Susane Colasanti's Blog, page 75

I've been avoiding my annual eye exam. I'm afraid of the part where they puff air in your eye. Technically, it's called the puff-of-air glaucoma test. A more accurate description would be the hurricane-strength-wind test. The machine even looks scary, all hulking in the corner, waiting to be the last part of your exam so you can't even get it over with right away. Last year, my optometrist let me hold my finger in front of the puff of air first to confirm that, indeed, it's only a small puf

I still haven't absorbed last Friday's good news. How can I be on a Top Ten Bestseller list with J.K. Rowling and Neil Gaiman? They clearly have me confused with someone else.

Or maybe I'm hallucinating. That's the kind of thing that happens when you've been scrutinizing copyedits for days. I'm obsessed with details, so I can agonize over a word choice for way longer than I should. Or whether a certain comma interrupts the dialogue flow. One detail I'm really happy about is that smiley face

Take Me There is a bestseller.



I have not fully absorbed this yet. Last week, Take Me There made the Heartland Indie Bestseller List. This is the list compiled from independent booksellers' reports in the midwest.

Dude. It's unreal.

I mean, there's my book with Markus Zusak and Sherman Alexie and Sarah Dessen (who has three books on the list - you rule, Sarah!). The complete list is here.

This is some serious indie love. Thank you, thank you, thank you indie booksellers! And ultimate tha

Thanks for all of your excitement about Something Like Fate! I've gotten several emails from book reviewers asking about advance copies. Actually, it will be a while until the galleys are printed. I'm just about to go over the copyedits, so we're still in the process of polishing the manuscript for greatest possible shine factor. If you're a book reviewer who has a blog or other site and would like to receive a galley of Something Like Fate, you can send me the link to your site and your mai

Happy First Moon Landing 40th Anniversary! How are you celebrating? I'm going for a Firecracker Popsicle later. Those are the ones that are red, white, and blue and look like rocket ships. They are just so refreshing. In fact, a box of Firecracker Popsicles is the first thing I'm going to put in my freezer when I move to a bigger apartment and get to have a refrigerator with a freezer. It's been a long six years with no freezer, particularly in the summer when you want something icy. Ah,

It may finally be sinking in that it is, in fact, July. It's day two of hot and humid, which is only slightly more tolerable than cold and windy. Everybody knows that I don't do winter. I also don't do uncomfortable heat conditions. I guess I'm just not into extremes when it comes to weather.

Since I'm enjoying the Great Indoors today, I've decided to post some vintage Sesame Street for your viewing pleasure. This is the last in a series featuring the Yip-Yip Martians. In this clip, the Yip

Earlier this week, I was in one of those situations where my neighbor forgot to turn his alarm off before leaving for Europe. So every morning at 5:00 (or maybe 4:00 - I was too groggy to tell time, even on my digital clock), his alarm would go off and I got to wake up super early. Fun times! It was one of those alarms that get angrier the longer you don't turn them off. It would start of all normal, like be-da-lee-dee...be-da-lee-dee. But then it would get all loud like EH-EH-EH. For an h

The most amazing reading ever went down in Chicago this weekend and I missed it. Laurie Halse Anderson and Sarah Dessen did a bookstore appearance together! Were you there? If you were, I am totally jealous of you. And everyone else who got to go.

Distracting myself with other fun times just wasn't the same. I saw Judah Friedlander and some other funny neighbors at Stand Up NY. Judah is hilarious. He has this thing where he's all throwing down karate challenges and drinking shark tears. I

Here in New York, there's always something interesting going on. This is a welcome change from growing up in The Middle of Nowhere, New Jersey, where nothing interesting ever went on. Like, ever.

These things happened recently in NYC, courtesy of New York magazine:
During a massive food fight, staff at a high school called the police for backupA man who had been impersonating his dead mother for six years in order to collect her Social Security was arrestedThere was a runaway ponyTwo balloon art

This sign was hanging in the deli section of a local grocery store:

Attn: Everyone
Every night the Chix wall
must be Full...and
covered with Plastic...no no
Questions Asked!!!
What does this mean?

Some hypotheses:

1. Cheese was misspelled.
2. It's referring to the place with all the chicken.

Other possibilities?