Summer Plans
I thought I should mention that I plan on going to the BlogHer conference in San Francisco this July. It's on the same weekend as the yoga workshop I really wanted to go to again, but since I bailed on the conference last year I felt like I should maybe start alternating -- one year I'll spend that weekend being a limber, hiking vegan, and the next year I'll spend it shopping, chatting, and eating my weight in dim sum.
So, barring another death in the family, I will be there. I'm trying to organize a reading night where people can get up and read their favorite posts and then have lots of cocktails to help them calm down. It's not on the schedule yet but we're working that out and when we do we'll have an open call for submissions.
Lastly, I put another image and link in my sidebar, it's for Rita Arens's anthology "Sleep is for the Weak," which you can order from giant online retailers (here and here), or from local independent booksellers (here). It features lots of bloggers who are also parents, including me. The cover art is adorable! I'm told it makes an excellent baby shower gift. There will be a launch party for the book at BlogHer, and lots of events all over the country and at some point in September I will be at a book event down in L.A. with some of the other folks in the book so stay tuned. I know I've said I feel comfortable speaking in public but the idea of doing a book signing is making me hyperventilate four months in advance. What's the difference? The difference is that one thing doesn't scare the shit out of me and the other one does. /sales pitch.
So, barring another death in the family, I will be there. I'm trying to organize a reading night where people can get up and read their favorite posts and then have lots of cocktails to help them calm down. It's not on the schedule yet but we're working that out and when we do we'll have an open call for submissions.
Lastly, I put another image and link in my sidebar, it's for Rita Arens's anthology "Sleep is for the Weak," which you can order from giant online retailers (here and here), or from local independent booksellers (here). It features lots of bloggers who are also parents, including me. The cover art is adorable! I'm told it makes an excellent baby shower gift. There will be a launch party for the book at BlogHer, and lots of events all over the country and at some point in September I will be at a book event down in L.A. with some of the other folks in the book so stay tuned. I know I've said I feel comfortable speaking in public but the idea of doing a book signing is making me hyperventilate four months in advance. What's the difference? The difference is that one thing doesn't scare the shit out of me and the other one does. /sales pitch.
18 Comments:
I know how it pains you, Eden, and that's why we will be there to bring you liquid courage before the signing. hee hee
yahoo for you. I wanna do a reading! I am excited for Blogher! Woo woo. Can we slow dance there?
Look forward to seeing you again this year!
Yay! Glad you'll be there. As for the book, pitch away! I'm really looking forward to it.
i love all of these blogger-edited essay books coming out. i just read your piece in "things i learned about my father" and loved it. i would love a book filled with stories/memories just like the one you wrote. congratulations.
Hooray!!! - I think you're going to have to HOST book club with this one.
Now you're scared.
Thanks, guys! Alison, I'll need your pozole recipe.
"bloggers who are also parents"
Thank you.
Egads, why does the baby have to be due the week before BlogHer? Why?
Dang.
I'm playing the lottery for plane fare.
Hope to be there!
I'm hoping to attend one eventually.
so glad you're going to be joining the unlimber this year. We missed you in Chicago!
I can't go to BlogHer this year as we have already spent $3,000 on tickets for the Mile High Music Festival.
But the book is preordered at Amazon, check. Big congrats!
I'm not able to go to BlogHer this year but I do live in LA! Perhaps I'll sneak you a flask at your book signing.
Looking forward to meeting you. If it's before 4:00 pm I might even be sober.
Oh who are we kidding?
have a great time at blogher - bloghim is next? also, don't freak about sales pitch'n; it's just like taking your clothes off in front of people in public, the more you do it, the more comfortable it becomes (until they lock you up)
Fantastic! I'm looking forward to hearing more about your book.
just the thought of getting in my car and DRIVING into l.a. makes me hyperventilate, so i can only imagine how you must feel, having to do something besides drink once you get there. hey, drink on the way - everyone does that here. a nice tequila shot goes really well with gridlock and phone sex.
so, being fussy AND busy at a BOOK SIGNING in los angeles.
how many people get to say THAT?
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