FURIOUSLY HAPPY – Page 9

No Pants Party. You’re invited.

So. My book comes out next week and I’m 50% excited and 70% terrified and 100% not sure how math works. Normally when a book comes out you have a big launch party in a big city and big people come and then I have a big panic attack and everyone wanders around making a bigContinue reading “No Pants Party. You’re invited.”

This isn’t really a post but it’s still really (subjectively) important

Hey! This isn’t today’s post (still working on that) so expect even more typos than normal. It’s just a quick note to say that HOLY SHIT MY BOOK COMES OUT IN A WEEK AND A HALF. And I’m freaked out and terrified and excited and utterly unprepared and you probably are too (unprepared, I mean)Continue reading “This isn’t really a post but it’s still really (subjectively) important”

IT’S HERE. IT’S HERE. IT’S HERE.

Look what just came in the mail, you guys! The real, final copy of my book. It feels so real and heavy and substantial and holy crap, y’all, after years of work and doubt it’s actually done. Well, not done done because the book tour starts in four weeks, but still. And I heard Victor inContinue reading “IT’S HERE. IT’S HERE. IT’S HERE.”

Will a signed copy of my book one day be worth one million dollars? Almost probably.

So, I was asked to sign some collector copies of FURIOUSLY HAPPY for people who wanted a signed book but didn’t want to go to a signing and I said I’d do it, but then I got a draft of the signing page and it said something like, “This limited, signed, 1st edition has been specially bound” and it felt like itContinue reading “Will a signed copy of my book one day be worth one million dollars? Almost probably.”

A love letter to libraries

I just found out that Furiously Happy was chosen as one of the 10 LibraryReads for September. That means that librarians around the country nominated it as one of the top books they can’t wait to share with readers. That nod is one of the most poignant honors I have ever received and I cried when I heard it, although not everyone would understand why.Continue reading “A love letter to libraries”

Where’s Rory? He’s fucking everywhere. (I mean, not literally. Ew.)

An update: A few days ago I wrote a post about how awesome it would be if Rory the raccoon traveled all over the world to see the places most of us might never see and you said, “YES, LET’S MAKE THIS HAPPEN. SEND ME A RORY. NO -FUCK IT. I CAN’T WAIT FOR YOU. I’LLContinue reading “Where’s Rory? He’s fucking everywhere. (I mean, not literally. Ew.)”