News Flashers

Amy Sewell, Co-editor of SHE’S OUT THERE!, along with subjects Fiona Lowenstein, Kyera Singleton & Kara Silverman was on Fox news Fox & Friends May 18, 2009.

And, Heather Ogilvie, Co-editor of SHE’S OUT THERE!, along with subject Fiona Lowenstein was on CBS local news, May 23, 2009

Party like it’s 2009

After two years of work & waiting, weeks of printing & finishing work, not to mention party planning, we have our launch party & show.(all photos courtesy of Jan Urestsky, except as marked)

The Portable Chef Uri Attia creates a lineup of sustainable delicacies, like ramp-parmesan frittata, pastured pork sausage, asparagus with ginger-soy-lime dipping sauce, local cheddar pate a choux, herbed spiced nuts, and a “the most ridiculously good chocolate cake of all time.” Did I mention all the plates, cups, platters & napkins were specially picked because they will easily biodegrade. Corn “plastic” cups anyone?

Yours truly.

Editor Heather Ogilvie, Kevin Moran, a guy in striped shirt & Carol Lambos.

Kara Silverman poses for her husband Ryan Jolley with her picture from the book.

Barry Wacksman, of RGA Advertising & our crack publicist Marni Salub, of the Salub Group.

Connoisseurs enjoying the art...and the wine.

Cover girl Fiona Lowenstein, with Heather.

(l to r) Kelly Tully, Cameron Russell, Kara Silverman, Fiona Lowenstein, Amy Sewell, Robert Ripps & Heather Ogilvie are framed by the gallery’s signature arch.

Uri can barely keep up with the hungry masses.

Heather & Jan Uretsky (hey, I think I took this one).

A quite moment to peruse the book.

Sign O’ The Times

Our book signing at Barnes & Noble was a huge success, standing room only, and we almost sold all 90 odd books they had- time to order more I guess.

Marie C. Wilson, Founder and
President of The White House
Project spoke and introduced
four of our book subjects, who
then read their essays &
answered questions.








My editors Amy Sewell & Heather Ogilvie & I also spoke about the project.




Then, it was on to the book signing. My first signature- with a pink pen no less.













Heather & I sign- she thinks of brilliant things to say, I try not to look like Tom Hanks.


All photos courtesy/©2009 Jan Uretsky

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?