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April 15, 2009
April 14, 2009
Senryu Tuesday #46 (Perfect Fifths On Sale Now)
Publication day
Final book in the series
I hope you like it
April 13, 2009
10 Things You Need To Know About Perfect Fifths: #1
1. It goes on sale tomorrow! And to celebrate, I’m giving away free autographed stuff.
Please buy Perfect Fifths in its first week on sale. That’s any time between Tuesday, April 14th and Monday, April 20th. Then:
a. Take a picture of yourself holding up your brand new hardcover copy of Perfect Fifths. Use it as your facebook or myspace profile pic, post it to your blog or anywhere you socialize online.b. Write a review and post it on facebook visual bookshelf, amazon.com, bn.com, goodreads and/orApril 10, 2009
10 Things You Need to Know About Perfect Fifths: #2
2. I’ve read Perfect Fifths about a dozen times by now. And not only am I not sick of it yet (which happens with authors and their own books, usually during the third or fourth round of proofreading and copy editing), there are parts that still surprise me. This is kind of crazy because I’m the one who made it all up.
I hope it surprises you. In a good way.
3. There is a “found” poem consisting entirely of phrases from the previous four books in the series. It begins with “marred kiss.” (I can’t t
April 8, 2009
10 Things You Need To Know About Perfect Fifths: #3
3. There is a “found” poem consisting entirely of phrases from the previous four books in the series. It begins with “marred kiss.” (I can’t tell you how the poem ends because that would be waaaaay too spoilery.)
4. Yes, the book spans a mere eighteen hours entirely in/around an airport. The main attractions are Jessica Darling and Marcus Flutie but fear not: All the beloved characters who are not at the airport–Bridget and Percy, Scotty and Bruiser, Len and Manda, Bethany and Marin, Paul Parlipi
April 7, 2009
April 6, 2009
10 Things You Need To Know About Perfect Fifths: #4
4. Yes, the book spans a mere eighteen hours entirely in/around an airport. The main attractions are Jessica Darling and Marcus Flutie but fear not: All the beloved characters who are not at the airport–Bridget and Percy, Scotty and Bruiser, Len and Manda, Bethany and Marin, Paul Parlipiano, Mac, Hy and (of course!) Hope–are essential to the story.
5. It takes place over eighteen hours in and around an airport. For research, I read Naked Aiport: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Revolutionar
April 5, 2009
April 4, 2009
10 Things You Need To Know About Perfect Fifths: #5
5. It takes place over eighteen hours in and around an airport. For research, I read Naked Aiport: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Revolutionary Structure. In it, I found this quote which served as the inspiration for the final scene of the series:
EXCUSE OUR APPEARANCES. WE ARE TEARING DOWN YESTERDAY TO MAKE ROOM FOR TOMORROW.6. Randomly opened to page 178:
“Jessica worries there are far too many hours to fill with amusing anecdotes and idle gossip, especially when Marcus is pushing for tr
April 2, 2009
10 Things You Need To Know About Perfect Fifths: #6
Randomly opened to page 178:
“Jessica worries there are far too many hours to fill with amusing anecdotes and idle gossip, especially when Marcus is pushing for truth and dare. And Marcus fears that time is too short for anything but, particularly after Jessica’s professed reluctance to play along.”
7. Fifty-six poems
written by Marcus and Jess
Here is one of his:
XXXIII. He writes
Everything we say
(what we don’t say, even more)
has double meaning
8. When I saw a photo of this painting in the newspaper,
