I spoke to Amy Guth this morning about our interview, and she is cool with interviewing in person this week when I come through town. Sweet. We’re going to meet outside the subway station near her apartment and then she knows of a cool coffee shop we can hang out in.
The timing seems, good, too. As she said to me just now on the phone that she has been getting a lot of crazy emails from people. Love letters, lust letters, fetish requests, and now, what seems like the threat of a boycott (Look at her blog for a letter. It’s so funny)! Isn’t that too funny? I think the DiVinci Code fucked everyone up and nobody understand fiction anymore. Man people are dumb…
Hey score, I’m going to be doing a little more webcontent. Not bad. The stripper I wrote webcontent for before liked it and referred a friend and so I’m writing content for some real estate guy’s site, which is pretty sweet.
And, my friend just scored a really awesome job in Chicago and is giving me a couple of bucks to take time off of work and help her move. The added perk of that, of course, is that I’ll be in Chicago, and can possibly convince Amy Guth to let me interview her in person instead of on the phone. I don’t know, maybe writers are funny about that kind of thing that actors and stuff, but she seems pretty cool, so maybe she’ll be on board.
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.
