Crazy book nut! Last fall I wrote a little first-person piece on my obsession with book signings. It ran today on the back page of Publishers Weekly in the magazine's Soapbox Column. I've been waiting all my life for a soapbox to stand on!
I hope Paul Ingram over at Prairie Lights doesn't mind the shout out. I really do love that guy. The editor at PW cut a lot of good stuff for space, including the part where I wrote of Paul as being like a Mexican jumping bean.
2 comments:
Favorite bit:
Truly nothing ever comes of these meetings in the way of a personal connection—except for one flirty exchange I had with Jonathan Safran Foer at Politics and Prose in D.C.
JSF: “Wow, I really like your sweater.”
Me, in a tight green sweater: “Gee, thanks. I really love your books!”
Sweet! An admirable devotion given attention in the appropriate market, I enjoyed the piece.
You should post the edited excerpts or at least let me see :)
Congrats,
Cliff
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