Some Public Service Announcements
Monday, February 8, 2010
1. Who do we love? Kevin Sampsell. Who else do we love? WORD bookstore. What do we love even more? KEVIN SAMPSELL READING AT WORD BOOKSTORE. How about that!
2. The Brown Bookshelf has a super-awesome project going this month called 28 Days Later, spotlighting twenty-eight YA, MG and picture book authors of color. There are great interviews and lots of book recommendations. If anyone knows of a similar project for the grownups please let us know.
3. We have been listening to a lot of Bon Jovi lately. Like, A LOT (what, and YOU never do anything cheesy? SHUT UP). So if you get a form rejection reading REJECTIONIST LIVES FOR THE FIGHT CAUSE THAT'S ALL SHE'S GOT or possibly SHOT THROUGH THE HEART AND YOU'RE TOO LATE YOU GIVE QUERIES A BAD NAME, it's from us.
4. Author-friend/fiancé(?) Ink has PUBLISHED AN INFANT HAD A BABY why don't you go and CONGRATULATE HIM. Congratulations, Author-friend Ink!
5. Colleen Mondor has a great article at Bookslut on whitewashing in publishing.
6. NO REALLY, you got a PROBLEM with BON JOVI we can TAKE THIS OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW, PEOPLE. Someday maybe when our mom isn't reading we will tell you about the time we got into a barfight in Iowa over a Joy Division song.
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Take my hand, and we'll make it, I swear.
Well, how about:
YOUR QUERY'S LIKE BAAAAAD MEDICINE.
Better than White Lion, I always say.
Doesn't matter where you go
Doesn't matter who you query
If it's a house in NYC
Or just a mile from Lake Erie
Many, many, many years ago, I stayed in a hotel in Cleveland during a SANE/Freeze convention that was simultaneously being stayed at by Bon Jovi.
/lol "published an infant"
It's remarkable how much BIDNING GLUE the INFANT required. And fitting the DUST JACKET... yeesh.
And it's okay. I listened to VANILLA ICE. And SHAVED LINES IN MY HAIR despite being white and suburban and wearing dorky glasses because that would make listening to PUBLIC ENEMY much BETTER even though I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY WERE SAYING.
One more thing...
Happy 500 followers! ;)
Love, love, love Jon Bon Jovi!
First date with my husband we listened to him most of the night.
And we watched the latest documentary and found out not only is he FINE and Talented but he is intelligent as well. Which is like sprinkles on the cupcake of his awesomeness.
And 'Livin' On A Prayer' just came on the radio. Freaky.
Ink, I am now humming "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" in your honor.
Stop, collaborate and listen...
Published an infant! I love it! Congratulations, Ink! (And my condolences on the impending loss of your sleep patterns, sanity and peace of mind.)
Y'all know you can't just listen to Bon Jovi! You have to sing along! LOUD!
My Jon Bovi moment: Saw him at a party in South Beach. Stood near him for like 10 minutes. We were too cool to say hi, natch. Read it and WEEP, Le R!
I have tickets for this summer's Edmonton performance!
Also, my very first concert was the Slippery When Wet tour when I was 13.
That's it. I'm firing up Rock Band and doing Wanted Dead or Alive like twenty times in a row, right now. If only I had some stuffy neighbors to annoy... oh, wait. I do. :-)
Go on, tell us the bar fight story. I promise my (73 yr old) Mom isn't looking
I was in the Bon Jovi fan club in high school -- we'll leave it at that. Just saw him in Denver last year and he still rocks!
Congrats Ink!!!
Oh lord, Ink, you are CRACKING MY SHIT UP today.
Have I mentioned how much it would rock my day to get a Bon Jovi-themed query rejection? That would be up there with the William Carlos Williams rejection...
I'm totally going to see them at Giants Stadium at the end of May... they still put on a kickass show!
Is it the music or the snakeskin spandex britches?
Be honest.
Totally the music, we already have the pants.
When you're brought into this world/They say you're born in sin/Well at least they gave me something/I didn't have to steal or have to win.....shot dowwwwnnnnn in a blaze of glorrryyyyyyyy
I totally scored a 99 on RockBand singing Wanted Dead Or Alive. "Cause I'm cowboy, On the steel horse I ride..." Aaah, you know the rest.
Are you telling me not everyone adores Bon Jovi? Really? Don't believe it for a second! I'll just turn up his section on my iTunes so they can all listen in :)
PS - congrats to Ink - awesome!!!
Please, for the love of all that's holy, start adding hair band riffs to query rejections.
It would make my day, while simultaneously hurting me a little, which is very rock n' roll.
I'm curious about the bar fight over the Joy Division song. If you tell me about that then I'll tell you about the bar fight I had in Iowa over Noam Chomsky....a little preview: it included a 40-year old communist-anarchist dishwasher named Ajax.
This is funny because I literally was once in a bar fight in Illinois over The Knack.
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