Pretty Maids All In A Row

I didn’t want to post it in case it fell through, but it seems like a sure thing, so I’ll share!

I just emailed the third editor I needed to talk to for my interview with Amy Guth, which was her publisher. The first two I emailed with said she was “delightful” to work with, one even going so far as saying she was “one of the few writers who isn’t a crazy drama-queen”, which is consistent with my experience with her so far.

See, I am conducting one really long interview with her. I’m editing it and Girlistic has agreed to run a feature-length interview piece, then Off Our Backs is interested in taking it on spec. I ran all of this by Guth and she is fine with it.

I sort of know her from a long time ago, so I feel comfortable about jumping into a project of this size with someone who is reaching the profile that she is. She used to be managing editor for a magazine I wrote a tiny little piece of crap for. Seriously, it was a piece of crap. It was a tiny little nonfiction article about going to Graceland. See? I told you it was a piece of crap. Anyway I contacted her when I heard about her book and see remembered me (or pretended to remember me, haa) an agreed to let me interview her. I talked to her a few days ago to talk about what sort of stuff I wanted to ask her and she seemed cool with everything, so, we press on.

I’m doing it by phone, so I bought this cool little suction cup thing that plugs into a recorder and tapes the conversation. Totally cool so I don’t have to freak out to write it all down as she is talking. And, having talked to her a couple of days ago, the woman talks really fast.