BEA/TAC Day 1! Babbo, 007 and The Good Wife
The NYC trip was a whirlwind of organized chaos–I had such a fantastic time!
So we arrived at JFK after an early-early 5 a.m. wake up. My lovely friend Martha Flynn drove myself and Jenn Laughran to the airport. I snoozed a bit on the plane, which is unusual for me, but 5 a.m.?! After a movie and some music and some writing of the fantasy novel (couple new scenes!) we arrived at JFK to a long, long, long a$$ line of people waiting for taxis.
As you can see, I was too excited to be bothered by the Space Mountain length taxi line
Amazing dinner at Babbo the famous restaurant where an Iron Chef runs the kitchen!
Babbo NYC
Who is these grainy over-exposed people you may ask?
On the left if Juliana Marguiles and directly to her right is THE Pierce Brosnan himself! And naturally there’s a story behind this. My friend Laurel and I were standing at the bar sipping wine, waiting for one of the walk-in tables to become available as we obviously didn’t book a table a month in advance. So, Laurel, who knows I love the celebrity sightings like whoa, turns to me and says,
Laurel: Pierce Brosnan just walked in.
Heidi: Move. (Yes, that’s what I said. Then I proceeded to slightly cheat out toward Pierce. Remember, this is NYC the Capitol of Fire Hazards, squashing patrons in establishments like sardines. So really, I just had to adjust my heels to face Pierce. I looked at him, waiting until we made eye contact and then said:
Heidi: Hi Pierce.
Which was met by a slightly confused expression, but only “slightly” as The Pierce is an actor. He nodded, shot me a slight smile, extended his hand and said, “Helllllo,” as only Pierce can.
I took his hand in mine, gave it a nice, firm shake, then twisted back toward Laurel as if I run into Pierce every day. I’m sure he thought he knew me from somewhere.
Poor confused Pierce.
Then, he proceeds to approach a corner table and Laurel says, “That’s the woman from E.R. the nurse who was with George Clooney.”
(See? This is why I travel everywhere with Laurel.)
Juliana Marguiles, best known now for the Good Wife (which I’ve never seen.)
Anyway, she is gorgeous and stunning and talked with her hands in an engaging matter their entire meal. Not that we were watching. ;-)
She laughed loudly and told jokes, I thought she rocked socks.
I’m not sure what the dealio was, but they seemed like they might be working together on a project–several other people were at their table, but they did sit next to each other and talked a lot. It was all very exciting.
We talked with his driver afterwards. Okay, no judging. It was a coincidence!
From across the street (we didn’t want to bug them) we took this picture.
And voila! Not as hot as Jude Law, but it will due. ;-)
We caught the last half of Lost and I took a pic of the Jimmy Kimmel after show to capture the moment. Confusing, but beautiful. There were many hand clutches and tears.
Jack, Sawyer, Kate and gang, you will be missed.
It’s not a Heidi NYC Hotel without iconic photographs on the wall.
These two were sad about LOST too it seems.
I get it, I get it.
Stay tuned for Monday’s post where I visit Penguin! Speak and sign at Author Carnival! And basically engage in fun, only-in-NYC shenanigans.
Have a great weekend!
10′er WINNERS! WEEK #8′s EPIC CONTEST!
Thanks for all the lovely things you said about The Tenners!
Sorry for the delay in announcing the winners.
Without further adieu the winner of THE BODY FINDER by Kimberly Derting kderting is k_teach21 , and the winner of THE REINVENTION OF EDISON THOMAS by jjhoutman is elnice Please email me at heidi at heidirkling dot com with your snail mail!
Thanks so much to the authors for donating your novels!
Thanks for playing!
THIS WEEK’S CONTEST WILL BE EPIC
To enter do FOUR following things:
1. Find and LINK your FAVORITE REVIEW OF SEA (I’m collecting my favorite for my remodeled website)
2. CHANGE YOUR AVATAR to SEA on TWitter and/or Facebook
3. Link this contest to your blog/website/facebook
4. TWEET this contest or RT this contest
5. CALL or GO INTO your local CHAIN BOOKSTORE and ask if they PLAN ON carrying SEA (Borders/Barnes & Noble) Don’t ask them to order it if you don’t intend on purchasing it there.
6. SAME by with your local INDIE STORE (if you’ve already asked, don’t do it again.)
I’m leaving for Teen Author Carnival and BEA on Sunday.
I may be bringing home BOOKS.
SIGNED BOOKS
Winner will be announced next week sometime.
Happy Entering!
-Heidi
FOR MORE INFO ON TEEN AUTHOR CARNIVAL GO HERE:
http://seaheidi.livejournal.com/178746.html
WIN A SIGNED COPY OF SEA PLUS Orange Converse!
DO THE WRITE THING FOR NASHVILLE (and for orange in general…)
http://dothewritethingfornashville.blogspot.com/2010/05/day-7-item-11.html
RUN RUN!
Bidding is already at $110 smackers!
Extra! Extra! Read all about me!*
(The subject is not the last of the bad jokes in this post. Be warned.)
So I realize with all these contests etc. I’m not doing a good job telling you
WHAT I’M DOING AND WHERE I’M GOING TO WISH MY BOOK A HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
So here is an ANNOUNCEMENT of upcoming shenanigans.
1. TEEN AUTHOR CARNIVAL, New York City, MONDAY, MAY 24
One May 24 I’ll be signing and speaking with all these amazing authors listed here:
http://teenauthorcarnival.blogspot.com/
There may be some of these:
And will certainly be SEA related things like toys and stickers and bookmarks. Well, definitely bookmarks. So come and see me! Please!
2. BEA, New York City, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26
I’ll be wandering around. Look for me! Buy me stuff! I like pizza from trucks!
According to Steve B. all the cool kids are wearing these.
3. KEPLER’S BOOKS THURSDAY June 10, 2010 (SEA’s BIRTHDAY!)
So honored to be signing with the fabulous and wonderful Jandy Nelson and Nina LaCour 7:00 p.m.
“Reality Bites” is the theme.
But we don’t bite.
Also, we don’t write about vampires. Yet. ;-)
4. BOOKS INC, NOT YOUR MOTHER’S BOOK CLUB, JUNE 12, 2010, 6:30-close! SATURDAY MY LAUNCH PARTY!! WEEEEEEEEEE!
Look at THIS BEAUTY:
Everyone is invited! Indonesian food, music, dancing (if you want to dance), reading, signing, crying, laughing…
I cannot wait!
5. BOOK PASSAGE TEEN WRITING WORKSHOP & SIGNING! June 19 10-3
Info here! http://www.bookpassage.com/class_detailed.php?id=721
The workshop is being presented with award-winning authors Malinda Lo (ASH) and Cheryl Herbsman (BREATHING) and I’m terribly excited about it! Please come!
We’re signing at 3 p.m.!
AND LATER THAT NIGHT, the three of us will cruise up to
COPPERFIELD’S in SANTA ROSA at 7 p.m. for a SUMMER OF LOVE signing/reading/cookie fiesta!
Will post the flyers for both events when I get them.
6. ALA (American Library Association) JUNE 28, Washington D.C., Monday, 11:30 a.m.
I’ll be SIGNING copies of SEA! If you’re a librarian or a reader person please come see me!
I’ll also sign bookmarks and will possibly have STICKERS. But probably NOT popsicles. (Too sticky. Too melty.)
I’m so looking forward to this! I attended ALA in Anaheim way back when and librarians have to be some of the most fabulous people roaming our earth.
I have a couple more surprises but I’ll save those for another rainy day*.
Please come see me. I promise I’m much cooler in person.**
Have a great one!
*it’s not raining-but since the last paragraph is the first paragraph in disguise, I had to end with a bad joke.
**if I wear the orange shoes, Steve B. promises I will be anyway. ;-)
SEA BLUE PEOPLE WIN MYSTERY BOOKS CONTEST: WEEK #7
Congratulations to last week’s winners!
bookaholic_d Indeed the odds WERE in your favor!
WINS RESTORING HARMONY
AND magabygc wins a SIGNED paperback copy of NYT Bestselling THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH!
Use the form on my website: http://heidirkling.com/contact/ to send me your addresses winners!
SO this week’s contest is TENNER WEEK!
ALL MYSTERY BOOKS
MORE THAN ONE WINNER!
ENTER TO WIN BY
-LEAVING A COMMENT ABOUT WHY THE TENNERS ARE AWESOME
-LINKING THIS CONTEST to your Blog, Website, Facebook
-FAN a TENNER BOOK on Facebook (Or “like” as they do now)
Do you know SEA has its own FAN PAGE?
Well, it does.
Here it is! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sea/196011472443?ref=ts
SEA updates are posted there all the time by my awesome intern Mitali Dave (who is so on the ball she found a place that sells special Orange Popsicles in NYC that *may* be appearing at Teen Author Carnival May 24 along with moi…but I digress. Back to the contest…
You know the drill, ends Friday at Midnight my time. Winners announced following Monday!
And HOLY SMOKES SEA DEBUTS IN ONE MONTH!!
Whoa.
Dude.
Pass the smelling salts.
Have a great week everybody!
Happy Birthday Princess B and Happy Mother’s Day to you all!
Life has a way of zooming by at a break-neck speed, doesn’t it?
SEA is out in a month.
And my Princess Buttercup is turning TWO.
TWO YEARS OLD.
And I’m getting all tearing thinking about when I was pregnant with her, which seems like months ago.
Or minutes. Depending on the moment.
And you all were so supportive and wonderful and remember when I posted that picture of a baby in a basket and said when she appeared and took her first breath it was like she was a princess I stumbled upon in a forest?
Well, she’s still like that.
Remembering when I was revising SEA with my belly pushing against that slab of mock-granite in my kitchen?
She’d kick after I’d eat burritos and dance and twirl.
She still dances and twirls, but kicks me when she *wants* burritos now.
This morning we were at our group play date congregated pee wee style at a watery-fun-summer park and I noticed a group of little girls were shy about entering this cement tunnel that’s meant to look like a burrow for ground hogs and I suggested, “Sweetie, go show your friends how to do that, they want to follow you in.”
I watched her confidently lead the way and in my head I thought: “There she is–that’s her.”
My husband commented that I’m tougher on her than I was our son, because I don’t coddle her as much.
It’s probably because I’m less anxious because she is my second. I’ve already done this.
But maybe it is because she’s a girl.
Because I know what a monumental task it is to be a woman in this world, especially a woman that wants it all: a great family, a successful career, a rich and full life. And I want her to feel confident enough to try for that, if that’s what she wants to. It’s not easy–each day I struggle with the balance that keeps everyone I care about happy and satisfied and safe–stretching my energies as thin as they can possibly go without snapping. But I’m not resentful at all–I’m happy. Exhausted, but deliriously happy. And I want her to be too.
So we went shopping yesterday for summer clothes and summer shoes.
I always let her pick out her own.
Crazy blue sparkling things.
If she wants to sparkle, she should sparkle, if she wants to shine, I’ll let her shine.
I want her to feel confident in her own skin and part of that is selecting what you wear.
Truth is I’m not tough with my baby girl at all. I’m the opposite.
I don’t hover, I keep her safe.
If she trips, I wait, I watch–to see if she needs me instead of crying out, “Are you okay?!”
Which only makes her worry “Maybe I’m not okay?” Nine times out of ten she dusts off her knees and takes back off after her brother into the tall grass.
This time around. For this child, I wait.
If she needs me, she knows what happens next.
I dry her wings, I help her get back up.
I kiss her boo boo and watch her fly.
Do the Write Thing for Nashville Day 1
Heard about the terrible flooding in Nashville?
Three YA writers are doing something about it!
They are holding an auction where many YA authors and other pub biz peeps are donating their time (15 page crits/agent phone calls) to raise money for flood victims!
It’s such a worthy cause and they have so many goodies up for grab!
Go here for more info: http://dothewritethingfornashville.blogspot.com/
SEA BLUE PEOPLE WIN DYSTOPIAN BOOKS CONTEST WEEK #6! DFTBA EDITION
dani_bookworm and lovelyhannahs are last week’s winners!
Dani wins signed by both NYT bestselling authors hardcover copy of Will Grayson, Will Grayson and lovely Hannah wins signed by John Green paperback copy of the Printz award-winning (and one of my favorite books) Looking for Alaska!
Thanks to all who entered especially for asking about SEA in bookstores and doing your good deed. I loved reading your favorite words too. You are all awesome.
SO THIS WEEK BLUE PEOPLE
I’m giving away an ARC of Restoring Harmony!
Enter to win by picking 4 things:
Tweeting this contest or RT’ing this contest
Linking this contest on Facebook or Linking this contest on your blog
Doing another act of kindness (I love that one!)
Sharing what is your favorite genre of YA: contemporary, fantasy, dystopian? And WHY?
What is your WORST APOCALYPTIC FEAR? Zombies, tsunamis, The Hunger Games–?
Doing something SEA related (cuz, in the end, this has to somehow loop back to me, right? ;) ) whether it be changing your avatar, adding it to another Goodreads list, talking to your local bookstore, whatever–tell me what you did, karma will pay you back threefold!
If you’re lucky I *may* toss in another pretty fabulous dystopian just for kicks.
Contest ends midnight PDT FRIDAY.
Winner revealed Monday next!
Have fun, y’all!
This image found googling: End of the World. O_o
Fun fact? When I googled “dystopian” images, it asked, “Do you mean utopian?” Actually, I’d rather, but…no.
Author Chat with Joelle Anthony
So pleased to have my fellow Putnam debut author Joelle Anthony with us today to talk about her debut novel Resoring Harmony!
Bonus: Joelle is giving away an ARC of SEA here: http://joelleanthony.com/blog/
So after you read the interview, head on over there and check it out! And for a chance to win an ARC of Restoring Harmony come back here Monday. :-)
Congratulations on your novel. Tell us a little bit about your book.
The year is 2041, and for Molly McClure, her life is pretty much the same as it’s always been. She was only six when the Collapse of ’31 happened, ending life as the world’s population knew it. When she is forced to leave the comfort of her home and small island in British Columbia to travel down to Oregon, Molly discovers how hard the Collapse has been on the rest of the world.
What starts out as a quick trip to the U.S. to convince her grandfather to return to Canada and be the island’s doctor, turns into a rescue mission, a test of Molly’s strengths, ingenuity, and sheer determination. Will a farm girl like Molly survive in this upturned world? Will she be able to return with her grandpa in time for him to help her ailing mother? And just how much will she have to compromise to succeed in getting back to B.C.?
Do you consider it YA or MG?
Restoring Harmony is a young adult novel, but they are marketing it twelve and up. I can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be appropriate for the middle grade market.
Where did you come up with the idea?
I read an excerpt from James Kuntsler’s book The Long Emergency on a bulletin board when I was visiting Canada on my honeymoon. He predicts the end of oil is coming (as peak oil has already happened) and he talks about a transition period. It wasn’t the end of oil that interested me so much as this time period where people bounced back from it, and how they dealt with it, that caught my attention. I’m afraid Mr. Kuntsler would say the world I created is much too tame and it will be a lot worse, but others who have also made predictions about the end of oil will say my world will never happen and we’ll be fine. I created what I needed for my story.
Have you always been a fan of dystopian novels? Which are your favorites?
I don’t think I’ve ever read a dystopian novel! I also think it’s kind of funny that Restoring Harmony has received the dystopian label because I never would’ve considered it to fall into that category myself. If you look up the definition, it does technically fit though. I think of dystopian as some sort of natural disaster or something that happens way off in the future, in a different world. Restoring Harmony is set only thirty years from now, and is very much this world. The problems people are dealing with are mostly from economic collapse, not something wild or futuristic. One reviewer pointed out that what she found different in RH from most dystopian novels is that it’s the collapse of technology that affects their daily lives, not new technology, and I think that’s why I never thought of it as dystopian. It seems like things are sliding backward in RH, instead of moving forward.
What is it like living on an island in real life?
Living on an island is a lot like living in a small town. The pace of life is slower, there’s not much crime, you see everyone you know at the grocery store, and people are just as likely to drop in as they are to call if they want to talk to you. And we sit around and drink a lot of tea!
Do you think islands are safer in a disaster, like the one in your book?
Well, islands certainly aren’t safer in a disaster like a tsunami! I wouldn’t say they’re safer, but I would say that an island naturally fosters a sense of community. We know a lot of the people who live here, and recognize many more. There’s a real sense of working together here, as well as an awareness of the environment, growing our own food, cooperative transportation, and supporting small businesses. In the event of being cut off from the rest of the world, we would be in trouble for a while – for example, the gas station only has enough gas for about a week and the grocery store could only feed us for about three days. In a real emergency, we’d all have to pull together, and I think that because of the way we already act as a community, we might have an advantage over someplace like a big city. Hopefully, we’ll never find out though!
Who are some of your favorite writers? J
ohn Rowe Townsend, Maud Hart Lovelace, Nevil Shute, Meg Cabot, Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Kerry Madden, Elizabeth Scott, Suzanne Selfors, the list really could go on and on….
What’s up next for you?
The next book is called The Right & the Real. I’ve just finished it, which is good because it’s due to my editor on March 1st! This is the first draft she will see in its entirety, so finished is relative. There’s still all the editing to do. Here’s the blurb for it: HE RIGHT AND THE REAL, follows seventeen-year-old Jamie Lexington-Cross whose father throws her out of the house when she refuses to join the cult he’s gotten involved with, forcing her to survive on her own; but when Dad finds himself in danger, she comes to the rescue armed with her newly acquired street smarts.
And most importantly, where can we find your book?
It comes out May 13th, and you can pre-order it through lots of indie bookstores online or you can do the Amazon thing. In Canada, Chapters is carrying it too. Ironically, the one place you can’t order it yet is Powell’s. I say “ironically” because I’m from Portland and the book is set in Portland! Hopefully they’ll add it soon, because all Portland writers know they’ve made it when Powell’s carries their book, and so I’m waiting for that to happen.
My website is http://www.joelleanthony.com
http://www.joelleanthony.com
http://www.anthonysundaysoup.blogspot.com
Joëlle Anthony’s young adult novel, Restoring Harmony, is a riveting tale of how a resourceful teen survives, and even finds romance, in a future world where no one is as they seem. Putnam Books for Young Readers, May 2010
Pre-order it now from your favourite bookstore.
The Right & the Real – forthcoming from Putnam Books for Young Readers
