Verb
My cell phone would do the following, in no particular order:
1) Chastise me for getting sucked into its seductive void
2) Pat me on the back for being both impulsive and wise for my mobile iTunes purchases, even when I have the songs on CD at home
3) Toilet train my child
Um, not so sure about that last one, Dan. Cell phones may be wise beyond their years, but even technology has its limits!
Waiting on Wednesday (‘family’-style, again)
Still waiting on your copy? How about a teaser? A nice review for family in the April issue of Bayviews from the Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern California:
Teenage Melissa Jensen runs away to San Francisco to escape her relentlessly predatory “uncle” and her hapless mother. A dark stranger named Henry finds her curled up on a bench and convinces her after several days of sex and drugs in his van that he can be her father, her family, her “everything.” He brings her to a ranch in Southern California where he reigns as leader of a group of young men and women who unques tioningly accept his life view and do his bidding. Melissa is particularly struck by the lack of boundaries at this communal paradise—there is a feeling of limitlessness and vast grandios ity. Melissa tells her story in verse, and her voice is spacey and chilling. She is describing the Charles Manson saga to the tee, and the reader dreads the inevitable gruesome ending. Finally, however, Melissa finds she has personhood separate from the others. Though horrific and tragic, teens may be fascinated by a tale based on a sensational murder that uniquely fit its time and place.
Well, shucks!
Readers’ Roundup SPECIAL edition: All in the ‘family!’
A very belated Readers’ Roundup during a very hectic launch/birthday week!
On the off chance that you’re not sick of hearing me blab about the book
“A great read…Ostow’s poetry is beautiful.”
“Emotionally-packed.”
“A powerful story…by far one of my favorite books read this year.”
Wowza. It’s so great to hear that people are connecting to this weird little story of mine. And thanks, also, to The Contemps for a week of highlights and spotlights that make me blush.
And speaking of The Contemps, the Release Week Rally rocks on! Tomorrow – also known in my house as my birthday – I’ll be at The Voracious Reader in Larchmont, NY, alongside fellow contempos Sarah Darer Littman, Melissa Walker, and honorary inductee Lena Roy. Come for the books, stay for the pizza!