Let’s see. I went to Bellingham and that was fun. I got to meet superfan Teecer, who was extremely sweet and had all my books, and superhero Jen, who was awesome (Thanks for the review, Jen!). Lots of people came to the book signing, a homeless man won my box of Kleenex, and someone in the audience asked if I ever thought about being a performer, which made my friend from college sitting in the back laugh his ass off. Continue reading
Tag: Interview
Live Chat with the Readers of Tomato Nation for Going in Circles
Today! 7:30 Eastern, 4:30 Pacific… I don’t know what time that is for you Australians. Over here on Sarah’s page I’ll be live-chatting with her readers, answering questions about Going in Circles. Come join in the fun!
Tomato Nation Read Along — Going in Circles
Move over, Oprah. Sarah Bunting’s starting up her own book club. Her readers voted and chose Going in Circles as their first selection. They spent the past few weeks reading and today they begin their discussion in this thread following Sarah’s review.
I will also be participating in a live chat with the readers of Tomato Nation on Wednesday 30 June at 8 PM ET. Check the site for more details. Hooray for Tomato Nation.
good reviews and me dorking out on someone else’s website.
I love largehearted boy. First of all, he says nice things about me:
Few writers are as funny as Pamela Ribon, who infuses her novels with satirical humor alongside honest glimpses into our most intimate relationships.
Going in Circles is her new novel, a work that blends divorce, heartbreak, roller derby, and friendship into one of summer’s most absorbing reads.
interview: The Big Idea | Whatever
What happens in this novel bears little resemblance to what happened in my own. This is not a memoir. But the emotions the main character is struggling with that cause her to believe she might actually be going crazy — that’s where this story comes from. Because when things are in limbo like that, when your life seems stuck on pause, every question appears to have sixteen thousand equally plausible answers. When I was struggling with my own answers, I never seemed to have the ones people were looking for. I think it’s because human beings have a natural, very healthy, instinct to avoid pain. Going through a divorce or signing up for roller derby says to the world, “I am about to get hurt. A lot. Seemingly willingly.” Who could understand that?
I’m always proud to be a part of anything John Scalzi‘s doing, and I’m flattered to be the featured writer in today’s The Big Idea.
I’ll tell a Scalzi story, for those of you who have wandered over here from Whatever. Continue reading
Jacket Copy: LA Times
The great people at the LA Times (Thanks, Carolyn!) ran an interview with me to promote the upcoming Festival of Books over at their blog Jacket Copy.
g-l-a. m. o-r. o-u-s.
“I like the way my face looks when I have my hair swept up. That sounds so narcissistic! How do people answer these interviews?”
The thing is, I just shouldn’t do interviews while waiting for my coffee to kick in. So many run-ons. And I think I accidentally slammed Gwen Stefani, which is not what I meant at all. And Bette Davis likes brown mascara, not brown/black. I knew that. Why did I say something else yesterday?
I am no beauty expert!
radio archive: WGN/ The Nick Digilio Show
Nick discusses the Writers Guild of America strike with television writers Jeffrey Stepakoff (Billion-Dollar Kiss book), Pamela Ribon (Samantha Who?), and Sara Hess (House). (11/10/07) (:28:04)
[That weird pause over calling me pamie is because they cut the joke I made referring to earlier in the broadcast. I swear, I didn’t just go all silent like an asshole!]
chris alonzo saves the night.
Man, I’m grumpy tonight, even though I think the radio interview went well (and THANK YOU to the Teamster who called in to shout “YOU GO!” and say they were behind us all the way.), and I spent a few hours at the Guild getting ready for next week’s picketing–
(AMPTP! PLEASE COME BACK TO THE TABLE AND NEGOTIATE!)
— and I’ve still got emails to send to my team and blah, blah, blah strike strike strike, and I got all angry at Perez Hilton from my couch, which is just the dumbest temper tantrum I’ve had in a while because come on, so it was a lovely change of pace to read Chris’s post on how God’s been a pretty lame screenwriter with my life these days, and laugh my ass off.
Thanks, Chris. I needed that.
(more updates to come. i just need a mini-break.)
“Oh, Dear” alert.
I will be on Nick Digilio’s show on WGN Radio of Chicago (along with the talented Jeffrey Stepakoff and the incredible Sara Hess of House and Deadwood) Saturday, November 10th, at 9pm Central (7pm Pacific), to talk about the WGA strike.
Oh, I’m so frightened about how live it all is. Live radio? Yikes!
You can listen to me try to make sense here.