Category: One for Sorrow
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Fooling Around
My friend Brooke is helping me do a lot of the local promotion and publicity for my book. The girl knows virtually everyone you need to know around this place to get things noticed, and so my publicist at Bantam sent her a box of books the other week to help when getting in touch…
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Interview Preview
I’m being interviewed over at the Swivet on August 28th, when the book comes out, by LaGringa. But she’s posted a preview of the interview today. She’s going to be giving away copies of One for Sorrow, too, so I’ll make sure to remind you all to go over there and get one when the…
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Bookmarks!
My friend Steven Andrew is a graphic design genius. I heart so many of the things he does. Like his Subpopular.com that he started up, which is a sort of myspace for the local Youngstown arts and entertainment scene. And his own myspace page, which he redesigned because he’s an online design wiz kid like…
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Days go by
Ugh, this is sort of agonizing, waiting waiting waiting for my book to come out. For months, even after all the work with Bantam was done for putting it together, it was this distant thing in my mind. But now its presence just keeps looming nearer and nearer. Rick Bowes told me that every writer…
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Long and narrow like a coffin
Midori Snyder over at the Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts has written a review of One for Sorrow: While reading One for Sorrow, Christopher Barzak’s remarkable debut novel, I was reminded of a quote from Danish author, Tove Ditlivson: “Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and we do not get out of it…
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Something Right
This is the kind of review that makes me feel like I did something right.
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Morning
Found this in my email from my friend Graham this morning: and the day started off with great cheer. It’s a fun internet program, like those church signs you can write whatever on. Nonetheless, I think it fits nicely in the Hollywood hills.
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More Happy Things
First: The finished copy of the book came today! Me acting like a grade school boy with his spelling bee award or something to that effect. And second: The Endicott Studio’s Journal of the Mythic Arts has its Summer YA issue live now. They’ve got fantastic stories, poetry, art and essays over there, so go…
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Happy Things
1. One of the things I love lately is that when you do a search on “Christopher Barzak” at Amazon.com, the number two listing is Rufus Wainwright’s new album “Release the Stars”. This makes me ridiculously happy for some reason that, as Amazon says, customers who have pre-ordered my novel have gone on to buy…
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Hello, Goodbye
Back from New York City, which was wonderful as usual. So many things seen and done and eaten and heard, etc. Now I’m doing laundry and getting ready to pack, because starting tomorrow I’ll be in Cleveland for the next three days teaching at the Imagination Writing Workshop. I attended Imagination when I was 19…