I’m happy to see my book featured next to another Seal Press book, About Face: Women Write about What They See When They Look in the Mirror. I’ve had a great experience working with the lovely ladies of Seal Press and I feel honored to be on an imprint that puts out books by women, for women that hopefully make the world a better place. I’ve also been known to stop by the message boards of the 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet web site, so I’ll have to add their book, 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet: Because We’re All in It Together, to my “to read” list too. That list is getting kind of long, and I’m adding books to it faster than I’m reading. Too bad I never figured out how to read on the treadmill.

I want to apologize that I did not have this information for you guys sooner. If I’d known the book would be available internationally, I would have told my foreign readers to wait to buy it locally instead of paying to have it shipped overseas. You could have saved money on shipping and I would have saved my hand cramping up filling out bizarre custom forms. I want you to know that I’m genuinely sorry and hopefully the shipping costs were worth the two month head start you got on your neighbors. If it makes you feel any better, after Helen sent me pictures of her reading the book on a beach in Mexico, it occurred to me that my book has now traveled more places than I have. I wish my body could visit the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, but my words will have to suffice for now.

If you’re a techie, you might be happy to know you can also get the e-book edition of Half-Assed, for Kindle: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device. I saw one of these on a plane last month and now I wish I owned one just so I could see how my book looks on it.

The entry period for the viral video contest is now over. I will draw a winner as soon as I finish confirming entries. I’ll announce the winner on the blog when I do so. Thank you to every one who participated. As of this moment, my video has 6,566 views!

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.

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.

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

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.

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. The prize pack includes:

• A $25 gift certificate to Amazon.com
• A signed copy of Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir
• A signed galley copy. (Galleys are early uncorrected proofs that are sent to reviewers.)
• A Burt’s Bee’s gift basket
• My favorite kitchen gadget, the apple corer and slicer
• A Spaghetti Scepter from the PastaQueen

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.