"Merchandising, Merchandising..."*

Just found out that you can now buy t-shirts, coffee mugs and mousepads with The Silver Spoon diner logo on them. Thanks to Sherrie for working on this! I love this design because it looks like these are items you could buy in the diner itself, at least until it meets its unfortunate fate at the end of Chapter 1. Which is hinted at in the somewhat inside joke of a tagline "It's a blast."

*Huge bonus points to you if you can figure out what movie the title of this blog comes from...
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I'm having one of those days where everything feels way too overwhelming. All the sites I've been looking at for book promotion list all these things to do that I probably should have been doing a long time ago (i.e. contacting reviewers months in advance -- though I did do this, sending out press releases, etc.) I don't even know how to write a press release!! I should know how. But I suck at journalism. To me it's the exact opposite of fiction. In fiction, you build to the strong moment, the big event. In journalism, you start off with the big event, the news, and then work down to the smaller stuff. Plus, you have to do weird stuff like find an interesting angle to make it newsworthy.

Okay, so maybe that's not so weird. But I have no idea why something is newsworthy! You know how some people can take the most arcane angle to something and make it an interesting headline -- I am not one of those people!!! I just want to say, look, here's the deal, I'm a local author with a book coming out. It's a good story with alien conspiracies and complicated alien/human relationships that raises the question how do you define who you really are? Is it your family? How you were raised? Your genes? Your environment? Plus, there's lots of chasing and fighting, a really big explosion, an evil alien guy, and a love interest that you'll well...love. At least I hope so.

Think I can print that out and send it? Just kidding...maybe.

Talk to you on Monday.