Stephanie Dolgoff's Blog, page 18
August 26, 2010
MFHL made the NY Times extended bestseller list!!!
It's really hard to leave me speechless, but for once in my 43 years, I've got nothing to say but THANKS to all of you wonderful readers who went out and bought MY FORMERLY HOT LIFE and helped it make the list.
My incredible editor Marnie–that's her holding the Formerly Wild sign in the book trailer–told me it's #32, and although she's never lied to me before, naturally I had to tell her to SHUT UP and STOP LYING because how could she not be lying? But she wasn't.
So thanks, and please...
August 25, 2010
KUSI-TV in San Diego
This book reviewer on Good Morning San Diego recommends MFHL for anyone over 35. Kinda like a mammogram, except funnier. It's the last book she reviews–see it on the bottom of the pile?–toward the end of the clip.
August 24, 2010
Adventures in Book Whoredom, part MXVI
When we last left our heroine (almost wrote heroin…gives you a sense of my stress level–OMG, Mom, JOKE!) she was slutting herself out in every imaginable way to get the word out about her book. Except the most obvious way, not least of all because no one has asked her to. (Mom, really, another joke–where's your sense of humor?)
Stephanie, a.k.a., Gigantic Book Whore, has written dozens of guest blog posts, cross promoted her blog, tweeted, Facebooked, and even made up tank tops to hand out to ...
Yo, you got some fries to go with that shake?
NOTE: These guys harassed no one, but they represent the kind of gauntlet I would have avoided back in the day.
One of the examples of how life changes when you dip your toe into Formerly territory that really resonates with people is how when you're in your 20s, bonehead guys fall all over themselves to drool obscene things about your body and make vile sucking noises as you walk by. Now, by contrast, all you hear is that sitcom sound of crickets chirping to indicate abject nothingness.
The...
August 23, 2010
She Takes on the World
This is a nice little Q&A series called In Her Heels, which is funny because heels are pretty much a thing of the past for me. So: In Her flats.
August 22, 2010
In which I almost get to make out with Charles Dickens
(This was written for Powell's, the Oregon-based bookseller.)
"There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one."
I first read Great Expectations back in ninth grade or so, and while I don't remember exactly, it's safe to say that the above lines went over my head — whoosh! — along with pretty much anything else that didn't have to do with boys, Rick ...
These are the good old days
In which I almost get to make out with Charles Dickens.
(This was written for Powell's, the Oregon-based bookseller.)
"There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one."
I first read Great Expectations back in ninth grade or so, and while I don't remember exactly, it's safe to say that the above lines went over my head — whoosh! — along with pretty...
Listen to the Gayle King interview
Nice chat about women and moving into Formerly territory on Gayle King's radio show–you can listen HERE.
August 20, 2010
Sweet stuff from TresSugar.com
Rhymes with chick
Funny in that yeah-not-so-funny-at-all-actually way that the ultimate insult to a guy is to call him the crude term for female genitalia.
Not the one that rhymes with a delightful spongecake your grandmother maybe baked in a ringed pan, or the one named after the industrious flat-tailed critter that builds dams out of twigs and branches, but the one that, whenever innocent toddlers use it to refer to the family cat, their adolescent siblings snort OJ out their noses and then feel, like...
