Read your Sunday paper
Really, I mean other than meeting Gene Hackman in FOUR SHORT SLEEPS, Is there any greater joy than a Sunday morning with the dining room table strewn with newspapers? Here in our unairconditioned and cranky-when-it-is-hot home, warm rosemary bagels from the Bruegger’s on Merrimon Avenue, some nice French press coffee–black, of course, and strong–and no fewer than five newspapers: Asheville Citizen-Times, New York Times, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Washington Post, and Charlotte Observer. What I wouldn’t do for the LA Times, but we can’t find it here on Sunday mornings.
And if you are like us, sitting there reading the paper in your fluffy jammies or sweat pants and favorite Snoopy shirt, I need your help. As simple as it seems, I need you to turn to the book review, style, or whatever section covers new books and authors in your neck of the woods, find the person’s name my publisher should add to their "review book" list, and leave a comment or send an email with that info. Really. You, the very one. Not anyone else, no town too small. Truly.
In addition to your local paper, if there are radio shows they should target, or any other media outlets you feel might cover LIFE IS A VERB when it comes out in SEVENTY-TWO DAYS (but who’s counting, really?), please send them along. Or if you are a blogger and haven’t already signed up to be part of the blog tour for the book in September and would like to participate, let me know.
It’s possible I might have a copy of the book in my hands this week. I didn’t feel this way about my first two books. This one, I deeply love.
