new posts in all blogs
Viewing: Blog Posts Tagged with: Florinda, Most Recent at Top [Help]
Results 1 - 9 of 9
How to use this Page
You are viewing the most recent posts tagged with the words: Florinda in the JacketFlap blog reader. What is a tag? Think of a tag as a keyword or category label. Tags can both help you find posts on JacketFlap.com as well as provide an easy way for you to "remember" and classify posts for later recall. Try adding a tag yourself by clicking "Add a tag" below a post's header. Scroll down through the list of Recent Posts in the left column and click on a post title that sounds interesting. You can view all posts from a specific blog by clicking the Blog name in the right column, or you can click a 'More Posts from this Blog' link in any individual post.
You know how I'm always talking about Florinda?
(Florinda, Florinda, Florinda)
Well, there she is, all the way across the United States, at the Chronicle Books booth, talking to Lara Starr, Chronicle publicist, about whom I'm also often caught bragging.
The two of them, together. And me here.
And yet, even though 3,000 miles separate us, Florinda always makes me feel like I'm right there in the room with her. She makes me laugh. She tells me stories. She reads many books. She makes room.
Florinda was a key component in the
Going Over blog tour, with her fabulous
Q and A. That was (believe me) already going far beyond the call of duty, but yesterday, at the end of an uber long but good day, I received another gift from Florinda: this review of the Berlin book that she'd taken the time not just to read but to ponder.
They are
glorious words. I send you straight to her. Some 3,000 miles away from me, which is also the stretch of her smile.
Thank you, Florinda!
In the interest of making things a little less complicated, I'm launching a new Beth Kephart website today. It's not as robust as it someday will be. It doesn't sing to you, or dance the tango. But it's a simpler place to find out the Beth facts, and you can visit
here.Also today I'm celebrating my very dear friend, Florinda, who has kindly joined the
Going Over blog tour and is hosting this interview with me. Florinda is such a smart (and kind) reader. She is a truly dear soul, someone who means so much to me, as readers of this blog already know. She made an exception on her blog for me, and for this book, and I am so grateful.
Here we get the skinny on the original title for the book, my target readership, and what I want most people to know about this Berlin story. You also get a chance to win a copy of the book.
That's all
here.Thank you, sweet Florinda!
Wow. What a happy thing to learn from dear Florinda that
BookPage named
Handling the Truth a Top Ten Book for September. Thrilled about this, of course.
And full of gratitude.
The full list is
here.
<p>&amp;amp;lt;hr class="more"&amp;amp;gt;</p>
Look. I'm going to be honest with you. You book bloggers out there are bringing me to my knees in gratitude. You have no idea what your words, your enthusiasm, your deeply felt embraces mean—right now, always. Every single blog post takes time. Time to construct the thoughts, to find those links, to read the words through, to make them right, to get it all out there. Time away from something else (so many things) that might be done. I know how much time matters—how there is never enough of it—and I am so grateful that you have gifted me with so much of yours.
I speak of all of you out there who have been so supportive of You Are My Only, of this blog, of this odd book life of mine. And today I speak to Florinda of the fabulous 3Rs, who wrote this beautiful post just now. In honor of who she is, and of how she stood at my side at the BEA this past summer, and of all that she does as a book blogger and reviewer (her own blog was a long-list nominee for the BBAW), I am replaying a little video that we made during a happy moment this past summer. We had this conversation on behalf of the Armchair BEA initiative that has now been nominated as part of the 2011 Book Bloggers Appreciation Week.
Florinda, then and now, I thank you.
Many exquisite things trundle and waltz by my home on Memorial Day weekend. There is, for example, the annual carriage parade. There are the dogs of the famous dog cotillion. And then there are my fabulous, witty, smart, and loving neighbors—so entirely and brilliantly in love.
Exquisite things waltz into my world as well, and this morning I would like to send my heartfelt thank you to Florinda, for
this especially moving post about our time together at BEA. Caribousmom, I thank you, too, for including
You Are My Only in your
Book Buzz: Fall Reads; you've assembled an immaculate list of titles, and I'm so grateful to have my book included on that list.
I'm off to teach at Agnes Irwin today, while back in New York City, the book bloggers have gathered in force. A few days ago, as those of you who followed the Armchair BEA know, I had the chance to talk to Florinda while Elizabeth Law of Egmont USA videotaped our conversation. I re-post the video here, in celebration of the book bloggers I have come to know and love.
It may be true (I'm talking to
you, Florinda,
you) that I've never actually met Anna Lefler in person. But I have talked to this west-coaster countless times and for innumerable hours on the phone, shattered my fragile bones over
her genius blog funnies,
watched her perform on You Tube for the most sensational crowds (my own sensational snickering husband at my side), and been on this awed and grateful side of her steadying wisdom and stupendous generosity.
I've interviewed Anna, and I've read her books in progress, kept her cards and icons and treasures on my sill and near my heart.
It wasn't long ago that my friend called with some news that she can now make public: Anna Lefler has her first book deal! She was sought out, thanks to her riveting blog. She said yes. She plunged in with the professionalism, discipline, and completely lovably twisted eye she brings to all things under the tilted sun and orbed-out moon. And you will not have to wait long for your copy of a book every woman will soon have.
From
Publishers Marketplace:
Comedian and "Life Just Keeps Getting Weirder" blogger Anna Lefler's CHICKTIONARY: FROM A-LINE TO Z-SNAP, THE WORDS EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW, a humorous lexicon of the terms women use and what they're really saying when they use them, to Diane Garcia at Adams Media, for publication in October 2011, by Betsy Amster at Betsy Amster Literary Enterprises (World).
I'll admit: I've seen a few early entries. I'll admit again: I was sitting at the hair salon when Anna's most recent entry flew in over my phone. I read the final line to the ladies I was with. Here is what they, in unison, said:
Oh my gosh, that's going to be a bestseller!!!
Congratulations, Anna Lefler! I know I've never had a chance to give you a real-live hug. But I did see you floating down the street one day, high above the crowds. I took the picture here, so that I might someday say:
I knew her when. I was in her audience.
Yesterday, as I wrote below, I had the great privilege of interviewing Florinda for the
Armchair BEA event that is going on all this week long. My great thanks to Chris, Tif, The 1st Daughter, Chrisbookrama, Michelle, Amy, Pam, Emily, and Florinda herself, the organizers of this runaway-hit of a program, for also making room for
You Are My Only, which is due out in October, and for facilitating a giveaway of a signed book and poster. There will not be many such giveaways with this book, and so I encourage those who might be interested to head on over and
listen to what Florinda has to say about being a book blogger (and what I have to say about my love of and great appreciation for bloggers).
Please note that I donned my
Undercover stance with this interview, hiding, for the most part, behind my humidity unstraightened hair. This was not intentional, but I'm going to pretend that it is. I write fiction, after all. Or I do, at least some of the time, when I'm not teaching students how best to tell the truth.
Thanks to Elizabeth Law of Egmont USA for the great camera work.
By:
Beth Kephart ,
on 5/26/2011
Blog:
Beth Kephart Books
(
Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags:
Pop Culture Junkie,
Armchair BEA,
Rob Guzman,
Alison Weiss,
Alice La Plante,
Bermuda Onion,
Melissa Sarno,
Florinda,
Turn of Mind,
Egmont USA,
Elizabeth Law,
Ruta Rimas,
Booking Mama,
Add a tag
I left the house at 5 AM yesterday, and walked, in the breaking dark, toward the train. The carnival lights from the Devon Horse Show grounds were shining just for me.
I arrived early to the Javits Center and
took a walk first within the silence, then among the onslaught of crowds. Soon I was at the Egmont USA booth, interviewing the wonderful
Rob Guzman, part of the Egmont USA marketing team. (Later in the day I had the privilege of interviewing Egmont USA's
Alison Weiss.)
In impromptu fashion (under Rob's raised eyebrow) I began signing books right there at the Egmont booth, flashing my
spanking-new bookmarks whenever I could. It wasn't long before I was in the presence of Florinda, a beautiful book blogger and a member of the
Armchair BEA team. We had a conversation, Florinda and I, and, thanks to Elizabeth Law, our dialogue was captured for all of time on film. Check the Armchair BEA blog later today to see what Florinda and I had to say.
Elizabeth Law of Egmont USA was my guide throughout the morning; in the rush of my signing,
Florinda of The 3Rs took our photograph. Soon, were we joined by some beautiful people—librarians, teachers, readers, parents, and blogger friends. There I am with Kathy of
BermudaOnion (I finally met her and she's as lovely as I knew she would be) and
Congrats, Beth!!
Yes, Congrats