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To fill chairs at my Barnes & Noble event on the 15th (this coming Wednesday!). Please come if you can, and bring an extra butt or two–it would mean a lot to me and the book.

And while of course I want your butt (and I’m sure I’m not alone!) I need to see your smiling face out in the crowd.

September 15 (this Wed!)

Barnes & Noble TriBeCa

97 Warren Street, NYC

7 PM

We’re going out after for a drink or 14, so it’ll be loads of fun.

Photo by Johnny A 2nd CC

Thanks!

It’s really hard to leave me speechless, but for once in my 43 years, I’ve got nothing to say but THANKS to all of you wonderful readers who went out and bought MY FORMERLY HOT LIFE and helped it make the list.

My incredible editor Marnie–that’s her holding the Formerly Wild sign in the book trailer–told me it’s #32, and although she’s never lied to me before, naturally I had to tell her to SHUT UP and STOP LYING because how could she not be lying? But she wasn’t.

So thanks, and please continue to spread the word, so that it inches up the list. In fact, if you tweet, please tweet this post or put it up on Facebook or tell two friends and ask them to tell two friends, and so on and so on and so on…it’s the Faberge Organics Shampoo technique of selling books, and I’m thinking it works.

Much love.

This book reviewer on Good Morning San Diego recommends MFHL for anyone over 35. Kinda like a mammogram, except funnier. It’s the last book she reviews–see it on the bottom of the pile?–toward the end of the clip.

When we last left our heroine (almost wrote heroin…gives you a sense of my stress level–OMG, Mom, JOKE!) she was slutting herself out in every imaginable way to get the word out about her book. Except the most obvious way, not least of all because no one has asked her to. (Mom, really, another joke–where’s your sense of humor?)

Stephanie, a.k.a., Gigantic Book Whore, has written dozens of guest blog posts, cross promoted her blog, tweeted, Facebooked, and even made up tank tops to hand out to nice people who show enthusiasm for her book.

In the last week, she has done the Today Show, People magazine, local TV, The Gayle King and Martha Stewart radio shows, Joy Behar (although sadly she was on vacation), a dozen radio spots, been in the New York Times and has been reviewed up the wazoo by bloggers and Newsweek.com. (For links to these, click HERE and poke around a bit.) (more…)

(This was written for Powell’s, the Oregon-based bookseller.)

“There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.”

I first read Great Expectations back in ninth grade or so, and while I don’t remember exactly, it’s safe to say that the above lines went over my head — whoosh! — along with pretty much anything else that didn’t have to do with boys, Rick Springfield, boys, and ways to make my hair bigger. It was 1981, more than a century after the book was published.

Now it’s 2010 and I’m sitting here having a first-time author fantasy: Charles Dickens and I are chilling in some divey Victorian pub, throwing back a few, and bonding over this very topic. (I’ve worked out the whole time/space continuum thing and have paid him a visit. It’s my fantasy. Go with me on this.)

Dickens, naturally, finds me riveting, and, not for nothing, my hair is perfect. (more…)

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I couldn’t have been more lucky with these–Meredith and then later Kathie Lee and Hoda really got the book and how it’s a conversation starter. In case you missed the spots, you can see them HERE. (Meredith comes first and then it goes into the second segment.)

Much has been written about how the US is being outpaced by China and India when it comes to graduating engineers who will lead the world in important scientific and technological breakthroughs. Naturally, the President is concerned, as are legislators who predict that because we’re net importers of technology and not taking science and math education seriously enough, that our kiddies will have a lower standard of living than us and we’ll be forever dependent on foreign oil for energy.

Blah blah blah. All true.

But more to the point, who will make more and better makeup for the nation’s Formerlies, an increasingly pressing concern with each passing day? That’s what I want to know. Now that we (and by we, I mean I) need more and more makeup to look like we once did when we weren’t wearing any makeup, this issue is one that I feel I must take a stand on.

I am standing as I write this. It’s not so comfortable. I’m going to sit. But I still mean it.

Hopefully the above video for My Formerly Hot Life (40 days until it’s released!) will inspire action on the part of our nation’s leaders, who will better fund science education in our schools, and incentivize our children to seize the helm of nanoparticle technology research and uncover new and innovative ways in which to restore collagen elasticity to the faces of Formerlies everywhere, not to mention come up with cool new colors that bring out one’s eyes, drawing attention away from one’s nasal labial folds.

Are you with me? If so, please post and forward the video.

For some reason I forgot to post this! Feel free to forward, post on Facebook or anywhere except the porn sites. Oh, wait…porn lovers buy books too. OK, then.

It doesn’t normally look this way because I normally hold it in! I have spent my entire life holding it in, but for you, I let it all out. No pointing and laughing.

I will say that this was just after lunch. First thing in the a.m., I don’t look quite this pregs.

Please forward and embed and go nuts if you like it.