Here’s a quick update of what I have been doing this weekend in the order of occurrence.
1. Yelled at a DVD
I watched the movie Adam Friday night. It was a sort of Asperger love story. In general it was a good movie. My yelling didn’t come until the very end.
Rose Byrne plays Beth the love interest of Aspergian title character played by Hugh Dancy. Beth is a teacher who dreams of being a published children’s book author. So far so good. At one point she tells Adam about her hope of someday winning a Newbery award. I was impressed that the moviemakers at least had some familiarity with children’s publishing.
That all fell apart at the end when we finally got to see the book that Beth had been working on in published form. The problem? It was a picture book, and as anyone familiar with children’s books and their awards knows, picture books win Caldecott awards not Newbery awards, thus my yelling.
2. Met author Josh Berk
Debut author Josh Berk was in town at the Clinton Book Shop signing copies of his novel, The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin. Josh let me in on a little secret, his dad has proved to be a very helpful amateur publicist. I had gone down to the store with my parents, and on the walk down my father was talking about his plan to get everyone he knows to buy 10 copies of my book when it comes out. So, my dad and Josh’s dad had the chance to talk some shop, and hopefully Dad picked up a few pointers.
3. Made some website updates
It started out as just a few quick updates on my website. I wanted to add a little to my about me page and clean up my contact page because the formatting was weird on there. I succeeded in making the formatting worse, fought with it for at least an hour, and then ended up redoing the entire contact page with vaguely appropriate photos. Since this all took far longer than I anticipated that cleaning project I began this morning will have to wait for a rainy day. Well, another rainy day.
What did you do this weekend?
My Books
Awesome about Josh Berk.
I’ve never yelled at a movie before. I get emotional, but I keep it inside.
Website updates take forever. I’ll say to myself, “I’ll tweak this a little bit,” and before I know it I’ve been fixing my website for a few hours.
.-= Medeia Sharif´s last blog ..Welcome =-.
I’ve yelled at a movie before, several in fact. As for what I did this weekend, I finished writing my book! Yay!
.-= Heather´s last blog ..Review of Still Sucks To Be Me =-.
Medeia: You have far more self control then I do. I’ve learned that there is no such thing as simple tweaking when it comes to website updates.
Heather: Yay!!!!! That’s awesome!