Monday, May 07, 2007

Now this is how....

.... to publicize your short story collection.

Noonebelongsheremorethanyou.Com

6 comments:

tafka PP said...

Where's the bottom of her fridge?

Tania Hershman said...

excellent question? She's nuts, isn't she? Love it.

Vanessa Gebbie said...

er...

one part of me loves it. The other says... why is she doing this?

So... I havent got a single idea of this writer, or what she writes... but the fridge thing, the gas hob thing, her approach, tells me that she writes light, chick lit, froth, and I wouldn't be interested in it.

It could be that she is a wonderful writer outside this genre... but on this performance alone, I wouldn't bother to find out.

So... has it worked as a marketing exercise?

V

Tania Hershman said...

She definitely doesn't write chick lit and froth - but I only know that because I know who she is already. She wrote and directed this wonderful film called My, Myself and Everyone We Know. or something like that. You're right, V, this doesn't help the uninitiated!

T

Unknown said...

I saw this a while ago on someone else's blog, it's cute, but I find myself disappointed to read on and discover rave reviews from Dave Eggers and so on. Not quite an unknown debut, rather a "performance artist", "film maker" and "writer." I don't know why that should bother me, I suppose it seems more studiously kooky than I at first supposed it to be.
Now I find it manipulative and studiedly quirky.

Vanessa Gebbie said...

well put. 'studiedly quirky' is right. Its not unthinking, is it. It's a bit 'look at me, Im incredibly wacky and ever so clever!'

And IM glad youve said she is good, cos I would have written it off as a fading chicklit stunt!

v