Thursday, April 12, 2012

Be Impressed By Me Based On Me Knowing People Who Do Cool Things


Have I ever mentioned that I know a real life fiction writer?  Meaning, I am one degree from this person versus, say three degrees from Kevin Bacon*. 

A producer I worked with on an advertising campaign also wrote an entire freaking book.  I knew she had gone to grad school for creative writing, but I didn’t know that in addition to putting in 18 hour days while pregnant she had a side gig in the works too.

When Everything Lovely, Effortless, Safe by Jenny Hollowell came out, I was first in line to get it.  Perhaps because 1% of me thought that there would be at least one paragraph about my total mismanagement of our joint project.  (Due to copious amounts of editing on your behalf dear reader, I do not delve into frustrations of that 4 year old project here.  This commentary would have had no reflection on the wonderful work of Jenny and everything to do with Corporate America.)

You know I love a book with great character development, so this book is IT.  Buy it and read it.  

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