Friday, November 6, 2009

I Have No Clothes (But I Have a Contract!)

I find myself in a strange liminal space.

My book is edited, copy edited and has been handed over to the incredible Penguin sales juggernaut.

The cover shoot just happened and I'm thrilled: amazing photographer, perfect concept - but I won't see results for another couple of weeks.

My web site is about to go live - but not quite yet.
I hesitate to ask the faceless man how it's going (he scares me).

In some ways I feel like my book just vanished. That I have all this excitement but no physical manifestation as yet of the book itself to help me believe. It's floating out there in New York *waves, hello New York!* with amazing people, but sometimes I blink and worry what if none of this has actually happened? Thank the stars I get to keep a copy of my contract.

But maybe the strange sensations of a world out of place isn't the result of the in-between place of publishing I'm living in. Maybe I'm just still in shock from seeing this:
No, you're not wrong - it is, indeed, Twilight Barbie.

And WOW in the space of writing this post I gained two more followers. Welcome!!!

6 comments:

  1. So are you disturbed by the Dough Boy, too? I always have been. But now I think I'll let myself have a moment of argh about Twilight Barbie.
    Congratulations on the movement behind the scenes. Can't wait until it's all on stage.

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  2. The Twilight Barbies are scaring me.

    But I'm so happy about how well your book is doing!

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  3. ALERT: I don't know if you are going to post today, Saturday, so I'm sticking this here and hoping you see it. You must check out Google search today. You will love it!

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  4. Eeeep! Oscar!!! Thanks Tricia. That is awesome :)

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  5. Totally Twilight Barbie. Poor Kristen Stewart got the raw end of that deal-- the Edward and Jacob dolls actually look like they're TRYING to appear true to the actors, but Bella is just Barbie's brown haired friend. (What was her name? Theresa?)

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