Know when you feel seriously stupid?
When you nag the publicity person at your publishing house to get all your books out to this endlessly growing list of reviewers — spacing that like near everything else you do, this isn’t DIY, and she also has her own list, dingbat — and then you get an email from her with this HUGE honking list of places your book has been sent.
And you look at it. As your jaw hits the space bar on your keyboard. You see certain publications, places and names which strike absolute terror into your little heart, and you feel yourself start to hyperventilate as you slowly crawl under your desk, clutching your palm-sweaty pack of smokes as if they were your teddy bear.
Thankfully, you feel LESS stupid than you might because you do NOT send her the email that says nothing but, “Ohmygawd NO: I don’t want all those people seeing the book! I take it back! Go get those books BACK right NOW!”
I swear, it feels infinately less vulnerable to have the whole world see you naked.
Just a few moments of extreme stage fright, brought to you by the dork who writes here.
P.S. To the construction workers on the place behind my house? Entiendo español. I’m usually very rusty in my speaking, but my understanding doesn’t tend to lapse. And just because I can’t think of how to translate, “It is deeply invasive for you to endlessly and loudly yell at me about my tits and my ass, with the charming, accompanying smoochy noises, while I’m trying to find just fifteen minutes of peace by spending time in my garden,” doesn’t mean I don’t understand you.
P.P.S. Longer entries en route, I promise. Been crazy-busy over here lately, and today’s a real doozy.
Mr. Price’s most recent short film just got into SIFF! Whoohoo!
April 26th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Call me a.d.d., but I like the shorter entries….
April 26th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Bah. You already know they’re all gonna love it. It’s just nerves. I’ve already ordered my copy!!
April 26th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Michiko Kakutani?
April 29th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
So where would be the best place for me to purchase one of your wonderful books? I don’t want to give my money to some bad company. I want you to get the most from it! I am in the midwest.
April 29th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
Hi, Heather,
For some two years now, give or take, I’ve been thinking how cool it would be to see you interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show as promotion for the book. Any chance of that?
April 30th, 2007 at 3:10 am
mmmh, too long a text to yell to the workers. But I can set a nice expletive for you, in perfect Spanish. Graphic and polite, I promise.
May 1st, 2007 at 6:34 am
WOO HOO, on all the publication joys (and terrors;-), and an extra ALRIGHT for Mr, Price.
February 4th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
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