Sunday, May 27, 2007

NEW BOOK!

So I've started thinking about my new book. "Started" isn't really the right word as I've been tossing around an idea for the last year. But it's summer and this weather (and sitting in a coffee shop with my laptop) makes me think of 2 summers ago when I was finishing writing I Don't Want to Be Crazy.

It's been hard to get motivated--I've never written fiction and it seems daunting to create an entire world, that includes believable characters . . . but I think that I'm finally ready to start writing (that means getting a sample to my glorious editor to see if he likes it).

One thing that keeps me from starting to write (ok, it's really moslty plain old procrastination) is that I have no name for my main character. It's really hard to find a name for her. Got any ideas of a good name for a 16 year old girl? Post them in the comments section or email me at samanthaschutz@hotmail.com.

So I suppose I should say what I'm writing about. Would that somehow jinx me? OK, all I'll say now is that it's about a girl who lives next door to a cemetery.

Will it be prose or verse, you ask? I'm not sure, but I am leaning toward verse.

I've been a crappy blogger up until now, but I'll keep you all up to date on how the writing is going.

OK. Time to brainstorm about my cemetery-girl....
The paperback is coming! The paperback is coming!

The paperback edition of I Don't Want to Be Crazy will be out this August.

It's only $7.99
288 pages!
229 poems!

Order it now!

http://www.amazon.com/I-Dont-Want-Be-Crazy/dp/0439805198/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-1753127-9961647?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180292560&sr=8-1

Free podcast of me reading from I Don't Want to Be Crazy

Listen to a reading I did at KGB. It's very NY--you can even hear the occasional fire truck go by!