monoceros blogsElizabeth mentioned recently that Little, Brown, her publisher, sent 1000 novel excerpts to three Starbucks cafes in Singapore. I'm not sure where exactly Starbucks displays these giveaways or how they promote upcoming books and music, but I suppose if Starbucks is your favorite haunt, and you're in Singapore, look out for it.
Being the biased friend, I was very pleased when I noticed that Elizabeth's book is the top pre-ordered title for the Literature & Fiction category on Amazon.com. The movie rights were sold just last week. Very exciting.
Elizabeth will be doing a reading on the release date - June 14 - at Ann Arbor's downtown Borders store. She'll also read on June 24, Friday, at the Barnes & Noble store in Lincoln Center, New York. I'll have pictures and mini reports on both readings when the dates swing by.
As for my own halting writing career, I'm communicating with an agent, but I'm thinking also about jobs back home. Got to be practical too. Taking up a full-time job will give me less time to write, but it'll allow me to keep buying books and CDs and DVDs, three things (among a slew of others) which fuel my urge to imagine and write.
Posted by Monoceros at May 25, 2005 11:49 PMhow exciting... hope the communication blossoms...
Posted by: tiggie at June 1, 2005 5:10 AMgood luck with your writing career =)
and your friend's book definitely sounds exciting, i'll certainly be looking out for it!
Posted by: a l at June 1, 2005 9:35 PMThanks, you two. =) We'll see how things go.
Yeah, I'm sure it'll be very good, a l. A lot of people mistakenly think it's in the vein of Ann Rice, but it's more in the gothic manner of Bram Stoker. More literary than mass market fiction. Let me know what you think of it when you've read it! I'm tempted to get two copies - one American edition, and one British. The covers are a little different.
Posted by: monoceros at June 2, 2005 8:45 AM