Hoo, baby: check out that new widget over on the right! Isn’t that sweet? And the fact that it’s there is just astounding to me: I can’t believe my book is available for pre-order. I stumbled across it while I was doing some updating thing on the amazon.com associates’ page, where you have to changes things around just because they get bored and think it would be fun to make you change all your stuff.
And I did it and clicked “OK,” and it took me to the page with my books, and I was all like, “What the hell is that? That’s not mine.”
Turns out it is. It is mine: it’s the cover of my new book. Whoa. This comes as a complete surprise to me. I mean, total surprise. I had no idea—NO IDEA—they had a cover yet.
Yeah.
No clue. I didn’t get the memo.
[You know, just in case you harbor the belief that Writers Are Important People, lean over here and let me burst your bubble for you. While I totally love what I do for a living, I have no illusions about my worth. I’m the last to find out almost everything. Anyone remember the scene in Sex and The City (the series, not the damn silly movie), where Carrie visits a Hollywood studio and some guy walks by and someone asks who he is, and the reply is, “Oh, he’s nobody. He’s just the writer”? ]
It’s pretty damn cool though, isn’t it? And see, I can say that without any ego involved since, you know, I had absolutely nothing to do with it. I can say, “Gee, isn’t that the most fabulous, ultra-cool, groovy cover you’ve ever seen in your whole entire life?” and not even have to try to be modest.
I kind of like that, you know? But I do feel kind of like Rip Van Winkle here, as if I’ve been sleeping and missed some stuff. Makes me wonder what else I’ve missed. . . .
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congrats...i know you are jazzed...poor Carrie...she had a time of it!
Hello Rice, I just read your "Creative Life" book and I want to thank you for passing along so much wonderful wisdom! I found it very helpful and insightful... lots of practical and provocative ideas. It's good to know there are so many different ways to be a successful artist. Thanks again! I look forward to seeing your new book when it comes out. - Curtis
hm-m, no widget showing on my screen. i'll go check it out on Amazon, though. thanks for the heads-up!
Oooh cool!! It comes out 3 days before my birthday. What a great gift for myself-lol!! I can't wait!!!
Cool cover. While I don't consider myself an artist, I do like to make quilts... well, mostly I just think about making quilts and buy the stuff to make them. Perhaps your new book will inspire me to finish a project or two?
When when when will it be available for real???
amazon.com says it'll be out october 21. they seem to know more than i do. color me Clueless.
leaning back trying to read the tiny scrip on the cover. i swear i saw 'making room for making shit'.
per amazon, this is a book about crafting...... "making room in your life for your craft"
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i WISH it said "making room for making shit"--that would make me happy!
all the artists in the book are full-time working artists. sure, they excel at their craft, but: we've got to get past this whole art/craft thing somehow. i hate how they word these blurbs. last time they said i had "compiled" info from artists. "to compose out of materials from other documents," making it sound like i'd cannibalized previous articles. i pleaded with them not to use that word again--one thing i did NOT want people to think was that this would be stuff they'd already seen somewhere else.(it's not; i start from scratch for everything.) you know, like those craft books where they take three or four previously-published books and smush them all together, give them a new title, and send them out there again. that's cheating, as far as i'm concerned.
now Ricë- let's be honest here. If they told you that the cover was ready, and up on Amazon- is it out of the realm of possibility that you might not remember? Just curious.
nope, holly, that wouldn't have happened: i would have immediately showed it to someone--y'all, my husband, some random person.
Yay! Congratulations. I'm looking forward to getting a copy for Christmas (that's a not-so-subtle hint to my husband!)
Psst: the writer may be nobody in the book business, but to the reader, they are the ONLY ONE....
Dusty
dusty_grrl@excite.com
then i guess i need to hang out with readers, huh? oh, wait: that's what i am.
Glad to know that the writers are given just as little consideration as participating collaborators.
Somehow this doesn't seem fair. There SHOULD be a better way, in my not so humble opinion.
i try really hard to make sure it's a positive experience for the contributing artists. they're all working artists, and i hope that the book they're in will be something that leads new people to their work (there are jewelry artists and quilters and mixed media, etc.--so people might buy the book to see the quilts and find themselves entranced by the jewerly, for instance). i make sure they have a bio with a photo and whatever links they want--they write the bios themselves. sure, they don't get paid, but i hope the exposure sort of makes up for it.
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