Tag: Writing

  • 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…

  • Big Week, Big Day

    1. Success! We hit over 200 donations for the Dewey Donation System! 2. The show I was working on over the winter, Romantically Challenged, starring Alyssa Milano, premieres tonight on ABC after Dancing With the Stars. I believe in the next month they’re airing four of the six episodes we shot. 3. Going in Circles…

  • 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.

  • Yes! The Dewey Donation System is Back!

    Oh, boy. I have no web skills anymore, people. But what I do have is a stack of free copies of GOING IN CIRCLES and a desire to help out some libraries. Do you guys miss Dewey like I do? Okay, good. Because I put up a small contest for this week. Down and Dewey…

  • big book, little book.

    big book, little book.

    The mass market paperback version of the novel just arrived at my door. It is so wee! I didn’t expect it to be almost as thin as the trade paperback, I guess because the German versions of the novels have been so thick. Y’all, Germans love me. This mass market paperback was made specifically for…

  • Notes from a “lump” of Houston Sheraton Town & Country Stationery, circa 1990 or 91

    Just so you know, I got an email from 200-page boy, who got an email from one of you asking, “ARE YOU 200-PAGE LETTER DOUGLAS THAT PAMIE’S WRITING ABOUT?!?” Small, small world. He was writing to let me know that he does, indeed, still have that letter. My first book! (Speaking of books, the galleys…

  • no great genius

    I just found an Internet review of my first novel, Why Girls Are Weird, that may be my favorite blurb of all time: “it’s a simply written book of no great genius, but i lost count how many times i was laughing out loud. very entertaining.” My work here is done!

  • i know, i know. I KNOW.

    It isn’t that I’m trying to ignore pamie.com. I am in front of my computer every single day, but between the twitter account and the photography deadline, I feel like my life gets updated. I’m working on edits for the new novel, I’m developing a half-hour with a studio (read: Yo, I got a job!),…

  • I love a new ISBN…

    GOING IN CIRCLES Format: Trade Paperback Published: May 18, 2010 Dimensions: 384 Pages, 5.31 x 8.25 x 0 in Publisher: Simon & Schuster The following ISBNs are associated with this title: ISBN – 10:1416503862 ISBN – 13:9781416503866 From the Publisher: A heartbroken newlywed finds salvation in roller derby in this touching and hilarious new novel…

  • Cereal Killer

    You know the kind of funny where someone’s pissed off about something and it makes you laugh, and then the more that person goes on ranting the funnier it gets and by the end you’re like, holding your breath so you can hear what she’s saying instead of just laughing? It can happen when you’re…