May 18, 2007
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Book Expo America 2 weeks today
On Friday the first of June, two weeks today, Book Expo America opens for three days at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Centre in Manhattan, and – inshallah – I will be there.
My book’s one of the titles shown on one of the booths run by PMA – Booths 4041 to 4044, I don’t yet know which - and I’ll be hanging out there, grabbing buyers gently by the throat as they pass.
Of course, New York is a big city, and I might get lost.
But I have a plan.
If that happens, I’ll ask directions in an exaggerated English accent and do Mr. Bean impressions.
Comments (16)
Hey man congrats! That sounds totally freakin exciting! You’ll have to recap the whole experience when you get back!
MR BEAAN.
i can do his voice.
squack .
Congratulations to you!
Congrats
thanks for telling me your priceless opinion.
an exaggerated English accent and do Mr. Bean impressions
Isn’t Mr Bean nearly entirely mute?
The posts are still here….anyways
I would give anyone with an English accent directions.
Heh, not paint. Just lamé spandex. I don’t imagine that they would be very comfortable.
nice.
nice hair.
nice book. =]
Yeah. That makes sense actually.
But on the other hand I’m a miserable bitch and I’m skinny, so something went wrong there.
New York is wonderful and you’ll have a great time. Remember the Avenues go north/south and the street go east/west. It’s pretty hard to get lost, really. Compare it to London where street names change for no reason whatsoever! Have fun in New York!
RYC: I have a grammar professor friend who would be all over you about putting in a commma after a breath. He gets nuts about this issue. Commas are there for sound grammatical reasons, not breaths. And I would never leave a comma out to indicated a person was talking quickly. It just looks like bad grammar. Better to use a phrase to indicate that the speaker is in a hurry or is breathless or whatever. As a reader, I’d be really irritated with dialog that left out commas.
You are right about complete sentences and one-word answers. That’s what I meant when I said it’s full sentences peppered with fragments. I think I’ve got about 100 percent agreement on this. The poor slob who runs that writing list must have some godawful dialog in his work.
Lynn
hawhaw.
you cant find it here.
are you getting better lol?
everyone i kno is depressed now cuz of the weather. its so damn hot. my hair looks like fuck and i can barely spike it cuz of the damn heat. its hella pissing me off
good luck at the expo
i friggin love mr. bean.
i didn’t figure you were much like mr. bean, but yeah.
soil, clay, dirt, mud, filth. whatever you want to call it, i love it as a symbol.