The Book Is Launched–Am I?
By Lynn Rasmussen in Relationships & Marriage, Writing/Publishing | Comments (2)
I wish I could blog out my first week of the Men Are Easy launch, blow by blow. I’m in a new learning curve, slammed with firsts. First book launch. First book launch trip. First book signing. First licensing agreement. First trip to a Borders where no one knew me to introduce myself and sign books. First television appearance. First disasterous makeup experience. First second television appearance. First book launch trip with husband.
I was on tv this morning. Dick’s (aka Rick) advice at 5:45 a.m., “The most important thing is that you’re loose,” made my lip muscles tighten like a guide wires. He rolled out of bed at 4:50. I’d been up showering and curling eyelashes for 45 minutes. He roamed around the studio, checking out the monitors and equipment, while I jumped around and went to the restroom twice. He was definitely loose.
Kona weather immediately took my hair to friz. On the mainland, the cut is professional but casual. This morning, despite expensive products and a 15-minute blow dry, by the time I got to the car I looked like an aging hippy out of Huelo. It’s a great look if you’re walking out of your bamboo cottage to pick a papaya for breakfast or if you’re wearing hand painted silks and espousing oracles.
Kirk Matthews at KHON 2 Honolulu’s Morning News was a pro. Charming, cute about my book. I wish I could’ve been as loose as I usually am with men. I mean, how is anyone going to believe that I find men easy if I’m all tight? Nerves and self consciousness. At least better than last time. I think. Tevo will tell the brutal truth.
My first tv interview was 5 minutes with Angela Keen at 8 Morning News Tuesday at 6 a.m. The perfect person for my first tv gig. I loved her expressions and her voice and her energy as we talked–I wanted to just sit there a chat for an hour. But it was 5 minutes that felt like 2. They reported to Nanette, my publicist, that I was like a pro, a natural. Right. I saw the tevo. Yuck. I was stiff and my makeup and hair were wrong wrong wrong. But Angela was great.
The book signing deserves its own entry. I’ll get to it this weekend!
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Lynn, that’s really funny. I think that it’s amusing the image that writers have when doing publicity.
I can’t speak authoratively about this, but I have to believe that the majority of writers are actually introverts. It requires a lot of internal reflection to sit in front of a keyboard to express internal thoughts. Then, when the work is launched, the way that the book is publicized requires lots of extroversion … so writers become victims of their own success.
I’ve personally taken the tactic of writing with co-authors, hoping that they’ll be bigger extroverts than me. Unfortunately, in graduate studies, the universities want independent work ….
I once read that you know that you’re a writer when you’re still in your bathrobe in the afternoon. So I must be a writer.
I can do extrovert. I love going to isss conferences and brain science conferences. I don’t mind telling people about Men Are Easy–It’s fun and warms me to hear how they benefit from it.
But all the promotion is aimed toward perpetuating my bathrobe lifestyle. I really just want to write the next book.