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Got the Advance Reading Copies

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Of TFAOAFGND, and I think they look pretty good. But so I’m reading the first page, and thinking this is a killer first page, and then get down a few grafs and see, crap, a freaking typo. But this is what advance copies are for, or one of the things.

It’s a curious thing, a physical copy of a book that is going to be an ebook — all the heft you’d expect from a book that will, when it is finally published have no heft.

a stack of Final Appearance advance reading copies

If you’re a reviewer or tastemaker, thought-leader, or just a general bon vivant (you must have evidence of status as bon vivant), shoot Margaret an email at margaret@shelfmediagroup.com and request a copy. You might get lucky.

Advance word on TFAOAFGND

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“The Final Appearance of America’s Favorite Girl Next Door is about a lot of things. Memory. Celebrity. Family. Identity. Chance. But more than anything, it’s a love story, two love stories in fact. It’s a wise and funny chronicle of a Hollywood star who tries to escape, only to find herself confronted with emptiness, with the shocking knowledge that she doesn’t even know herself.
The Final Appearance of America’s Favorite Girl Next Door is about a lot of things. Memory. Celebrity. Family. Identity. Chance. But more than anything, it’s a love story, two love stories in fact. It’s a wise and funny chronicle of a Hollywood star who tries to escape, only to find herself confronted with emptiness, with the shocking knowledge that she doesn’t even know herself.”

— Neil Shurley (@thatneilguy)

The rest is here.

The Bob Delusion

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This is the novel I promised myself I’d have finished last year. Well, it’s now this year. I’m hanging this out there in the electronic universe just in case anyone wants to read and comment on it.

I’m using Apple’s Pages to write it, and but to put it out there using Adobe’s interesting beta, I had to convert it to Word, which doesn’t get all of the formatting exactly right, and since I use fonts that you might not have, I’ve changed some of them to more or less universal fonts.

Update: Acrobat.com is no longer in beta, and I don’t really have any use for it. You can see pieces of TBD on Fictionaut, if you really want to by using the link.

This is a work in progress, in which on a day his wife has served him with divorce papers, his company is hinting at layoffs, and he is really in no condition for any more weirdness, the most unprecedentedly weird thing happens to him imaginable. He runs into himself, or, more literally, himself runs into him. This is not a guy who looks like him. This is him.

Even more weirdness ensues.

If you want to take a look and give me feedback, please email me and I will give you access.