maybe because I AM a little tipsy. Only one glass of wine, but that’s all it takes, isn’t it? Anyway, I’m off to New York tomorrow so this is my last post for a while. Although I’m taking my computer so if the hotel has WiFi and I feel inspired, who knows? THANK YOU to [...]
Entries from September 2008
September 28, 2008
Zero People Find This Interesting . . .
Maybe that headline isn’t the best way to gain new readers, but I figured I’d beat Amazon to the punch. Why wait for their customers to let me know how uninteresting my blog is when I can simply own it, myself? It’s less painful to start where this whole thing is going to end, like cauterizing [...]
September 24, 2008
Nude animals!
The drop-off in my blog numbers after my recent posting has confirmed my earlier speculation that people like to read, watch, think about sex and nothing else can capture their attention in quite the same way. I tried to write a nice little account of my life with various pets and what happens? No one cares because [...]
September 22, 2008
My Animal Life
The kids are in school (we have five at the moment, because my husband’s niece is staying with us for the school year), my husband’s at work, and miraculously I’m alone in the house right now. Unless, of course, you count the two turtles, three mice, two dogs, one praying mantis, and the frog who are still [...]
September 17, 2008
Sex, XXX, Sex, Naked Nudity, and Sex
When I put the word “penis” in the title of my last blog, it was–more or less–relevant to the story I was telling. But I knew the word had a certain amount of shock value and remembered reading somewhere that the more catchy your title, the more likely you are to have your blog read. [...]
September 15, 2008
Waiter, There’s a Penis in My Book Soup
Am I allowed to say “penis” in a blog that feeds into Amazon? I guess I’ll find out the hard way. (That was a complete accidental pun. Really. I hate puns.) So on Saturday I had a booksigning at Book Soup in West Hollywood. Given the fact that I had publicized the wrong time for [...]
September 11, 2008
Always Bring a Child to Your Reading and other things I’ve learned
So last night I had my first official book signing for The Smart One and the Pretty One. I had a ball, which I can’t always say about book-related events, and now that I’m looking back (from my virtual sick bed–more on that later), I think I’ve come up with some rules for having a [...]
September 8, 2008
I’m covered
Quite a few years ago now, my nephew Rudy was at a bookstore with his mom (my sister Nell) and he picked up a book and said, “I want this one.” She asked him why, and he said, “I like the cover.” She said, “Ah, but you can’t judge a book by its cover!” and he [...]
September 5, 2008
My new novel’s in stores–I think
Someday I’ll figure out how this publishing stuff works, because I’m always confused. For instance, my official pub date is September 10 but friends have already seen The Smart One and the Pretty One in stores (I haven’t) and I’ve noticed it’s available for order on Amazon. So I guess it’s kind of “out.” Now comes the [...]
September 2, 2008
Margaret, are you grieving?
Warning: this post is neither funny nor cheerful. I’m not in that kind of mood. Please skip if you’re not in the mood to be brought down. Right now we’re dealing with a classic crisis for people of our age group: my husband’s mother has declined a lot, physically and mentally, in the last couple of [...]
