Thursday, March 08, 2007

Celebration time, at last

Today I got the news that my first book is going to be published! That's the one I've been working on for the past five years, folks. And it's a very good publisher and the advance is more than enough for the new surfboard I've had my eye on.

Oh come on, I hear you saying. What's the big deal? Lots of surfers write books. Why, there's...

I'm waiting...

I don't know any surfer who even reads books.

OK, actually there is one surfer I know of who wrote a book. It's a book about surfing, but it still counts. It's an intelligent book by a guy who works as a journalist, proving that some surfers can not only spell, but think. I recommend you read it: West of Jesus by Stephen Kotler.

And I recommend you read my book when it comes out in bookstores in July of 2008. You won't find a word about surfng in it.

Here's the beginning of his:

"In The White Album, Joan Didion wrote, 'We tell ourselves stories in order to live,' and then proceeded to tell a story about a time in her life when the stories she told herself began to fail. Which may be how things go for many of us, and certainly it was for me. In the fall of 2003, at a time when I was making my living as a journalist; at a time when the president of the United States comfortably dismissed the idea of Darwinian evolution in favor of a more economic, six-day approach; at a time when certain members of Congress were trying to remake a democracy in their own image; at a time when I was recovering from a long and nagging illness; when many of the people around me began getting married, having children, moving away, or on, or staying exactly where they were, without me; at a time a pair of hurricanes were heavy on the neck of Central America, I went to Mexico to surf. I went because of these things. I went because the stories I told myself had begun to fail."

21 Comments:

At Friday, March 09, 2007 2:41:00 PM, Blogger Tillerman said...

Congratulations. So what is your book about? And why so long before we can buy it?

 
At Friday, March 09, 2007 2:41:00 PM, Blogger Tillerman said...

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At Friday, March 09, 2007 6:07:00 PM, Blogger dave rich said...

Awsome!!!! Let us know when we can purchase.

ohh, Allan Weisbecker wrote "In search of captain zero", but that guys a little off his rocker

 
At Friday, March 09, 2007 9:25:00 PM, Blogger Grandma said...

Tillerman, without giving too much away, I like to think of my book as a medical detective story...but it's all true, and I am the detective. It's about how ordinary people are lied to by those in positions of power...organized medicine, the government, the companies that make drugs and devices. This story is intertwined with true stories of people who trusted their doctors and were horribly harmed.

It's not a light read, and there are lots of footnotes. I love footnotes. Not for their own sake, but because I like getting as deep into a story as I can.

 
At Friday, March 09, 2007 9:26:00 PM, Blogger Grandma said...

Oh, and it takes so long because there's still some editing to be done, and then it just takes about a year for the publisher to get the book out. That is pretty standard practice.

 
At Saturday, March 10, 2007 6:10:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

who is the publisher?

 
At Saturday, March 10, 2007 6:10:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

do you have a job?

 
At Saturday, March 10, 2007 6:11:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

how old are you really?

 
At Saturday, March 10, 2007 6:11:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

do graphic novels count?

 
At Saturday, March 10, 2007 6:11:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I read books.

 
At Saturday, March 10, 2007 6:11:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

and surfer magazine.

 
At Saturday, March 10, 2007 6:12:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

are you surprised?

 
At Saturday, March 10, 2007 6:54:00 PM, Blogger Grandma said...

Welcome Anonymous. Writing is a real job, if you do it seriously, even if you're not sure who you're working for until you're done; it's a university press; I'm glad you read books; I read Surfer magazine too; and I'm way older than you.

 
At Sunday, March 11, 2007 12:42:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

what university, is it for the library or something? I was kidding about surfer, but i didn't know they had real articles, now I know. How do you make money until they pay you, you know, when you're writing.

 
At Monday, March 12, 2007 8:50:00 AM, Blogger Grandma said...

That just means the publisher is a university.

Hopefully you have money from your last job while you're working on a job where you don't yet know who's going to buy your work.

 
At Monday, March 12, 2007 2:12:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

what was your last job, lady?

 
At Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:54:00 AM, Blogger Bunty said...

Well done Grandma. Good luck with it all!

 
At Saturday, March 24, 2007 8:34:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks, that was very sweet of you. Thanks for digging West. And good luck with your book--it sounds great.

 
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