She’s Out There! is bigger than…

…Oliver!

It’s official, SHE’S OUT THERE!
is out there! The truck came today and dropped off 38
boxes (all for my personal
consumption).

Surprise!

I just went over to my local Barnes & Noble, where we will be doing a book signing on Monday, and low & behold, there by the front door was a whole table of copies SHE’S OUT THERE! for sale. This was the first time I saw an actual printed copy, held one in my hands, and was able to rife through the pages- wow, I guess we did it!!! I managed to only buy one book, as I have a whole bunch coming soon.

Steal from the poor to pay the rich

Please follow this link to read this Op Ed piece from the Wall Street Journal by one of my favorite authors, Mark Helprin, explaining why you should care about and support strong copyright protections for creators.

Progress!

I am almost finished printing the pictures for the She’s Out There! book launch/show, Wednesday, May 20, 2009.  A few years ago I would have shot chromes, had them processed, then taken them to another lab, had internegs made, then had prints blown up from those, all at great expense.  And unless I got custom prints made, they didn’t look too good.

Now, with digital technology, I can shoot it, process it, retouch it, archive it in multiple places, and when I am ready, output it in a variety of sizes on a variety of mediums for just the cost of materials (and of course a $3,000 printer) in an hour or so, any time of the day or night.

This also uses up all my free time, saving me the cost of many expensive hobbies like polo or hang gilding, or pricy vacations to exotic places, or the risk of paper cuts while reading actually books.  How did we survive before digital?

Building steam

We are starting to get some good press for SHE’S OUT THERE!...from Maine to New York to cyberspace, take a look at a few:

• Tribeca Trib, May 2009, page 37
  
• The Daily News, Sunday Now section, May 3, 2009, page 19
  
• Kennebec Journal Morning Sentinel (online), May 3, 2009
  
• Franco-American News and Events blog, May 3, 2009
  
• Write On, Girl! Newsflash/Girls Write Now website May 2009- book mention
  

To be continued....

God is in the details (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)

At the offices of our publisher, Co-editor Heather Ogilvie looks over the SHE'S OUT THERE! proof pages with an eagles eye.  Can a finished product be right around the corner?  Yes!  We are in the home stretch.

Only a couple of weeks until our book signing at Barnes & Noble, Tribeca, on May 18, 2009.

Getting buzzed!

A nice mention on the Seventeen magazine blog ....