Alison Pace

CITY DOG Has a Facebook Page

I got some copies of the actual, finished, real-live, this-is-what's-going-out-into-the-world version of CITY DOG today.  This is the first time I've seen them, and they look fantastic.  Really, really great.  It's always so exciting the first time I see a finished book. And as I am as yet unawares of any typos or errors in the book, at this point it's just all pure publishing happiness.  I totally wanted to photograph Carlie in the (non-working) fireplace with all the books fanned out around her, but did not quite get that far on the to-do list today.

Instead, I made a Facebook page for CITY DOG.  This is where you can add yourself as a fan of the book, and a little picture of it will appear on your profile page, and then two of your friends will see it and become fans, too, and then two of their friends will become fans, and so on, and so on, and so on, until all the world is a just one big Faberge Organics shampoo ad from the 70s, only instead of all the Heather Locklears, it'll be all Carlies.

Can you imagine?  Seriously, join up!

Blane's Not a Name

Last night, after driving through two hours of treacherous rainstorm with only an Air Supply CD to listen to, I got home just in the nick of time to watch the season premiere of Madmen. I'm a fan of Madmen, but I thought the show was a little blah. 

I think my favorite part of the TV-watching last night was the commercial played right after the “scenes from next week” part.  It was a BMW commercial that I would have said was new, but a little research reveals it’s from 2007.  It shows a bunch of images of BMW’s, as one would expect, and one of them is the scene from Pretty in Pink where Andrew McCarthy’s Blane kisses Molly Ringwald’s Andie in front of his car with the headlights on.  Of all the misunderstood John Hughes’ heroes, anyone Andrew McCarthy ever played was the best.  Of all the guys Molly Ringwald ever wound up with right before the credits rolled, Blane, definitely my favorite.  Also, James Spader in this movie:  best teenage villain ever. 

Emails to publicist today:  only 2!

Tell Everyone!

I saw a really great movie last night: Tell No One, a French film based on the (American) novel by Harlan Coben. I didn't know much about the movie going into it, had only heard that it was outstanding, and it 100% was. The script was terrific, fantastic acting (loved the main character), and there was really good music in the background. So suspenseful and complicated. Subtitles, but since it's not what one would call a dialogue movie, it didn't detract at all. It's the type of movie you leave and want to tell everyone to see.

I've never read a book by Harlan Coben (though I have always really liked the name Harlan, and I thought he seemed really gracious and personable when I saw him on the Today show a few years back), now I think I definitely will.   

Emails sent to publicist today: 3 (not terrible)

Okay, Go

I went for a run this morning and got caught in the rain, which was actually kind of nice.  Even better was that right as it started to rain, right as I thought, oh, rain, my iPod, set on shuffle, started to play the OK GO song, "Let It Rain."  I like it when things like that happen.  Also, I'm trying to get back into the swing of blogging more frequently like in olden times.  Baby steps.

CITY DOG comes out in about six weeks.  How did it get to be six weeks until the end of summer?  Am I somehow counting wrong?  At this point it is pretty much a minute-to-minute struggle to not obsessive-compulsively email my publicist with inquiries as to any review action that may be being drummed up.  I was mentioning this interest I had in not getting all OCD about my book release to a friend of mine, and she suggested I repeat "No need to get OCD," again and again.  This: funny, as isn't the act of repeating something over and over again kind of OCD in and of itself?  There's an essay out there that I read once and loved, something about the five (six?) nervous breakdowns a writer has over the course of writing and publishing a book.  Free CITY DOG bookmark to anyone who can direct me to it.  Free CITY DOG book to anyone who goes that extra mile and actually emails me the essay.

And my computer is in the death throes, which is getting really, really annoying for me.

Momtrends

Thanks to the blog Momtrends for recommending CITY DOG.

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