following up
In the chaos of release week I forgot to say: thanks for sending me money, guys! It was really weird and great to have dollars just like, appear in my inbox, and even weirder and greater to hear from people I don't know being like, I do read these, and they are meaningful to me. Wild! Who knew! Thank you so much! From now on there will be a Paypal link at the bottom of every Tinyletter; if you're ever feeling flush, or particularly excited about something I've written, every single dollar is noticed and appreciated.
Speaking of asking you for things: if you read GRACE AND THE FEVER and liked it, as I suggested you might, it would be very helpful if you could review it online somewhere. Amazon, for instance, is more likely to suggest my book to other buyers if there are a bunch of reviews for it. You can just say "it was cool" and smash that five star button (or fewer, vote your conscience by all means)-- you don't have to like, get deep about it or anything. (You also don't have to have bought the book on Amazon to do this, I don't think. I would never encourage you to buy books on Amazon, just to help me game their system.)
The personal essay that usually goes here is up on The Hairpin this week: it's about the particular nerves of taking on a novel project, and how having a friend willing to chill with you while you write it is sometimes the only thing that makes it better. <3 u, Logan.
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In continued book news: my great love Catie Disabato wrote about The Great American Pop Star Novel for Full Stop, featuring the most generous review of GRACE + me yammering about why pop culture is so important. Jaime Green interviewed me for Google Play Books! And I wrote about One Direction and depression AGAIN.
Anna Dorn also wrote a piece about the queerness of the book, which truly thrilled me-- writing about queerness as a straight woman is always a risky proposition, and it's doubly true when you're writing about women-- straight and otherwise-- obsessing over and to an extent fetishizing gay men. So seeing someone engage with that aspect of the book, and get excited about how I'd done it, was just extremely cool for me.
In non-book news: I wrote about edible cacti for Healthyish.
In further non-book news: I am so fucking tired. Release week is no joke, guys. If you would like to hear me express this sentiment in person, look at all the places I'm gonna be soon:
Los Angeles GRACE reading and signing at Skylight Books
Thursday, May 25, 7:30 pm (TOMORROW!!!!!!)
New York GRACE reading and signing at McNally Jackson
Wednesday, June 7, 7:00 pm
In conversation with Alanna Massey, author of All the Lives I Want (!!!!)
NYMBC Presents: The YA Road Trip Panel at Books Inc.
Thursday, July 27, 7:00 pm
Heading to San Francisco alongside fellow LA YA-ers Maurene Goo, Kayla Kagan, Lilliam Rivera!
Want more? Oh, there's always more. I'm teaching a beginning nonfiction class for Writing Workshops LA this summer. My first order of business was putting Edith Zimmerman on the syllabus. I got the germ of the idea that became A SONG TO TAKE THE WORLD APART in a WWLA class; I'm not promising the same results, I' just saying, taking a writing class can be a powerfully good idea.
Sorry for the promo-to-content ratio on this lately; it will settle back down again soon, I promise.
Speaking of asking you for things: if you read GRACE AND THE FEVER and liked it, as I suggested you might, it would be very helpful if you could review it online somewhere. Amazon, for instance, is more likely to suggest my book to other buyers if there are a bunch of reviews for it. You can just say "it was cool" and smash that five star button (or fewer, vote your conscience by all means)-- you don't have to like, get deep about it or anything. (You also don't have to have bought the book on Amazon to do this, I don't think. I would never encourage you to buy books on Amazon, just to help me game their system.)
The personal essay that usually goes here is up on The Hairpin this week: it's about the particular nerves of taking on a novel project, and how having a friend willing to chill with you while you write it is sometimes the only thing that makes it better. <3 u, Logan.
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In continued book news: my great love Catie Disabato wrote about The Great American Pop Star Novel for Full Stop, featuring the most generous review of GRACE + me yammering about why pop culture is so important. Jaime Green interviewed me for Google Play Books! And I wrote about One Direction and depression AGAIN.
Anna Dorn also wrote a piece about the queerness of the book, which truly thrilled me-- writing about queerness as a straight woman is always a risky proposition, and it's doubly true when you're writing about women-- straight and otherwise-- obsessing over and to an extent fetishizing gay men. So seeing someone engage with that aspect of the book, and get excited about how I'd done it, was just extremely cool for me.
In non-book news: I wrote about edible cacti for Healthyish.
In further non-book news: I am so fucking tired. Release week is no joke, guys. If you would like to hear me express this sentiment in person, look at all the places I'm gonna be soon:
Los Angeles GRACE reading and signing at Skylight Books
Thursday, May 25, 7:30 pm (TOMORROW!!!!!!)
New York GRACE reading and signing at McNally Jackson
Wednesday, June 7, 7:00 pm
In conversation with Alanna Massey, author of All the Lives I Want (!!!!)
NYMBC Presents: The YA Road Trip Panel at Books Inc.
Thursday, July 27, 7:00 pm
Heading to San Francisco alongside fellow LA YA-ers Maurene Goo, Kayla Kagan, Lilliam Rivera!
Want more? Oh, there's always more. I'm teaching a beginning nonfiction class for Writing Workshops LA this summer. My first order of business was putting Edith Zimmerman on the syllabus. I got the germ of the idea that became A SONG TO TAKE THE WORLD APART in a WWLA class; I'm not promising the same results, I' just saying, taking a writing class can be a powerfully good idea.
Sorry for the promo-to-content ratio on this lately; it will settle back down again soon, I promise.
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