Free stuff! Free stuff! Now that I have your attention, I thought you’d like to know that the AOL Living blog That’s Fit is giving away a signed copy of my book. Go to their site and read this post to learn how you can enter. That’s Fit blogger Kristen was also kind enough to review the book a couple weeks ago and said I have a “wicked sense of humor.” Thank you, Kristen, and That’s Fit for running the giveaway!
A review of Half-Assed is included in the July/August edition of Women’s Health. If the $4.99 cover charge is too much for you, or you don’t feel like ducking into your local grocery store to flip to page 78, here’s a scan of the article (or at least my part, which is of course the most important part of the entire magazine):
I’m happy to share the page with two other bloggers turned authors (a trend I’m happy to see continuing): Jen Lancaster, who makes people snort milk (and possibly Chardonnay) onto their keyboards at Jennsylvania, and Stephanie Klein of Greek Tragedy who I’m excited to meet at the BlogHer conference this July. Jen wrote Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist’s Quest To Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, Or Why Pie is Not The Answer and Stephanie wrote Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp, two different and very worthwhile takes on fat and all that. They’re definitely worth checking out (after you finish reading my book first, of course). I haven’t read the other book reviewed, Confessions of a Carb Queen by Susan Blech, but I’ve added it to my “to read” list.
I taped a delightful interview with Robin Kall last night for her radio show, Reading with Robin. It will air at 7:00am tomorrow morning, Saturday, June 28 on WHJJ-AM in Providence, RI. You can listen to it live on the radio station’s web site here. Thanks to Robin for inviting me!
You can still win $25 at Amazon.com!
You’ve still got 4 days left to enter my Viral Video Contest and be entered to win a $25 gift certificate to Amazon.com, a Burt’s Bee’s gift basket, a free autographed book and a spaghetti scepter. (Do it for the spaghetti scepter.) Details are here.
Catch me in South Bend
I’ll be in South Bend, Indiana, holding court in the Barnes & Noble at 4601 Grape Road at 4pm on Saturday, June 28. I’m sold out of autographed copies on my book site, so this is one of the last times you’ll be able to score a signed copy unless you randomly bump into me on the street while carrying a copy.
Please spay and neuter your pets
It’s important to control the pet population…oh wait, sorry, this has nothing to do with me or weight loss. I’m just flashing back to the prime time edition of The Price is Right last night.
Autographed books are SOLD OUT! Thank you to everyone who bought a copy. It is because of you that the clerk at the post office said “How you doing?” to me three times. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. However, I had fun turning a corner of my apartment into a makeshift bookstore, printing postage labels on my inkjet, buying bubble envelopes in bulk, and filling out a dozen customs forms. (Okay, filling out the custom forms wasn’t fun.) I enjoyed being an entrepreneur and I am very appreciative of your support. Thank you!
From now on, if you wish to get an autographed copy you’ll have to catch me in person or send me a copy of your book with a self-addressed stamped envelope to:
Jennette Fulda
PO Box 90186
Indianapolis, IN 46290-0186
I’ll be chatting on the Maria Sanchez Show on KVTA AM-1520 today at 3:25pm PST (or 6:25pm EST) assuming I get my ass home from work on time. You can listen live at their web site http://kvta.com/ or on the air waves if you live in California.
Tomorrow, you can listen to an interview I already taped at HealthyLife.net with Faith Ranoli from 1-2pm PST (that’s Pacific Standard Time so it’d be 4-5pm Eastern Standard Time). Just click on the “Listen Live” button at the top of the home page at the appropriate time. If any of my coworkers are reading this, they probably just keeled over in shock at the idea that I could talk for an entire hour about anything. I’m sort of a quiet one.
ETA: Here’s a link to the nice 15-minute chat I had on the Maria Sanchez show.
I suspect doing interviews to promote a book is like developing a comedy routine. I keep throwing new material out there during every performance and if something goes over well it gets included in my routine. After awhile I’ve got a well-crafted performance that I can take on the road.
If any of you followed my blog book tour, you probably noticed I touch on many of the same points over and over again. I even use the same wording a lot or make the same little jokes. That’s because I’ve found what works and what gets across my message succinctly. And I’m not so brilliant that I can come up with something new and original for each interview. There’s also no need to. The point of all these interviews is to reach new people. Most of them haven’t heard me talk about my newfound love of rutabagas.
It does get old after awhile, which is why I particularly appreciate it when people do their research and ask me new questions. It sometimes leads me to new points which I can throw into my song and dance routine.
Contest! Woo-hoo! If you enjoyed the video above (and even if you didn’t) you can enter to win the Half-Assed Prize Pack in celebration of the release of my book, Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir
Interested? Find out how to enter here.
And if you bought a copy of the book, don’t forget to read about the Super Secret Bonus content you can access.
Today I’m happy to announce a promotional experiment I’ve been cooking up in my laboratory - Super Secret Bonus Content! If you bought a copy of my book, you can submit a ticket to access extra content including:
Details on how to apply are here. I know when I hear about an interesting book my first reaction is usually, “That sounds cool. I’ll go get that….from the library.” Because I’m cheap. And looking at the number of requests for my book at the local library, I’m not the only thrifty person in town. While I’m honored and grateful that so many people have given up hours of their lives to read the words I’ve written, I’d prefer it if they bought a copy instead of borrowed one. So I asked myself, what would make me buy a book instead of request it from the library? I would need some sort of extra incentive. Thus, the Super Secret Bonus Content was born. We’ll see how it goes. I reserve the right to redact the bonus content offer at anytime (if I determine it’s not worth the hassle), so get your entries in now.
I only have 8 autographed copies left for sale, so if that’s how you want to verify you bought a copy, you’d better click over to the order page soon.
Yesterday, Amazon.com was down for over an hour, severely impeding my ability to check my book rank every 5 seconds. According to a PC World article, the crash was probably caused by preorders for the release of the Metal Gear Solid 4 game bundle for PS3
When I first saw the page error, my first thought was, “Oh no, I hope this doesn’t affect book sales!” I make a lot of sales on Amazon, both of my book and of recommended products. The crash made me realize how dependent I am on them for this stream of income. They’re such stalwarts of the Internet that you never expect them to go down. It’s like not being able to get to Google. It’s unthinkable!
