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Hey, east siders (of the greater Seattle area): Just a little reminder that I’ll be reading from The Anti 9-to-5 Guide and answering questions on career change, self-employment, flex time, the freelance life, and anything else you want to talk about this Thursday evening (as in, tonight). The scoop:
Thursday, March 29, 7:00 p.m.
Parkplace Books
348 Parkplace Center (at Third Street South)
Kirkland, WA
(425) 828-6546
If you can make it, don’t be shy. Belly up to the booksigning table and say hello.
March 28th, 2007
This was lovely to wake up to: Elliott Bay Book Company’s current bestsellers. (Scroll down, look right, join me in my goofy little happy dance.) Thank you, Seattle! xoxo
March 26th, 2007
Any Bellingham, Washington, residents (or neighbors) browsing here? If so, we could be talking in person — tomorrow! — at my Village Books reading and author Q&A. The details:
Tuesday, March 20, 7:30 p.m.
Village Books
1200 Eleventh Street, Bellingham, WA
(360) 671-2626
If you and/or your friends attend, be sure to say hello. As always, you can play “Where’s Michelle-o” here.
March 19th, 2007
Did I mention that sometimes I really do think I left my heart in San Francisco? I lived there for almost a decade and am wondering if I’m ever going to stop missing it. That’s why I just had to sign on for a second reading down there. This one’s in Marin County, where I lived for a few years. Sighhhhhhh.
Tuesday, April 3, 7 p.m.
Habitat Books
205 Second Street, Sausalito
(415) 331-3344
Co-sponsored by Media Alliance
For the entire world domination tour, see my Events page.
March 19th, 2007
It’s been quite the week for big press. First the interview I did with journalist Lynn Thorne for the Washington Post (from the airport! on a payphone because my cell died!) came out. In it, I talk about why I wrote this book specifically for women, what I wished I had known as a budding young freelancer, how disgruntled wage slaves can make their workweek a bit less onerous, and more.
The Post was also lovely enough to call my book “a witty-yet-practical look at what to do if you hit the snooze button repeatedly every workday morning or want to dump a boss who acts like ‘The Office’s’ big kahuna.” (You can read the entire Q&A here.)
Then the Seattle Times ran a review by Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett of three “chick-lit self-help” books (their words) written by local authors, including yours truly and Deborah Reber, author of a kickass-sounding career book for girls, In Their Shoes: Extraordinary Women Describe Their Amazing Careers.
If you don’t want to read the whole review, here are the juicy bits about my book from the article:
Michelle Goodman’s “The Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the Cube” is a must-read for anyone who daydreams about smashing the time clock and feeding her soul. Goodman, who escaped her own cubicle hell 15 years ago, knows of what she speaks:
“My first year as a newbie freelancer, I spent half the day freelancing, the other half doing God knows what, and many an evening canceling social plans so I could cram to make the next morning’s deadline.”
When her procrastinating forced her to proofread an 800-page self-help book over two sleepless days in order to make a deadline, Goodman wised up.
“Honestly, it doesn’t take long to realize the more soap-opera marathons and three-hour lunches with unemployed friends you indulge in, the less rent money you have.”
Goodman interviews other women who have found satisfaction outside the cubicle, and the end result is a realistic, yet still inspiring handbook.
Whee! Thank you, Seattle Times. And finally, if you can’t get enough of The Anti 9-to-5 Guide promo-fest, Seattle’s AM 1090 “Progressive Talk” will be running a radio interview with me (taped in February) this Sunday morning at 7 a.m. PST. Interviewer Tami Kosch was so great, she even asked about my office manager on the air. If, like me, you’ll be sleeping at that time, you can listen to the podcast later in the week. I’ll letcha know when it’s online.
One more thing: I finally updated my Media page, so if you want to see who else has been buzzing about the book, have a look-see.
March 17th, 2007
Or as Joni Mitchell said, “California, I’m coming home…”
I’ll be reading in San Francisco in early April. Yay!
The details:
Wednesday, April 4, 7 p.m.
Borders - Union Square
400 Post Street, San Francisco
(415) 399-1633
More Seattle, New York, and Vancouver, BC, events listed here. I’ve also signed on to do a few panels, classes, and workshops in the Seattle area this summer. I’ll list those as soon as details firm up.
March 12th, 2007
Yay, I have upcoming Vancouver, BC event dates. Behold:
Thursday, April 26, 7:00 PM
Sophia Books
450 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
(604) 684-0484
Friday, April 27, 7:30 PM
Vancouver Public Library
Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level
Central Library
350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver
(604) 331-3603
Sponsored by Banyen Books
I also have New York dates for mid-May, here. And the Washington, DC dates should be squared away very soon. More on California and Oregon after that.
March 7th, 2007
Here’s a 20-minute radio interview I did yesterday (March 6th) with superstar NPR interviewer Megan Sukys on “The Beat,” an afternoon Puget Sound show on 94.9 KUOW that has a bit of an artsy, entrepreneurial bent. Hear what practical steps I recommend taking before fleeing the cube — and how you can avoid the same mistakes I made when I first set out on my own. Have yourself a grand old listen.
March 7th, 2007
In case I haven’t mentioned it in the last five minutes, I have a reading Thursday night at 7 p.m. at the University Book Store in Seattle. Here’s the info. Hell, here’s the info for all my March/April readings in Puget Sound area.
SEATTLE - Thursday, March 1, 7 p.m.
University Book Store
4326 University Way NE, Seattle
(800) 335-7323
BELLINGHAM - Tuesday, March 20, 7:30 p.m.
Village Books
1200 Eleventh Street, Bellingham, WA
(360) 671-2626
KIRKLAND - Thursday, March 29, 7:00 p.m.
Parkplace Books
348 Parkplace Center (at Third Street South), Kirkland, WA
(425) 828-6546
NORTH SEATTLE - Thursday, April 12, 7 p.m.
Third Place Books
17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park (North Seattle)
(206) 366-3333
More event info — including my first two New York dates! — here. Thanks for playing. We will resume our normal newsy, tipster, and anti 9-to-5 profile programming any minute now, just as soon as I get these two copywriting projects off my plate and out of my hair.
February 28th, 2007
Dudes, it’s my big fat Anti 9-to-5 World Cybertour, only without the stadiums or rocking concert jerseys. (Though if anyone would like to help design and/or coordinate the latter, I’m all over it. Email me.)
First stop up on the Anti 9-to-5 World Cybertour, one of my top 5 desert island blogs, The Renegade Writer — virtual home of Linda Formichelli and Diana Burrell, authors of The Renegade Writer and Query Letters That Rock (two books every freelance writer should have). In my Q&A with The Renegade Writer, I talk about why I wrote a career guide for women, what it takes to work for yourself, and how freelance writers can continuously strive for bigger and better gigs. See for yourself.
There is no official schedule for my Anti 9-to-5 World Cybertour. From time to time, I’ll do Q&As or guest posts on other people’s blogs. And I’ll of course link to them here so you can raise your lighters and revel in all the anti 9-to-5 glory.
February 28th, 2007
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