Susan Beth Pfeffer's Blog, page 45

Nothing Is Gonna Keep Me From Seeing Adam Lambert

I mentioned in my last hasty blog post that my mother was having a mini-crisis. She still is.

Maternal mini-crises are very time consuming. I visited her Tuesday and threatened to take her to the hospital, and I visited her Wednesday, on my way to New York City to see my friends Christy and Joyce (the three of us talked little but mother issues at dinner) and demanded that she eat lunch (which it turns out she didn't), and then yesterday morning, as the mini-crisis escalated, I took her, at her d

A Short, Albeit Not Necessarily Sweet, Post

I spent the day going through the copyedited version of This World We Live In, my least favorite part of writing a book, and no sooner had I finished, then I had a mother mini-crisis to deal with. I'm going into New York City tomorrow to see my friends Christy and Joyce. We've been best friends since freshman year in college, but Christy lives in LA, so it's rare for the three of us to get together.

That's to explain why I may sound cranky and why I won't be posting tomorrow when I wouldn't be qu

Come Visit Me At Moonlight, Lace & Mayhem!

I have the privilege of guest blogging at a great site, Moonlight, Lace & Mayhem today.

Mostly I talk about how I try hard not to work on weekends.

But alas, today is Monday, and the copy edited version of This World We Live In is currently sitting on my kitchen counter, waiting for me to deal with it.

By the time I've finished, I'm sure I'll feel like mayheming the copy editor!

Anyone Have A Good Name For A Trilogy?

I got an email today from my wonderful UK publisher. I'd think she's wonderful under any circumstance, but since she said the following in her email, I think she's both wonderful and incredibly insightful:

I think you've done a brilliant job in it of combining the characters from the previous two books, and succeeding in ramping up the tension to near-unbearable levels for the third time. This is an awesome achievement. I am very excited about our plans for the trilogy.

When I wrote Life As We Kne

Scooter Has His Surgery

He'll never be the daddy of little baby Scooters .

For those who want to see how much he's changed since entering Jake Barnes territory, here's Scooter before and Scooter after. Bring on the bullfights. Scooter is ready!

Why I'm Glad I'll Be Retiring Soon (More About Money)

I'm one of the few people around who likes Mondays.

Since I'm self-employed, I choose when I'm going to work, and therefore Monday isn't necessarily the start of a workweek for me. I've been known to plow through a weekend, just so I'll be finished by Monday. Or I could start a job on a Tuesday. So there's no reason for me to dread Mondays.

I've been represented by two literary agencies in my career. The first took care of me from my 4th book through my 73rd; the second for the three books that fo

And Now A Brief Commercial Message

I was going to write a cogent, thought provoking blog entry about money, but the heck with all that. I'd rather spend it than think about it.

There was a message waiting for me when I got back from getting my teeth cleaned. My beloved Deep Discount called to tell me they're having their semi-annual 25% off sale on their DVDs.

Type in the code word Blue. Generally speaking, they only let you do one order at the discount price, but they also frequently have ads with different code words if you know

He Knew How To Pronounce "The Year Without Michael" Also

I had the pleasure last night of meeting James Patterson. Jim (or as I prefer to call him, Mr. Patterson) introduced me at a fundraising dinner where he was the headliner and I was the person who spoke after him.

I pulled out my handy dandy camera and filmed him introducing me, but the sound didn't turn out very good. You can hear him say "Susan Pfeffer" (pronouncing my name correctly, I'm delighted to report), but that's about the only thing you can really make out, so I'm not going to post the

Numb With Numbers

I got an email this morning at my lovely new AOL address, telling me that my blog was ranked #192 at bookblips.com and that this was a particularly spectacular accomplishment. They congratulated me and everything and told me if I slipped some magic invisible formula into a brand new blog entry, even greater things would happen.

I could never resist invisible. My brother used to write with invisible ink and I always wanted to know what he'd written (nothing good about me, I'm sure). So here goes w

We Have A Cover!

Because I don't know how to attach a PDF (or what a PDF is for that matter) to my blog, I printed the cover on my dandy printer and attached it with needles (I couldn't find any pins) to my green chair and took photographs of it.

I know how to attach photographs, with and without needles.
The odds are when the book is published, the cover may look a little, oh I don't know, slicker, but in the meantime, I'm thrilled and can't wait to show it off.
So here's the cover for This World We Live In (by N