« So Then I Became A Talking Head | Home | Things I Learned Today »
A Shameless Plug to Pre-Order My Book on Amazon.com
By Nick | December 3, 2009
So the mass-market edition of the coffee-table book I co-authored, titled Playboy: The Book of Cigars and branded with the instantly recognizable Playboy Rabbit, will be published on June 1, 2010. I actually wrote my part of the massive tome January-March 2009; unlike magazines, where you can see the editor-mangled results of your hard-earned labor within weeks, and unlike Web sites, where your article is often posted within minutes, a book can take months and months to reach stores. The waiting part of it drives me a little nuts, but I’ve always been the sorta-impatient sort.
But here it is, The Thing Itself, available for pre-order on Amazon.com (wink, wink, nudge, nudge). I also have 25-or-so comp copies stacked in cardboard boxes in my apartment; which means that, if you know me personally and you’re interested in depriving me of the royalty-payment equivalent of a Sprite from the office vending machine, you could always just ask me for a copy. If you’re lucky, I might even sign it.
In the meantime, I just finished the draft of a novel after nine months of stop-and-go writing. I’m hopeful that with judicious editing (re: I burn half of it), I can have the manuscript in tense, bloody, melodramatic shape by the end of the year.
Speaking of “melodramatic”… (and a little terrible.)
Topics: Uncategorized |