Warning: Some Violence and Much Strong Language.HE WROTE: The Clam and The Squid.
Sigh.
In Atlanta airport. Just read the previous blog entry.
Do not attempt this collaborating stuff at home. Do not do without adult supervision (even though we have none). Do not take collaboration unless imbibing large amounts of alcohol beforehand. Serious side-effects could occur, including headaches, muscle cramps. temporary blindness, and long term insanity.
I am currently sending Jenny one word e-mails. Drives her bonkers. Hehe.
I guess I'm supposed to say something of either writing significance or 'insight' into the exciting life of authors. Well, I emailed Jenny that she can get in the Crown Club in airports using her Delta Medallion Card. I think. Not that I'm going to try it. I tend to get kicked out of places. I also tend not to get served. Really. I used to take Rex, big old German Shephert mixed with something, happy, happy dog, down to the outdoor bar in Harbourtown sometimes. And the waitresses would run over and coo at Rex, get him multiple bowls of water, yet somehow never take my order. Rex would be slurping away, happy as a clam, pun intended, and I'd be sitting there waiting and waiting.
Where was I?
Writing. Umm. Something insightful. Thinking here. You know, if you're going to write a memoir it helps to at least get the major facts right. Ok, guess everyone's figured that one out.
Agents. There were several agents at this conference in Tucson. Nice people. And that's the thing: they're people. Not some mythical demon force guarding the gates of publishing. They have their own feelings about things. The lesson I have learned is you want an agent who thinks big and in terms of a career rather than the "sell the next book" agent.
The clam and the squid are apropo of nothing. I just thought this needed a title to balance out Jenny's last post.
10 Comments:
If you are at the Atlanta airport, please describe in detail whatever you got from Ben and Jerrys, and from The Body Shop. Please.
If y ou skipped those places I will have to re-evaluate your god among men status, and withdraw the idea for a tee I submitted.
"The Clam and the Squid"
Is that some kind of sexual simile like tacos and burritos?
Bob & Jenny --
Here's an idea for a viral marketing campaign that I gleaned from someone else. Pick several people who have well-read blogs. Send us ARCs of DLD on the condition that we must have the book read and agree to blog about it right before the release date.
For an advanced look at DLD, I'd beg, err, agree to do that in a heartbeat.
Heeeyyyyy...mary stella's got an idea there. It could work. You might have trouble finding willing vict..er, participants (yeah, that's it), but you might be able to pull it off. I could probably be coerced into something like that.
Oh, I'd absolutely do that, too. But, of course, it would help if I blogged more regularly. Got any good food in it? I do have some readership for my food blog. ;+)
Dogs are known babe magnets, Bob, but you've got to talk to the girls when they come around, not sit back and let them fondle your dog. Er, Rex, the wonder dog. Erm, still sounds way to innuendo-ish.
Bob, Forget about being a contender - that's for big, old has beens. From what I've been reading in the comments, you are now "The Man". Must have been a stroke of genius on your part when you decided to write a book with Jenny! The writing chemistry between the two of you in your blogs is Great! I can't wait to read "Don't Look Down". Will y'all have it at the South Carolina Book Festival? I would drive up from AL just to get an early copy. Just so you'll know next time, women will come onto the dog, so that the dog's owner will notice them...
Excuse my ignorance, but I didn't know that marketing a book is the author's responsibility. After all, he/she did the hardest part-- writing it. Shouldn't the publisher take on the task of getting people to buy it?
P.S. Yes, dogs tend to attract women but puppies leave us weak in the knees and totally at your mercy.
Hey, if we all start reading each other's blogs regularly, we can qualify as well-read bloggers entitled to ARCs!
---the Mole, thinking, always thinking....
Hey, I'll put a JPG of your book on my blog and ask the readers to click for the darn coupon if you want. Just send me one of those clams. And the ARC.
I know the collaboration is working, Bob, because you're worried about the color of your shoes and Jenny's calling you a god among men.
I'm pretty much into dogs and wouldn't notice the dog owner if my life depended upon it, so, yeah, I'd be one of the people playing with the dog and being completely oblivious to you. Sorry.
Of course, if I were single, maybe things would be different...
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