Boy, this has been a blast.
Thanks so much for entertaining my stories and opinions over the past couple of weeks. It’s such a thrill to get this much instant feedback that I’m having a hard time taking the needle out of my arm.
I’ve made so many new friends. Thanks especially to Mark Frauenfelder, for grace and endurance as my line editor. And all my love to my partner, Jon Bailiff, for enhancing and abetting my single-minded determination to post, post, post without concern for any other daily affairs!
What’s new for me this year? In addition to The Erotic Treasury, I just released my first Kindle ebooks. If you’re curious how to enjoy ebooks, or make one, as an author, you’d probably enjoy my “Kindle-Krazy” how-to.
I’m your friendly neighborhood sewing columnist at Craft magazine, and you’ll be seeing my Valentine embroidery tips on the newsstands any day now. I’d love to take another sewing workshop with Sandra Betzina this winter, and of course I’ll continue to worship at the feet of my fiber-arts guru, Jill Sanders.
Blogging this year should be fun. Obama may have his controversial Inauguration, but I’ll be holding my own Sexual State of the Union address!
It’s been intriguing for me to see the Twilight explosion this season- how remarkable that the bestselling book of the year was directed toward female adolescent longings. The movie screenings were audience pandemonium, even in my own little town of Santa Cruz. It’s kismet, but I just turned in an illustrated erotic-lit anthology to Chronicle Books, coming out next fall, called The Quiver– which is decidedly more Baudelairean than Twilight, but filled with the same gothic perversions that intoxicate American literature at the moment.
Of course I’ll be continuing my weekly audio show, In Bed W/Susie Bright, at Audible. This week, I’m sharing a story from Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler on The Peril of the Jealous Husband. Please enjoy some free samples!- and here’s the cheapest way to subscribe once you become hooked.
Then there’s the memoir. Now that I am officially old and in the way (51 this year) I’m completing a memoir for Seal Press, which will be published in 2010.
If any of you have tips on how to run a daily blog and write a memoir at the same time while raising a family- send your advice to my address. Seriously, though, I’d love to hear from you anytime, especially if you have questions or suggestions about the memoir-writing adventure.
See you around… and I’ll always be at BoingBoing, faithful reader that I am, sipping coffee in the Comments.
Photo: Susie and her darling, “practically-perfect-in-every-way” daughter, Aretha.
(Susie Bright is a guest blogger)
Note from Mark: Thanks, Susie for your wonderful, enlightening, and entertaining guest blog entries. We are looking forward to have you join us again very soon!