It's 50% official. Last night I signed a contract to write an eclectic guide to eclectic New York City for Cumberland House Publishing, a small extremely eclectic press in Nashville, TN. I'm dropping the contract off with my agent (a friend of mine) later today. Needless to say, I'm pretty gosh tootin' excited about the whole thing. Little old me is going to have a published book out sometime this spring!
Yep, I said this spring. My manuscript is due on Nov. 1, so I'll be bopping around the City for the rest of the summer (when I'm not trying to fix the City's publicly funded child care system or in Chicago, that is) and most of the fall. Quite a bit of the sites have been visited already, as I worked on the proposal and sought a publisher, but there are still numerous places to see. This afternoon, por ejemple, I'll be hitting up the National Museum of Catholic Art and History in East Harlem, as well as watching kids fish in Central Park, and hanging out with free roaming peacocks in the garden of the largest cathedral in the US that may also be the country's longest ongoing construction project.
Hopefully, CUSS readers will vicariously enjoy the journey. Good times ahead!
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Mazel Tov!!!!
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to saying: "My friend, the writer"
Oh hoo-ray! Can't wait to buy a copy and make you autograph it for me!
ReplyDeletecongrats!
ReplyDeleteMy husband and father are both obsessed with the peacocks. One has seen the colorful one and the other the pure white one. It's wild that they just wander the grounds.
ReplyDeleteAND I get to help you upon our return from the beach.
ReplyDeleteAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
ReplyDeleteAHHHAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!
WHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh boy oh boy oh boy!!
ReplyDeleteLet me know if you want me to review it on my super popular (LOLOLOL) blog for you!
Congratulations! It's great. Now the fun part begins.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations. I am so darn tootin proud of you.
ReplyDeletecongrats chica! can't wait to purchase YOUR book!
ReplyDeleteWoooooooohooooooooooo!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHow very, very cool!
YEAH!!
Many congratulations. Even though I have my own personal guides to New York should I ever visit, I will be purchasing this book and placing it on the Shelf of Books I Love. (I will also be sending you my copy for a signiture!)
ReplyDeletecongratulations!
ReplyDeletesame as dd, i've never been to nyc and of course, will be happy to utilize your book on my first trip (whenever that may be).
Oooooo will we be able to purchase an autographed copy from you? I love NY!
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone! Personal autographed copies will be provided to everyone who wants one. I'm so excited about this, and it makes me so happy that you are all interested in it!
ReplyDeleteI can do you one better than an autographed copy, though. I'm glad to accompany visitors to NYC on fun trips around the city if anyone is interested. It will involve laughing and eating things that are not healthy, as well as subway riding.
duuude! congratz! i'll totally amazon it and then maybe i can visit new york again.
ReplyDeletei went once when i was twelve. i took a helicopter ride, went to fao swarz and saw madonna promoting "who's that girl" in times square.
:)h
Congrats, my pumpkin!
ReplyDeleteSteph
Wow! Congratualtions! Once you're a published author, it's only a short step to having a country home AND a city home, and some kind of exotic, weird-looking dog.
ReplyDeleteAnd then I can casually drop your name...
"Oh...my friend Suzanne? The author? We're like this {}".
Ev, are you spying on me? Because my husband, for a variety of reasons, has recently become obsessed with buying a farm in upstate New York. Not that that is going to happen, but it's just funny that you mention it. On the other hand, he hates dogs and has in the past told me that if I ever get one, I will come home to find it stuffed. So probably no weird exotic dogs are in my future, although now I am tempted to remind husband that all good farms have dogs...
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