Please go watch the book trailer for THE SKY ALWAYS HEARS ME. It’s incredible--thank you ten tons, Madison Meyer, and thank you Dad and Kjell for your photos and your songs.

How bad is it that it’s appeared on other people’s blogs but not my own??? I am digitally a sad case. I have been deep in revisions for book #2, so lots of things have gotten pushed to the side.

No more! Digital promotion tools, here I come.

Tags: audience, digital world

Last night we went to the new TRANSFORMERS movie. I have never been such an un-target audience member in my life. Wow. Why, do you ask, was I not a target audience member?

Here’s one reason. She’s beautiful, but I’m married and not full of testosterone.



Here’s another reason:


I’ve never really been a truck girl.

It wasn’t a bad film. Parts of it were funny. But the jokes weren’t engineered for me, the music wasn’t picked for me, nothing was for me. But that’s perfectly OK--it *shouldn’t* be for me. I’m not their target.

I have to say, though, I wouldn’t mind having a guardian car with a humorous personality:


The only way that movie could have been more male-oriented is if it had smells. Eau de Sweaty Locker Room Clothes would have made it perfect.

Tags: reviews, audience