Even though the reading was rescheduled, they did this crazy interview with me in BU today…I figured, when reading with people who are so esteemed – and having no real cred myself – I had one of two choices:

1. a.  Try and sound “writerly”.
2. b.  Be myself.

Yeah, I chose B.  And yeah, a writer who uses the term “clown fetish” in the first paragraph of their interview?  Literary “star” indeed.  If you use the term “star” ironically, I mean.  

Literary Stars Shine – High Before Homeroom author to read at Faculty Reading

But here’s someone I really think is a star….my deijile boyfriend, Thomas Warming.  He’s got a kickass new blog that links to his website and it talks all about his process and has some of the new projects he’s working one, a few of which I’ve pasted excerpts of below…my man (insert girly sigh) is brilliant.

And did I mention hot?  I’m sure I did at some point.

Look how proud I am

THOMAS WARMING:  THE BLOG

a brief preview:

And in case you were ever curious about the obsession with Uh-Oh, Monkey!, i.e. Uh-Oh Monkey goes to the Jungle Room:

Now, all is finally going to be revealed…Uh-Oh Monkey is, in fact, an iconic toy by legendary Danish designer Kay Bojesen that is being released on the world again through top design company Rosenthal…and monkey is just the beginning of the animal takeover! And it all begins with this book.

Soon there will be a monkey takeover of THE WORLD!!!!!

Monkey is loose...watch your back!

Well, we went to Boston for my reading and got completely snowed in…the reading was cancelled (probably rescheduled for April, I’ll update you guys on that)…and the city was such a snowy, slushy mess…but, crazy enough, I kinda had a blast!  My dad and Jefferson came to town for the reading, and we all got to hang out instead!  Pics from our many misadventures:

Dad bonds with a dog in the hotel lobby...a chick tells me, "You're dad is the coolest guy EVER!" So true.

I'm a unicorn!!!!

Jefferson is an even PRETTIER unicorn!!!!

Yeah, I lived in Boston for several years...and I STILL fall for the "monster lobster holding utensils" tourist propaganda...seriously, it was me and two five year olds watching in utter AWE"

Thomas is a Sox fan (that's for you, Mr. Epstein)

The boys need to rest after doing NOTHING all day

Have I mentioned my family is talented?  Yeah, I guess I have…and I’m gonna keep doing it.  ’Cause they are.

My sister-in-law Carla is a pretty damn awesome…she’s an absolutely adorable sweetheart (and she’s little…seriously, she’s even shorter than me…not by much, but a little)…and at the same time she’s this hardcore television producer AND a kickass mom to my two perfect (and also hilarious) nephews Calder and Caleb.  So take that, you Sex & The City wannabe bitches…Carla is what you all WISH you were!  PS  I know this post is gonna embarrass her…too bad!  (love you, Carlie!)

Carla and Calder

Anyway, she’s produced all these  great (and seriously funny) reality TV shows…and now she’s got a new one she produced and created called A Stand Up Mother…and no, I’m not a mom, but I can say after years of being a nanny that it is about time someone told the truth – the hilarious, difficult AND crazy – about the world of motherhood.  And I’m not talking faux-reality-show-mamas like Camille Grammar complaining about how busy she is with her FOUR NANNIES.

So of course I gotta give Carla a shout out, ’cause this show represents her as a person…it’s about funny mothers…and, well, she’s a mom and one of the funniest chicks I’ve ever met, so there you go!

Check it out:

more info here

And watch the preview:

I’ve been invited to read at the Boston University Annual Faculty Reading with a list of… ummm…impressive writers.  To say the least.  And I’m completely honored – not to mention, kinda flabbergasted – that I was invited to read with these rockstar writers.

And my Dad has a new book coming out!  With a chapter by my mom!  Read about it here.  And click below to order it!  PS This is only one of a zillion times I’m gonna plug this…damn, my parents and I all have books to hock on Amazon at the same time?  SURREAL. (I’m proud!)

And my good friends, documentarian Tao Nørager and Academy Award Winning editor Wiebe van der Vliet have a facebook fanpage for their amazing documentary about fashion designer Andrew MacKenzie, which will have a  world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival January 31st:

Kristen Melillo contacted me because she wrote a review of HBH for one of her classes at Salem College (she’s a creative writing major, check out some of her stuff, she’s good!):

Will I has a new promo for his book…he’s so cool!