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On Friday, July 26th, I ignited. No, not my hair or eyelashes (although that too did occur once upon a time, but shall not be recounted without a glass of wine. Make that a bottle.) No, "ignited" as in, set my two great passions--fiction and dark chocolate--on fire. As in, give my very first Ignite talk.
What's an Ignite talk? Why, it's like a mini TED talk. You know TED. If you don't, you really need to stop watching reruns of whoever is most desperate right now on primetime television.
So the title of my talk was "Fiction is Like Dark Chocolate." Don't laugh. It's true. Fiction is more like dark chocolate than you ever thought you could dream. Scientific research is in fact proving that fiction lights up some of the same regions of the brain that fire when you eat dark chocolate: the primary somatic sensory cortex, the orbitofrontal cortex, and the motor cortex.
Translation? Your brain can't tell the difference whether you're really having chocolate or just reading about it! Neural networks aside, I vote for having the real thing.
Needless to say the talk was a delight... along with the flourless chocolate cake I brought to the event. By the time my 5-minute talk was over, though, the cake was GONE. Now I can't send chocolate via email, and the videos of all the Ignite talks from that night are still being edited, but I can share some pics from the event! (5th row, first and last photos)
Oh and if you're local, don't forget to come to Books Inc. in Mountain View next week, August 15th, at 7pm, for Mickey Mestel's most awesome book launch party. Deets below in "Meet Me."
So now you have the perfect excuse to indulge, forever. Dark chocolate is the equivalent to reading great literature.
~ Birgitte
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Ever see a book fly out of its nest on its maiden flight? It's a pretty messy affair. Acid-free paper a-flutter, spine cracking, words flying off pages and characters holding on for dear life.
That's why an author really needs to be present whenever a new book flies the coop. Er, launches. Especially if the story involves anything that can actually fly.
Like a crane. A whooping crane to be precise.
And if it's "The Seventh Crane," you really want to be right there when it's released, because the flight of a crane is a sight to see.
The best part? You can download "The Seventh Crane" on Amazon for all of $0.00 this Sunday, August 11. Before and after that, it may be a little pricey (it's a whooping $0.99. Oh, sorry, typo. I meant "whopping.").
Whatever day you choose to get it, enjoy it and tell proud mama how well her little chick flew.
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Ever hear of stealth writing? It's exactly what it sounds like... writing in stealth. In secret. But it's more than just the typical habit we writers have of working on a new book and not letting anyone read it till it's "just perfect" (publishers go gray over this). It's about a literary project so secret that its very existence cannot be disclosed.
Oh darn. I just broke the cardinal rule of stealth writing. Gotta admit it now: I have a secret literary project! With a wonderfully innovative new publisher, whom I'm super excited to work with, and the book is going to thrill the pants off you.
But you don't know a thing about this book yet and this conversation never happened.
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BOOK RELEASE PARTY
We're launching Wandering Turkana to the world! So whatever you're doing, drop it and mark that calendar. Mickey Mestel, the man who walked (yes walked) to Lake Turkana not once but four times will be on hand to tell you all the juicy details. I'll be there as well, proud beaming publisher of this new addition to the billions of books published every year.
When: Thursday, August 15, 7pm.
Where: Books Inc. Mountain View. 301 Castro Street, Mountain View.
RSVP: please do so that we can submit as close to accurate a headcount to the people at Books Inc. as possible. RSVP by emailing me.
ALUMNI AUTHOR MEET & GREET
Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University
Sunday, October 20, 8:30-10am
It's reunion weekend at Stanford and I'll be one of several alumni authors graciously smiling at my fellow classmates as they walk through the hall, hoping no one remembers the white towel incident or my Halloween costume senior year. We're all supposed to be grown up now. I think we fiction authors get a few exemptions...
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