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February 7, 2012
Today, Riverhead Books published their edition of Other People We Married. I could not be more excited–the book still has the same gorgeous cover, designed by my handsome husband, and has some nice new blurbs from Karen Russell, Kelly Link, and Thisbe Nissen, and all the typos have been fixed. Hooray!
Lots of exciting things happened today: Elissa Schappell gave OPWM a shout-out on Vanity Fair’s Just My Type, a really good interview went up on Bomb, I made some banana bread, and I made a Facebook event page for my One and Only reading this spring. See below for photographic proof that Stephin and I have been doing work on our muse(s).
Hope to see you there!
love,
Emma
February 5, 2012
I wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal about how to be an indie bookseller’s dream. You can read it here, and thank me later. Remember when Hugh Grant had a travel bookshop and Julia Roberts fell in love with him? Me too.
love
Emma
January 30, 2012
Tomorrow night, I’m joining my fellow Sackett Street instructors and alums Ted Thompson, Jessica DuLong, and Keija Parsinnen at BookCourt. I’ve loved all my Sackett Street classes, and I’m really excited to be a part of the community. Come if you’re free! There are secret copies of the Riverhead edition of Other People We Married available, too! Come if you can.
Monday, January 30th, 2012
BookCourt
7pm
Hope to see you there!
Emma
January 7, 2012
Yesterday, the mail lady delivered a very exciting package: my first copy of the Riverhead edition of Other People We Married, hot off the press. The book looks simply gorgeous: the cover is the same, but the book has new blurbs from Kelly Link, Thisbe Nissen, and Karen Russell, and is newly copyedited, and I couldn’t love it more if I tried. The pub date is February 7th, a month from today, and it will be available everywhere. Swoon.
Because I did so many events to support the book in New York City in 2011, I knew I only wanted to do one giant smash for the new edition. I am pleased as punch to announce that I’m doing Upstairs at the Square on March 8th, with my dear friend Stephin Merritt. The event will be free and open to the public, held at the Union Square Barnes + Noble, at 7pm. Stephin will sing some songs, I will read a bit, and then we will both be interviewed live on stage by the vivacious Katherine Lanpher. The Magnetic Fields have a new record out in March, Love at the Bottom of the Sea, and it is SO GOOD. After the event, we head off with the rest of the band for a tour of the US and Canada. (Tour blog TK)
The final piece of good news is a rather incredible feat of numbers: it turns out, that with 768 books sold at BookCourt, my book was the 3rd best bestseller of the year, after Patti Smith’s Just Kids (#1) and Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad (#2). Number 3! I’ll take the bronze any day of the week, ladies. A pleasure doing business with you.
Here’s to 2012!
love
Emma
October 3, 2011
I am thrilled to announce that Riverhead Books is going to rerelease Other People We Married in February. This is exciting for many reasons, chief among them being a much wider distribution. Though I live in a city with a number of wonderful independent bookstores, many of which I frequent regularly, I know that’s not true for everyone. Now people will be able to buy the book anywhere, easily, even at Barnes and Noble, and on Amazon.
One of the other joys of having the book rereleased is the opportunity to work with a Real Live Copyeditor, which means that I got a list of every proper noun in the entire book. It struck me that this list was like a little Rorschach test of my personality. To wit:
Joan of Arc
John Keats
John Travolta
Joshua Tree
Katharine Hepburn
Leaves of Grass
Leonard Cohen
L.L.Bean
Marlene Dietrich
Marmaduke
Marshmallow Fluff
That tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the collection, I think. Please pre-order the book wherever you would normally do so. I’ve set up exactly ONE event for the rerelease, and it’s a doozy. Details to follow…
Yours, breathless with gratitude and excitement and, fine, some potato chips,
Emma
August 2, 2011
It is with pride and an-only-very-minorly heavy heart that I announce that after 28 consecutive weeks, I have fallen off the BookCourt Bestseller list. 28 weeks. That is more than six months. Also known as more than half a year. It’s got to be some kind of record, right?
I’m going back to work on Thursday. You can bet your bottom dollar that I’ll be back on that list next week. Also, please know that if you happen to be reading this from Timbuktu, or South Dakota, or Westchester County, you can always call the store to order a copy, and I will sign it for you. Just FYI.
Yours,
Emma
August 2, 2011
Me too! It was so much fun. And now you can listen to the whole thing! Click here to join the party. And you don’t even have to get dressed/drive across town/fly across the country! I like to make things easy for you.
love
Emma
July 30, 2011
It was hard to leave Los Angeles, but the promise of more delicious food and more gorgeous faces made it a teensy bit easier.
 The theme of the trip so far has been this: it's okay to spend more money on a car/hotel if it means the experience will be more pleasant. We are still learning this lesson. The highlight of the car rental experience was picking up a copy of the SF Chronicle, which had this giant picture of my face.  The Booksmith is a fabulous bookstore, with a giant back room where I got to pretend that I was famous. It was kind of like going to the bathroom in a restaurant, which magically makes your food appear. When I came out of the back room, the audience was full. Amazing!  I like to talk with my hands.  My cousins, who now fall into the 'sisters or mother/daughter?' mystery category.  Jessi is getting married tomorrow, AND it's her birthday tomorrow, AND she still came to my reading. Everybody else, your excuses suck.  Nobody tell them there's a story in the book about sisters who hate each other.  This is about as punk rock as I'm ever going to get.  Kate is cute, part one. (Booksmith Edition.)  Caitlin Roper, Dream Date.  I imported Mike and Jenny from New York, and then forced them to sit in the front row.  Joey is the best, and here's why: he brought me a giant box of fancy chocolate AND a DVD cover of Strange Powers for both of us to sign, in addition to my book. What a sweetie. I should mention that another friend brought salted caramels, and a total stranger made lemon bars! Whatever I'm doing, it's working. When I'm 400 pounds, it'll be your fault, people, but I love you for it.  All my friends have cute glasses. This is a truth.  Kevin was my middle school French and Latin teacher. Here's how much French and Latin I know: rien. But isn't he adorable?  Did I mention that the fancy chocolates were golden and shining and beautiful? They were.  Kate is cute, part two. (Tartine Edition.) Now we’re in Marin County for the weekend, where I plan to stroll around and look at beautiful vistas, drink wine, and watch a friend get married. A lovely end to a month away. California, thank you for having me. It’s been hella good.
love,
Emma
July 28, 2011
Oh, Los Angeles. You know I love you! Why do you have to treat me so nicely! It makes it hard to leave. Even though this trip was short on the tacos (a massive oversight) and somehow did not include a trip to the Museum of Jurassic Technology, it did include lots of time in the pool and actual work on my novel. So there’s that. And then, to cap it all off, I had a fabulous time at Skylight last night. Allow me to show you, won’t you?
 Skylight has some top-notch artists on staff.
 Also, chalk. This is some advanced stuff, people. BookCourt, we need to get some chalk.  My high school is very good at making beautiful girls. I'm not talking about me, I'm talking about them.  Edan and Dixon, two well-read people.  Noel passed around the brownies I made, the dear man, so that I didn't have to eat them all myself.  How can you not love a bookstore with a tree growing inside it? 
 Brad Listi, smiling more than I have ever seen him smile before!  This is a scary face, but Robey isn't scary. He's going to open a bookstore in Highland Park, which is the neighborhood that everyone who's anyone is moving to.  Jennifer Bastian is one of Milwaukee's finest, which is really saying something, because Milwaukee has made a lot of very fine people. (See: Straub, Peter; Straub, Susan)  My brother, the Angeleno.  A shy Carolyn Kellogg.  I imported Chelsey and Kara all the way from Ohio.  A summery Jennifer Pooley.  Emily is so awesome that she came to my reading even though she had the day off from Skylight. Now that's love.  Noel was sad that all the brownies were gone.  Cecil has many amazing tricks up her sleeve.  Antoine Wilson, novelist and book model.  Jen gave me the thumbs up. Skylight has such a friendly, awesome staff. 
 Christine was mad because she got caught in traffic for two hours. There was a raver riot (yes, you read that correctly) somewhere on Hollywood Blvd.  But her husband Vinnie was just happy to be at the Dresden, and remained serene.  Shrimp cocktail.  When he's having a good time, Mike's hair gets even bigger.  This is how I feel about leaving LA. All is not lost, though–we’re heading to the airport to go to San Francisco, where I have a reading at the Booksmith tonight. 7:30. I can’t promise brownies, but I do promise love.
I’ll be back soon, LA.
Yours, dripping in sunshine and happiness,
Emma
July 23, 2011
The upcoming week is chockablock with live appearances, both live and transmitted via ethernet (what is that, anyway) tubes or whatever.
TUESDAY: Edan Lepucki and I are having a Live Chat on Goodreads at 5pm EST/2pm PST. We will talk about books and writers and Timmy Riggins and California produce, maybe. Tune in to find out!
WEDNESDAY: I’ll be reading at Skylight Books, the finest book emporium this side of the 405 freeway. (Note: I have no idea where the freeway is, and apologize for anyone I might be insulting. I take surface roads exclusively.) There will be brownies! You should come! 7pm!
THURSDAY: After a brief romance with JetBlue, I’ll be reading at the Booksmith, in San Francisco! Come and tell me which burritos to eat, I beg you. If I can find delicious cookies in between the airport and the bookstore, I will bring them with me. 7pm!
Hooray for California and the internet!
love
Emma
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