I just finished my new book
Posted in blog post on September 11th, 2010 by Merrill MarkoeHOORAY for me But at least on some level, a draft of it is finished. Its a book of essays. It includes a lengthy piece about my mother, for which I will be going to hell. The title of the book MIGHT be “Cool, Calm and Contentious.” although that makes me sound a little like Clint Eastwood. All I know is that now, suddenly, I am not swimming in three feet of loose paper. I write on the computer but in the final stages I find that I can’t see what, if anything, the book says unless I print it out. Pretty soon my already cluttered office looks like I am ready for a segment on hoarders.
Anyway: Wow. Free time. I think I will start making films. Until it catches up to me because free time only seems like free time BEFORE it becomes unemployment.
I’m so excited (and happy for you) that you finished your book. I can’t wait to read your essays, especially the one about your mother. When’s the book due to be published?
No humor writer makes me laugh out loud like you do. I read It’s My #8&%@*! Birthday once a year. It is the funniest book I have ever read. And reread.
–Suzanne
Thanks for saying that. Now I have a better reason to barrel on through the rest of the editing process.
Big huge congratulations. I absolutely can’t wait to read it. xoxo