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So I walk in the park every morning. I've been doing that ever since I quit my last job as a lawyer (Before that, I walked from the train station to my office, instead of taking the bus). Up until recently, I walked from 6:15 until around 7:00, but this year, I've been taking my daughter to the bus stop at 6:40, so I walk from 6:40 until about 7:15. This has caused some confusion because the people I used to see walking before 6:40 think I'm slacking off and have taken to remarking that th...

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I'm a sentimental sort, the type who dislikes change. So it is with mixed feelings that I contemplate the demise of Kirkus reviews. We had a love-hate relationship. The end of Kirkus is like the death of an ex-boyfriend who was kind of a jerk, but with whom one has a few fun memories. Like, I'm glad I didn't marry the guy, but that doesn't mean I wish him dead. Same with Kirkus.

My first review was from Kirkus, and as regular readers of this page already know, it was bad. I remember getting...

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Hey, if you're on Facebook, and you like Beastly, the book, become a fan of Beastly, the movie. This is CBS's fanpage for the movie. They're trying to get 3,000 fans and say they will be unveiling some new stuff when they do.

By the way, the Facebook fan page someone just started for me is not my page (like, I don't have any control over it), but it's nice that someone started one.

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I've been reading a lot of message boards, Twitters, etc. (I am not on Twitter, so don't look for me; My husband is, and he has Beastly as a search, so I get to see every single tweet that even uses the word, Beastly in another context) , and I've seen a lot of people who are worried that CBS is going to "ruin" the book in their movie version.

My message to my fans: Thank you SO much for loving my book enough to worry about it. That is super-flattering, and I'm very grateful that you love th...

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Barring any unforeseen breaking news in the entertainment world, the theatrical trailer for Beastly will be on Entertainment Tonight, tonight.

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Titles under consideration for my new novel.  The publisher wants something COMMERCIAL.  The book is about Johnny, who works in a shoe repair shop and dreams of becoming the next Jimmy Choo.  Victoriana, a princess who is a cross between Paris Hilton and Princess Caroline, asks him to complete a quest for her:  A witch has changed her brother into a frog and set him loose in the Florida Keys.  As Johnny looks for the frog (traveling by way of a magical cloak), he comes across numerous other e...

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Squee!  There's new footage from the Beastly movie posted on YouTube.  It has some of the same stuff from the ET feature, but also a long bit from the first scene, and you can see the greenhouse set from the movie, which we visited when I was there.  If you don't blink, you'll see Neil Patrick Harris too!

Btw, does anyone know how to embed the YouTube footage on Livejournal?  You used to be able to send it directly from YouTube to LJ, but now, they offer it for Facebook and Twitter, but no Liv...

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CBS Films has released a new, more detailed, photo of Alex Pettyfer's makeup for Beastly.  It appears on JustJared.com.  



The movie comes out in July, 2010 (not February, as some of the Jared commentors are inaccurately stating). 

We got to see the makeup when we visited the set in July.  It was designed by Tony Gardner, who did John Travolta's hilarious look in Hairspray.   While on set, we got to meet Jaime Kelman, who did Alex's makeup every day.  He's worked on a lot of projects involving...

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