Lauren Baratz-Logsted | Lauren Baratz-Logsted
May.11.2013
The Moment I Wrote A Book Really Fast: So it was the end of August and I needed to come up with and write a book that was due to be published 11 months later. That’s when I had my epiphany. Having never intended to write a sequel to The Thin Pink Line, which to me had completely addressed...
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May.10.2013
The Moment The Royal Family Screwed Me Over...Again: Book 1 was out, it was the end of summer and we were working on getting Book 2 ready for the following July, Book 2 being Falling for Prince Charles, my alternative-universe romantic comedy about a Jewish cleaning lady who falls in love...
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May.09.2013
The Moment I Realized Some Things Point North: One fun thing about being an author, if you’re lucky, is seeing foreign editions released of your book and the various covers your book winds up with. The Thin Pink Line was published in several countries, including England, France, Italy, Poland, The...
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May.08.2013
The Moment I Got An Option: My agent got in touch to say that a small production company wanted to place an option on The Thin Pink Line. I would get X up front, then Y if a TV movie got made or Z if it became a film. Really, it all sounded good to me. Here was this book that my previous agent hadn...
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May.07.2013
The Moment I Was Almost On TV: A woman at a TV station about an hour from me got in touch to say she wanted to interview me on a particular Friday in August – hey, I wanted that too! But a few days before the event, I began itching all over and breaking out in little red spots, so I went to the...
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May.03.2013
The Moment I Was Glad I Hadn’t: Most published writers know the moment. Your book is out there, it’s up on Amazon, a nasty review pops up, or there aren’t enough reviews, or you have plenty of reviews but you’re greedy and just want one more, and you think to yourself, ‘I’ll just post a...
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May.02.2013
The Moment One Person Showed Up: So there I was, on my way to doing an event at the local Barnes and Noble, which had asked me to come. [It feels important to emphasize that they asked me, I didn’t ask them, so I can’t be accused of bringing this on myself.] I’d already done several events...
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May.01.2013
The Moment My Books Were Returned To Me: So there I was, doing one of my first signings at the Borders in Danbury. Before signing, I was giving a talk and reading, taking questions. A few minutes into the event, my daughter, three years old at the time, began doing a curious thing. One by...
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Apr.30.2013
The Moment My First Book Was Published: For this entry, I’m going to borrow words from a book I started work on six weeks after The Thin Pink Line was published:
The moment I’d been waiting for forever was finally here.
My book...
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Apr.26.2013
The Moment I Realized a New York Times Ad Wasn’t Everything: When I found out my publisher had taken out an ad for The Thin Pink Line in the New York Times Book Review, I thought: How exciting! Then I saw it. I’m sure there must be a technical term for what happens when a single page in a...
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