I've received my first published author perk (other than getting to tell everyone about it, of course. Especially Lake Crystal folk) today. In the midst of an home decorating discussion that bordered on hostage negotiation intensity levels, I discovered a package wedged between our front door and the screen door. Oh happy day, it was a package of novels from my new editor at St. Martin's Press, free samples of a few books he's worked on before. They are as follows: James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips (Picador). Sayonara Bar by Susan Barker (St. Martin's Griffin). The Salon by Nick Bertozzi (St. Martin's Griffin). The first is a biography of a famous hard boiled sci-fi writer who everyone thought was a man but turned out to be a woman named Alice Sheldon, the second is a novel set in Osaka, Japan, and the third is this really cool graphic novel that's a mix of art history and murder mystery.
Okay. Now I've got some reading to do...
PS. We've put up the hammock!!! Thanks, Missy et her parents!
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About Me
- David Oppegaard
- St. Paul, Minnesota
- I am the author of And the Hills Opened Up, The Suicide Collectors, and Wormwood, Nevada.
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4 comments:
Oh the joy of shared living spaces! It is an eternal carousel of compromise, but so worth it for the companionship.
Soon we will be reading YOUR book(s).
Glad to hear you are settling in! And my bad joke about hookahs/hookers didn't seem to offend you, either! (or to be very funny - I thought it was HILARIOUS, BTW).
When is the best time to visit Boise? I'm all curious now!
What would it take to offend Dave?
Boise is just Boise being Boise, man. They have a famous jazz festival sometime in the summer, I know. Just being here makes me smile for some reason.
Yeah. It's hard to offend me. Maybe if you attack Stephen King or something.
Yeah. Stephen King is just a pulp fiction hack anyway. :)
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