New Day #116

This week I'm a guest blogger at Powells.com. Guest blogger. It sounds so friendly, doesn’t it? As in “be my guest” or “guest of honor.” Actually, it’s a polite way of saying “unpaid,” but let’s not quibble. If mega-successful authors like Susan Orlean and Christopher Moore work for free to publicize their books, desperately ambitious wannabes like myself can, too.

As the guest, I felt it only right that I bring a hostess gift. So I made chocolate chip cookies for the employees of Powells.com, following an old family recipe:

Go to Costco.
Purchase cookies.
Try not to eat them all.

It’s the Cindy McCain approach to homemaking. Then I dressed up like the cover of my new book, Attack of the Theater People, because, well, in terms of career planning, I adhere to the Jacqueline Susann method of flagrant self-promotion. Some people ask “What would Jesus do?” I ask “What would Jackie do?”

Not one employee asked me why I was dressed like the secret love child of Siegfried and Roy, though some seemed legitimately frightened to take a cookie.

Here I am in the break room with Jesus himself.



To read more about what I have to say about Jacqueline Susann, click here.

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