I came home this afternoon to find this in the on my desk, the Grand Central Publishing book catalogue for Spring/Summer 2011. It is pretty.
(My editor's name is Emily.)
And there it is, page 29, right opposite the copy for a book called "Slow Sex: The Art and Craft of the Female Orgasm." Maybe it's a ying and yang kind of thing.
My first thought in leafing through the other hardcover books that are coming out next year? Is that I should have chosen a better "author picture" for my book, rather than one that I took at the last second with my cellphone camera while sitting on the front stoop. However, admittedly, the competition is stiff. Stiff and very attractive.
Hey, Nicholas Sparks, actually quite the looker! Who knew? I admit, I always imagined him as looking like the old man in the movie version of "The Notebook," not quite so much like Nigel Barker from "America's Next Top Model." (Right?)
However, I have one thing in my corner that none of these big names have, and that is this: the first ever published photo credit for one Msr. Cal Walrath. The kid's got the eye! Like a latter-day Richard Avedon, he is! (Or maybe make that Diane Arbus.)
Pre-order on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders, or for your Kindle. Prices appear lowest on Amazon and B&N at the moment, unless you don't care about having a physical copy or are or delicate and prone to paper cuts, in which case obviously you can pre-order the e-book version.
My first thought in leafing through the other hardcover books that are coming out next year? Is that I should have chosen a better "author picture" for my book, rather than one that I took at the last second with my cellphone camera while sitting on the front stoop. However, admittedly, the competition is stiff. Stiff and very attractive.
Hey, Nicholas Sparks, actually quite the looker! Who knew? I admit, I always imagined him as looking like the old man in the movie version of "The Notebook," not quite so much like Nigel Barker from "America's Next Top Model." (Right?)
However, I have one thing in my corner that none of these big names have, and that is this: the first ever published photo credit for one Msr. Cal Walrath. The kid's got the eye! Like a latter-day Richard Avedon, he is! (Or maybe make that Diane Arbus.)
Pre-order on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders, or for your Kindle. Prices appear lowest on Amazon and B&N at the moment, unless you don't care about having a physical copy or are or delicate and prone to paper cuts, in which case obviously you can pre-order the e-book version.