Andrea Seigel's Blog, page 2
November 8, 2010
October 16, 2010
Grief
Tomorrow is technically the year anniversary of my dad's death, except it feels more like today because it happened on a Saturday and probably the only potentially bullshitty spiritual thing I believe in relationship to my dad's death was about...
October 5, 2010
Candy Spelling Can Eat My Wrapping Dust
I've been away from the blog because we've been moving into our new place, and you know, moving takes a lot of emotional energy and at the end of each day, all you really feel like doing is watching people...
September 14, 2010
My Book In Your Bed
My new book, The Kid Table, is out today. I think it's good. I think it's enjoyable. I see other authors announcing their books like, "Buy my book so you have something to use when you get diarrhea," and I...
September 3, 2010
You're As Young As Your Newest Artificial Part
Just as my essay on living in the servants' quarters of the Zane Grey mansion goes up on Writers' Houses, I'm packing to leave the apartment. There's a lot of sadness about the coming move because this is a truly...
August 23, 2010
The Final Countdown
Just a reminder that the pear thong contest closes tomorrow morning (for details, see the post below this one). Someone's already taken the approach of writing an essay that kicks off with how he has little to no interest in...
August 13, 2010
Hardcover On A Hard Body
Here ye, here ye, aye am announcing a new contest in which I'm giving away one hardcover copy of my forthcoming YA novel, The Kid Table, which will be in stores in a month. The last giveaway for the galleys...
August 3, 2010
Rub A Dub Dub, Unsettling Family In A Tub
There are a lot of ways you could stage a family photo shoot, and "in the bubble bath" is just one of them. If you were to crop the leftmost 75% of the following picture, you'd have a soapy, whimsical...
July 23, 2010
The Trailer Everybody's Been Waiting for, Besides The Harry Potter One
Making my very first foray into iMovie yesterday, I created a high-tech book trailer for The Kid Table that I think really captures the pathos and emotion of the novel. I just hope the producers of Salt and Tron don't...
July 11, 2010
Read The Soul Of This Guy, Part 2: It Spoke.
By Saturday afternoon, I was worried that the keyboardist's soul wasn't singing loud enough because no one had even intuited the right band. I got a lot of Michael Bolton numbers and a lot of Barry Manilow and it was...
