Share your weirdest public transportation story and win a copy of Burnout!
There is a reason I’m doing the Running Man in my den (and not just because it feels good) and that’s because BURNOUT pubs today!
And to celebrate, I want to give you a copy. And YOU! That’s right, I’m giving away two copies of Burnout today and next week I’m probably going to give away two more. Because I like you.
So, just answer the question below on the blog or on Facebook or on Twitter #weirdtransit and I’ll randomly select two winners and post back the following day.
Nan, the main character in Burnout, wakes up on the L train with absolutely no memory of the last eighteen hours. What’s the weirdest thing ever to happen to you on public transportation?
*Here’s who can enter: Anyone! Seriously! Even if your last name is Vrettos, or if we just met coffee, or if we’ve written together, or worked together or I changed your diaper, or you changed mine, or if we drove cross-country together, sang Down By the Banks of the Hanky Panky together, or argued over Donnie vs. Jordan vs. Joey.
xoxo
AMV
New book, new blog, new (lack of day) job!
Welcome! Come in, come in!
I’m so happy to be breaking a bottle of champagne on the bow (stern?) of this new blog with a post chock-full of news. Then I can go back to blogging about donuts and True Blood.
1. My new thriller BURNOUT comes out tomorrow and I am so stoked to be part of a multi-book launch party at Books of Wonder this Thursday, September 15th.
I mean, for Pete’s sake, check out the rest of the line-up:
DAVID LEVITHAN and JONATHAN FARMER: Every You, Every Me
COE BOOTH: Bronxwood
SARAH WEEKS Pie
SUZANNE LAFLEUR Eight Keys
[Links for these are coming, I promise! I'm just writing this while the baby is napping, so time is a-ticking]
That’s my main character, Nan, on the cover. She wakes up on the L train the day after Halloween and can’t remember a dang thing about the last 24 hours, least of all why she’s wearing a too-small Halloween costume, skeleton face paint, and a freshly shaved head. Here’s an excerpt. You’ll have a chance to win a copy tomorrow!
2. I am totally in love with this new blog/website that the ever-amazing Denise Biondo designed for me. She designed the website for my first book, and I’ve been a huge fan ever since.
3. After years of my fellow writers, readers, moms, book store employees, family, and random people who didn’t really ask hearing me lament the fact that I couldn’t be home with my kids, writing books —- Guess what? I’m home with my kids! Writing books! I spent ten wonderful years at Scholastic, and miss the people so very much already, but I am so grateful to have this opportunity to be with my kids and with my writing work.
And speaking of writing work, I’m off to tap tap tap away.
xoxo
AMV
Once Upon a Bookcase guest post!
I’m over at Once Upon a Bookcase this week, with a guest post about writing SKIN, and how sometimes characters barge their way into books and won’t leave.
And, on a totally unrelated note, does it bum anyone else out that everything good on TV happens on Sunday night? Mad Men, True Blood, Entourage. What about the rest of the week? A DVR of Sunday night’s goodies can only last so long!
So maybe it’s time to Netflix some new shows? We did The Wire last summer. What other shows should we watch from the beginning?
xoxo
AMV
Still basking in the glow of lobster rolls and steamers
Wait, can you bask in the glow of a lobster roll? That makes sense, right? A little bit? Maybe if it were radioactive. Or on fire. Or, in this case, glowing with deliciousness.
We were on vacation last week, up in New Hampshire (crickets, green green grass, cold watermelon, tiny frogs, and a visit to the ‘Swap Shack’ at the town dump) and Maine (lobster rolls, shell collecting, steamers, more green green grass, and sand castles). I had so much great hang-out time with my folks, got to see my grampy and my grandma, cousins, and aunts. It was so clean, and quiet, and peaceful. And then we came back to Brooklyn, and something that was not an animal had taken a poop on the subway platform. I’m not easily skeeved out. I’ve seen lots of things here, but the pile doo doo on the subway platform was almost enough to send us packing back to the land of cricket songs and lobster rolls.
It’s a good thing we love Brooklyn but man oh man is our love being tested.
I’m happy to report that I finished the next draft of the fetchingly titled UNTITLED NYC MYSTERY, but now I am in that nether-world where I’m waiting for the editorial letter, half missing the world of the story, and half not ever wanting to see it again.
And now I MUST go drink some lemonade before I completely evaporate.
xoxo
AMV
Will Grayson/Will Grayons/Gigi Lane?! Monday night at Borders!
Guess what?!
This is even BETTER than ice cream — I’m opening for David Levithan and John Green Monday night at Borders!
They’ll be reading from the amazing Will Grayson, Will Grayson and I’ll be trying not to pee from nervousness. Oh, and also I’ll be reading from the Exile of Gigi Lane.
Kind of freaking out here,
XOXO
AMV
Details:
Monday, April 12th
7PM (they recommend you come early)
Borders
461 Park Avenue
The Exile of Gigi Lane is out today!
It’s out, it’s out, it’s out!! In actual bookstores, like all those other real books!
And if you live in New York, please come to the book launch party at 7:30PM tonight at Word bookstore in Greenpoint! There will be cupcakes, and giveaways, and general happiness.
xoxo
AMV
