Congrats to my buddy Allison Winn Scotch on her new book deal announced in Publishers Marketplace today. Look here. Significant deal, folks. Allison is a smart business mind and is steadily building herself a career here. Each book makes her more and more money and continues to create her future success.
Which totally makes me want to keep going on my book and not get sidetracked watching Office and 30 Rock and tons of television that keeps my brain busy so I don’t have to think about my writing. This is called mid-Nano fatigue. We’re all hovering at 20-25k words (I’ve written and then cut tons of pages, so I’m not making any headway) and we’re tired. I keep wishing people happy birthday on Facebook (more than one time) and yesterday just numbly went through my to-do list like an autobot: call this person, file these taxes, mail that paperwork, finish those chapters, email that editor until it was late last night and I was done. I have a similar list for today.
But we’re heading out early today to go out of state to help a friend move into a new place. Should be fun. The rains have stopped a bit and so we won’t be driving through flooded areas, at least I don’t think. I’ll be driving while hubby and his friend play Mario Kart on our car’s dvd screen. They had a test run last night and I got pictures, but I’ll spare you. It’s two guys in the backseat with headsets on, screaming as they both stare up at a very small screen. I hope I can drive over a mountain in the dark with these two yelling constantly. I may have to drown them out with some really loud Kanye West (they hate Kanye West with a passion).
In reading news, I’m reading a book on Steve Jobs called Inside Steve’s Brain, by Leander Kahney. This one.
Publisher’s Weekly wrote of this book, “Throughout his storied Silicon Valley career, Apple CEO and Pixar
Studios founder Steve Jobs has been labeled, among other things, an
egomaniac, a Zen Buddhist, a business mastermind, a sociopath and a
music mogul. Blogger, author and Wired News editor Kahney, who has
chronicled Apple in previous books (The Cult of Mac), attempts to plumb
the depths of Jobs’s prodigious mind in this engrossing biography. The
author devotes much time to the sensational aspects of Jobs’ life,
including his demeaning and ferocious interactions with employees, his
relentless high-mindedness and fanatical attention to detail, clearly
demonstrating how his tyrannical and perfectionist impulses have have
shaped the award-winning designs and consumer-friendly products that
have made Apple a juggernaut. Though it doesn’t penetrate the Mac man’s
psyche too deeply, and sections on tangential figures like Apple design
guru Jonathan Ive and Apple Store visionary Ron Johnson can meander,
those searching for a telling portrait of Jobs’s management style and
its impact on Apple will not be left wanting.”
It’s interesting, actually. Who knew Jobs wanted to retrofit every first-generation iPod with a device that clicked when you attached your earphones? That’s the megalomanic part of Jobs, but that doesn’t come out too often to me. I see a freaking genius of a man who had and does have such a vision for Apple’s success that there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight yet.
Have you gone into an Apple store lately and played with the machines? If not, you should. It more fun than a candy store and better for your waistline, but not necessarily your pocketbook.
Happy weekend!
Comments on this entry are closed.