June 23, 2006

• I made a funny

  Yesterday morning in the weekly breakfast meeting, which is T______ and another imprint with all of these company sales and production people (the closest thing we have to “suits”), I was talking about 2012.  It’s still the closest thing we have to a hit, and I’ve been called on to talk about it for the past few weeks.  I was talking about an appearance the author is making this weekend, and I said something along the lines of, “Daniel is talking at the Gaia Mind Festival in Pennsylvania this weekend.  I didn’t learn about it in time to set up any book-selling, but it’s a great place for him.  It’s one of those…it’s absolutely his crowd, they all smell like patchouli.”  I got a huge laugh.  After the fact, I was amazed that I’d been confident enough to just throw that in without much thought, and that it was so well-received.  I’m amazed every day that I’m something of a phenomenon around here.  I came out of nowhere to be The World’s Oldest Assistant and all of a sudden am pushing this weird book up, up and away.  I have two other books in the pipeline which I think can also be sleeper hits.

  
  

  Joe was surprisingly low-key in the couple of e-mails I got from him yesterday, not too chatty.  We’ve already exchanged a couple this morning because Ben asked me to try to set up a radio interview for him.  Joe always expresses gratitude for my help, but I’m not feeling the warm vibe any more.  Wonder what’s up.

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