Ellen Meister---Mixing It Up

Anyone who reads my upcoming November title, So Much For My Happy Ending, will learn that I’m a sucker for stories that combine the fun and frivolous aspects of life with the more serious and borderline traumatic aspects. After all, that’s how life is. Even when things are at their worst there’s always something to laugh about and when your life is a bowl of cherries you still have to deal with the pits. That’s why Ellen Meister’s new book Confessions Of The Applewood PTA interests me. At first glance it looks like a light read, certainly the cover would suggest as much. In the story Applewood’s elementary school is pegged as a potential site for the filming of George Clooney’s next movie. In order to make this tantalizing possibility into a reality three very different women (Ruth, Lisa and Maddie) come together to figure out a way to convince the Hollywood producers that Applewood is a cut above their other location choices. While planning and strategizing these women form a strong friendship that they all come to cherish and rely on.

A light read, right? Except Ruth’s husband suffered a debilitating stroke which has had a devastating effect on their marriage. And Lisa is trying to deal with her emotionally abusive alcoholic mother who wants to move in with her while she sobers up. Maddie is sure that her husband is having an affair and in retaliation decides to have an affair of her own. So George Clooney isn’t the only thing these women have on their mind but the fact that he is one of the things on their mind promises to keep this book from getting too schmaltzy or unrealistically heavy.

Dreaming about a movie star one moment and dealing with your dysfunctional family the next…sounds like life.

Anyway, you should check out her blog and see who she’d like to cast as each of her characters should this book be turned into a movie. Lisa Kudrow has already professed to be a big fan of the novel so who knows? Maybe Meister will get her movie and her dream cast. She could be the mom who gets to meet George!


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Things Might Be Getting A LOT Easier For Me

On September 5th my son will be attending his first day of school. As in not homeschool. As in I will now have six hours a day, five days a week, to write and do whatever else I need to do in order to keep my life together. Part of me still doesn’t believe it and maybe I shouldn’t believe it but something tells me that this school is the right place for him. Their curriculum and educational strategy is extremely unique. It’s a combination of Montessori and traditional education. They take the public school’s educational standards for each grade level and use that as the lowest of their expectations. They then put together a list of language arts disciplines (reading, writing and so on) a list of mathematical disciplines and a list of science disciplines. Every morning each child is allowed to pick one thing on each list and they then proceed to work on it independently at whatever level they’re at. The teachers adjust the list daily to ensure that each kid gets a well rounded and balanced education. One of the goals is to ensure that every child is able to easily transition into a more traditional school once they've graduated from this one. There are lots of group activities too, although they mostly involve art, music, physical activities and the like and they all take place later in the day. There is never more than 12 kids in a class and the school is located on a Buddhist Retreat (although the school is secular and run independently) and the grounds are spectacular.

Anyway, they had an unexpected spot open and after an extensive phone conversation with me about my son and his academics and personality they gave him three days free in their summer camp so they would have some time to observe him and work with him. He LOVED it and while they saw how he could be challenging they also were able to work with him and were thrilled by how quickly he took to their independent study program, requesting help when he needed it and focusing on the task at hand. He didn’t have to worry about his handwriting abilities keeping him from being able to record information at the same rate as his classmates. He wasn’t bored (read disruptive) during a lesson that was too easy for him. He felt a certain amount of empowerment by having some say in what he was going to be doing…it was great! Of course it was also camp and while they did some educational stuff it mostly involved music, reading, swimming, theater and so on. Not a lot of long-division going on. But still, I’m hopeful which is a lot more than I could have said two weeks ago. The tuition is doable although the field trips might break me. Seems last years trips included private tours of the SF Moma and tickets to Cirque De Soleil. But hey, what kid doesn’t need to see a bunch of French Canadians twist themselves into pretzels?

To top it all off my son's teacher is Buddhist and one of the five tenets of that religion is patience. So she HAS to put up with my son. It’s literally against her religion not to. I personally think this should be part of a “Worst Case Scenario” handbook: if your kid is majorly high maintenance and drives all his teachers crazy, give him to the Buddhists.

It works for me. Hopefully it will work for my son too.


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Stephanie Lehmann and other stuff

After reading Stephanie Lehmann’s blog I decided to buy her book, You Can Do Better. It’s a fun, light, chick-lit/romance. In the first chapter the protagonist, Daphne Wells, accepts the marriage proposal of her live-in boyfriend. This is clearly a mistake on her part (and his). They’re not right for one another. So why did she say yes?

She says yes because when they first hooked up they were a good match. So good that she decided way back in the beginning of their relationship that this was the man she was supposed to be with. But then his priorities changed and they grew apart. Unfortunately she can’t quite get herself to let go of her initial decision. She can’t see their relationship for what it is, only for what it was.

This is the main reason why I strongly believe people (particularly people in their twenties) should date for a long time before getting married. Your twenties are all about change. At twenty I was attending San Francisco’s Fashion Institute of Design And Merchandising (FIDM). I then went on to New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology(FIT). I worked at couture boutiques, I did internships in buying offices and by twenty-six I was a department manager at Nordstrom.

Now I write murder mysteries for a living. Things just changed for me. I don’t want what I used to want.

A close friend of mine who married young (and divorced around eight years later) confided to me that she thought the traditional marriage vows needed to be rewritten. “They shouldn’t say: for as long as you both shall live," she said. "Instead they should ask: do you take this man for the next 60-65 years. If the minister had phrased it that way I think I would have thought about it a little more.”

I can honestly say that the problems I had in my marriage had little to do with “growing apart” but I’ve seen that happen with a lot of other people I know. Sometimes someone who swears they don’t want to have a child changes their mind (or visa versa) or they decide that they actually don’t like traveling all the time (even though their partner’s career demands it). Occasionally someone will convert to a religion that their partner is uncomfortable with (think Tom Cruise). So don’t rush into a marriage just because the person you’re with seems to want the same things out of life that you do. What you want now (and what he wants) may have little to do with what you’re going to want three years from now. I’m not trying to belittle your current passions. I spent an enormous amount of time and money pursuing a career in the fashion industry. That was a real and legitimate goal. It just turned out not to be a permanent goal, and that’s legitimate to.

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Happy Birthday To Me!

Today I am 34; and that’s in normal human years, not Hollywood years. Actress friends of mine have informed me that in Hollywood when an actor says he/she is 34 it really means they’re 39.

Funny, but 10 years ago I would never have guessed that this is where I’d be at this age. At 24 I was a newly wed and I would have figured that by this age I’d be a buyer at some glamorous specialty retailer…or better yet, own my own boutique that sold cocktail dresses and bridal gowns. That used to be my dream. I was never really excited about being married but I was always thrilled with the idea of having a wedding. I’m all about the princess-for-a-day-thing. And while my marriage may have fallen apart my bridesmaids are STILL thanking me for the dresses I picked out for them. I don’t mean to brag but those may be the only bridesmaid’s dresses that have not only been worn again (on multiple occasions) but are so classic that they will never go out of style.

But now I’m a divorced single mom with a spectacular (albeit high maintenance) little boy and no boutique (although I do watch Project Runway so my interest in fashion isn't completely dead). I also have this incredible writing career. My books can be found all over North America, Europe and Australia. Today alone I received three reader emails from France! I’m not dating anyone seriously but I do have a promising flirtation going on with someone I met on my East Coast tour (you know who you are). All and all I’m actually pretty happy; stressed with deadlines and my son’s school issues, but happy.

My life didn’t turn out the way I had planned and thank God for that!

So go out and get yourself a special cocktail, frappuccino or dessert in honor of my special day and if life has been rough lately take heart; sometimes things have to get really bad before they can become truly fabulous.



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Let's Hear It For Udders!

I took my son to see Barnyard yesterday. It was not the strangest movie I’ve ever seen in my life but it may have made my top ten.

The first thing I noticed was that male protagonists (anthropomorphic male cows) were…well, COWS, as in not bulls. Not only did they not have horns but they had udders. Very large and very prominent udders. And it wasn’t like you could ignore them because these transgender dairy animals were walking around on two legs so their udders were right there wiggling in the viewers face. The visual was so bizarre that I began to wonder if the popcorn I had bought had been a bad choice. This is the kind of movie that should be watched while eating “special” brownies. But that’s just my opinion, right? Anyone who’s read more than one review for the same movie knows that critics rarely agree (with one another or with viewers) and they always fixate on different aspects of the film. So in the interest of getting the varied opinions of others I went online and looked up the reviews. The following is what I found:

The first paragraph of USA Today’s review:

There's some serious gender-bending going on in Nickelodeon's latest animated venture. Barnyard just might be the Transamerica of computer-generated family films. It's a sweet and mildly funny movie that will entertain young audiences, but one aspect is utterly mystifying: The two main characters, father and son bovine creatures, have large, distracting udders

Here are the first two paragraphs of the LA Times review:

I understand that realism is not the main goal in an animated movie about anthropomorphized farm animals, but, seriously, what's with the male cows in Barnyard? Did the bovine gender confusion at the heart of the story give no one pause at Paramount or Nickelodeon? Did the drawbacks of featuring a female lead so outweigh the benefits of cow protagonism that a mass species sex-change was required in order for the project to go forward? Are hornless, uddered boy-cows the next big thing in aggressively marketed, reality-displacing fallacies, like Snackwells and intelligent design?

I don't pretend to know all the answers; all I can say for sure is that in writer-director Steve Oedekerk's bizarre computer-animated universe, "female cows" are required to wear hair accessories in order to differentiate themselves from "male cows," with whom they unaccountably share secondary sex characteristics. Otis the cow (voiced by Kevin James), his alpha cow dad, Ben (Sam Elliott), and the thuggish band of Jersey cows Otis teams up with toward the end of the movie are all in unfortunate possession of protuberant udders that look like rubber toilet plungers with four wobbly cocktail weenies attached. The image would be plenty disturbing enough if the characters didn't compound the shock by going about on hind legs and engaging in lots of bouncy physical activity. Reader, there were times when I felt compelled to avert my eyes and pray for pants.

Here’s the first sentence of Variety’s review:

With a blithe disregard for anatomical correctness, Barnyard offers the spectacle of male cows equipped with prominent udders while spinning an uplifting coming-of-age yarn spiked with liberal doses of madcap lunacy.

And The Washington Posts:

Kids 8 and older may laugh now and again at this ill-conceived animated comic fable about barnyard animals who party like frat boys when the farmer isn't looking, but it surely doesn't earn the laughs through good storytelling or beautiful animation. First and foremost, parents may find themselves trying to explain why key characters in Barnyard are milk cows with udders (looking like slightly modified toilet plungers, minus the wood handles) who are supposedly male. And since the animals walk on two legs when the farmer isn't around, those udders on male "cows" with male voices look even weirder.

So now I have a different feeling about this film. In a society that has become increasingly polarized it’s nice to know that we all can agree on something. This film may very well prove to be the bonding experience of our generation!

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When Does It All Get Easier?

So things have been rather stressful lately. I thought I found the perfect school for my son only to have the damn thing close because of low enrollment. This is the SECOND time in four months this has happened to me (the last time it was a charter school that didn’t open because of the politics within the school district). So now it’s August, I’m stressing over deadlines and my son doesn’t have a school for September. I’m meeting with a teacher from yet another school on Monday and he’ll be attending a day of their summer camp so please, please, please pray for me. Pray that this school is just right for him because I’m about ready to jump off a bridge.

But of course I don’t really want to jump off a bridge, not even with a bungee cord. So in lieu of taking a trip off the Golden Gate I’ve decided to escape into a bit of fun commercial fiction (that I don’t have to write myself). I just ordered Diane Peterfreund’s book, Secret Society Girl. I always enjoy Peterfreund’s blog so I figured that her book would be worth looking into. It’s about a female Ivy league college student who is invited to join a previously all male secret society. Based on what the critics are saying it sounds like the protagonist is very down to earth, the kind of gal who is easy for most of us to relate to. Everyone from Booklist to The New York Observer have had wonderful things to say about it (even Kirkus admits that “the plot is a winner” ) but my favorite review quote is the following:

“Think the Da Vinci Code meets Bridget Jones."

Well I did enjoy Bridget Jones and I loved the Da Vinci Code so this idea appeals to me and it takes Chick Lit into one of the few arenas that the genre has yet to explore.

Once again it puts a chink in the all-chick-lit-books-are-about-dating/dieting/shoe-shopping theory. But I’m going to get off that particular soapbox for a while. Right now I have to worry about educating my kid, writing my books and keeping my sanity. Hopefully Peterfreund can help me with the latter.


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This Chick Is Ticked

I’ve been blogging for two years and I’ve never once taken another author to task or challenged the motivations or message of a colleague’s books so this post is a major deviation for me. However I need to get this off my chest before I explode.

About a year ago Elizabeth Merrick announced that she was launching an anthology called This Is Not Chick Lit. Chick lit authors all over the world flipped out. Lauren Baratz-Logsted actually launched a competing anthology titled This Is Chick Lit in a passionate attempt to make a point. I was invited to take part in that anthology but I declined because of rather severe time constraints. But I also thought that Lauren was overreacting. If you read my blog-post “If It Walks And Talks Like A Duck…” you know that I sympathize with female authors who are writing literary fiction only to have it categorized as chick lit and if you were to form an opinion based solely on Merrick’s interview in USA Today you would assume that this is her beef as well. So if the non-chick-lit authors of the world feel that they need to print the words: This Is Not Chick Lit on the covers of their novels in order to keep their work from being incorrectly labeled then so be it. They have my support.

But now that I’ve actually seen the book I understand what set Lauren off. The problem is not the title. The problem is how Merrick is defining chick lit. The synopsis on the back cover begins with the following statement:

Chick lit: A genre of fiction that often recycles the following plot: Girl in big city desperately searches for Mr. Right in between dieting and shopping for shoes. Girl gets dumped (sometimes repeatedly). Girl finds Prince Charming.

This synopsis is then wrapped up with a quote from Gloria Steinem who has this to say:

"This Is Not Chick Lit is important not only for its content, but for its title. I'll know we're getting somewhere when equally talented male writers feel they have to separate themselves from the endless stream of fiction glorifying war, hunting and sports by naming an anthology This Is Not a Guy Thing."

So now I’m pissed.

Obviously Merrick and Steinem have read Bridget Jones and maybe one of the Shopaholic books and skimmed the first few pages of a few of the pink covered novels displayed on Borders front table. They then decided that this limited research qualified them to make a generalization about an entire genre which is that it is offensively shallow and celebrates the worst of the female stereotypes.

But my research includes a much larger sampling. The first chick lit book I ever read was Laura Caldwell’s Burning the Map. The protagonist has a boyfriend. She breaks up with him in the first chapter in which he makes an appearance. There is little dating and absolutely no shopping or dieting. This book, like many other chick-lit stories, is about the relationship between young women who are all in the middle of redefining themselves.

I’ve also read all of Jennifer Weiner’s books which deal with self-esteem, sibling relationships, mourning the loss of a child, and substance abuse. I’ve read Lynn Messina’s books that satirized pop culture. I’ve read Jennifer Belle’s books which deal with prostitution and emotional abuse. My Sophie books (which are admittedly pure escapism) are not about dieting, shopping and dating. They’re about eating dark chocolate, killing and getting laid.

But Sarah Dunn, Lynda Curnyn and Alisa Valdezs-Rodriguez do write about dating and occasionally shoe shopping and dieting. What’s interesting about their books (and MOST chick-lit books that deal with this subject) is that somewhere along the line the protagonist always realizes that she needs to get over her fear of being alone and start focusing on improving herself. These characters then change careers, improve their self-image, and learn to be self-sufficient. When and IF Mr. Right shows up they are ready to start a relationship based on mutual respect, not one filled with emotional abuse. As I’ve said before, a lot of very intelligent, well adjusted women read these books but you know who else reads chick lit? Young women with negative self-images who hook-up with emotionally abusive boyfriends because of their fear of being alone. Chick lit authors aren’t preaching to the choir. They’re using humor and shoe shopping as a way of converting the skeptics.

But regardless of whether or not they convert these readers will probably never call themselves feminists and that breaks my heart. Most women of my generation (and younger) think that feminism belongs to women who criticize other women for wearing make-up or daring to occasionally wear heels. They think that being a feminist means that you can’t laugh, date, shop or enjoy any frivolity whatsoever. They will not read any of Steinem’s excellent editorials nor will they push for the passing of legislation that will strengthen feminist causes because they feel alienated by those who are supposed to be fighting for them. The inflammatory comments printed on the back cover and those made by some of the authors featured in Merrick’s anthology (Curtis Sittenfeld wrote that accusing a woman of writing chick lit is “not unlike calling another woman a slut,” Lynne Tillman said chick lit is a genre that “announces itself as being second rate”) solidifies the fears of the women who are afraid to embrace feminism. This Is Not Chick Lit is a perfect example of how easy it is to undermine a movement that you claim to be championing.

Ms. Steinem and Ms. Merrick, you have blasted an entire genre of books written by women for women without bothering to take the time to find out if your knee jerk assumptions were correct.

Sorry, but that smacks of sexism.

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Feeling A Little Crazy

Every spare second has been going toward the completion of the third Sophie book, Obsession, Deceit And Really Dark Chocolate and I can finally say with assurance that it’s days from being finished. I’m now just re-reading it one last time and cutting extraneous words and putting in commas that I’ve inadvertently left out.

The last few weeks of working on a manuscript are usually stressful for me. I always want to put the entire world on hold while I focus on my writing but for reasons that I can’t fathom the entire world always refuses to cooperate. My friends continue to call, my bills continue arrive, my son continues to need me and so on. So I inevitably resolve to give up on the one thing that I know I can sacrifice (if only for a short period of time): sleep.

I’ve been up until two, three, sometimes four in the morning trying to get this thing done. Part of the problem is that a few months ago I fooled myself with my one of my own red herrings. Yes, I was almost done with this thing when all of a sudden I said, “Hey! Maybe so-and-so should be the real killer!” Of course that required a major re-write but I am much happier with the manuscript now and I can’t imagine submitting something that I wasn’t proud of.

Anyway, the other night after a particularly late night writing session I had a dream about, what else, writing the book. The novel is kind of a chick-lit-murder-mystery/political-satire (much like Passion, Betrayal And Killer Highlightsis a chick-lit-mystery/social-satire) so in my dream I had to come up with a name for a political organization which would go by the acronym “TRAIN.” I was having a horrible time thinking of something. I tried Trained Railroad Workers Against Intentional Negligence, Tenacious Rwandans Against International Neglect and Teenage Runaways Against Interfering Nincompoops.

This is what happens when I write into the wee hours of the morning: I end up dreaming of nonsensical acronyms.

But I promise none of that is going into the book. I would never make someone pay good money for that kind of sleep-deprived insanity. Instead I’ll just feed it to my blog readers.


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If It Walks And Talks Like A Duck It’s Not A Goose

At any given time I’m usually in the middle of reading three books. One that could be considered “serious literature,” one nonfiction and one light-weight escapist read. More often than not the escapist read is a chick lit title. But here’s the thing that bugs me, frequently I’ll read a review that classifies a certain book as being chick lit only to find out that it’s not chick lit at all. It’s a book written by a woman about a woman set in contemporary times and for some strange reason, the critics of the world have decided that all such books should be labeled chick lit. So what if the book isn’t really funny or even trying to be. So what if the issues that are being addressed have nothing to do with fashion and dating and everything to do with child abandonment and drug addiction. If the protagonist is a young woman who occasionally worries about her weight, it’s chick lit, period, end of story.

Of course no one would read Kenneth Miller’s excellent nonfiction book, Finding Darwin’s God and say, “hey, he just cracked a joke! This book belongs in the humor section!” No bookseller has ever said, “Check it out, somebody in this latest Grisham novel gets laid, let’s call it a romantic suspense!” No, those kind of mistakes never happen. But then again, those authors are men. Yes, I know, I just played the sexist card, but if the stiletto fits…

The reason I take issue with all this is because, as an author, I like to see books be judged for what they are, not what they were never supposed to be. If you’re going to call my books romance novels then they pretty much suck. Romance novels have nice happy romantic endings. Sophie gets “jiggy with it” in the second book, but she doesn’t get to go out on a date. She doesn’t fall in love and nobody falls in love with her (with the possible exception of the reader). But if you call the Sophie novels what they really are (chick lit murder mysteries) then it’s fair to say they achieve their goals. They’re funny, suspenseful and a little gossipy (at least I hope they are). My books deserve to be classified as being part of a chick lit subgenre.

And Martha O’Connor’s book The Bitch Posse deserves to be classified as women’s literature. It’s intense, it’s compelling and it’s at times chilling. It is not chick lit; in fact in the introduction, Martha writes “You are now entering the “chick free zone.” I know there are chick lit authors out there who would take offense at that but I’m not one of them. I simply see this as Martha’s attempt to force the critics to acknowledge an obvious fact that they don’t want to recognize: not every book written by a young new female author is chick lit.

That’s why, upon reading an online review of her book that said, "Drugs, crime, mental illness…in chick lit? Got that right." I literally yelled at my computer screen, “No, you got that WRONG! Didn’t you read the introduction? Does the woman have to put a neon sign on every book telling readers what her book is and isn’t?”

Maybe she does. Or you could just take my word for it. It’s not chick lit. It is not what I would consider a beach read. It is good and it is definitely worth your time. If you like you can stop by Martha’s blog and get a sense of her voice or you could just stop by your local bookseller and check out the book. It’ll probably be shelved with the chick lit stuff.

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My Son, The Heartthrob

So last week I had some house guests: a girlfriend of mine from Oregon and her two daughters who are 7 and 6. Siblings this close in age are often highly competitive and there’s always something to compete over, my son for instance.

On the first day of their arrival the older girl asked if she could share my son’s bed with him. It really was an innocent request and since I don’t have five beds in my house and my son was on board I figured, why not?

The younger daughter, that’s why not. As evening approached she became increasingly perturbed by the situation. “It’s not fair! I want to be the one in his bed!”

“Let your sister sleep with him tonight,” her mother suggested, “and you can sleep with him tomorrow.” My son agreed that this was a reasonable solution but the younger girl still wasn’t appeased. “Maybe he could sleep with my sister for the first part of the night and with me for the second half.”

This seemed a bit much so her mother (and my son) demurred. Everything seemed like it was settled until bedtime actually came around. Each child grabbed their respective stuffed animals and climbed into bed, the older with my son and the younger into the guest bed.

Ten minutes after lights out the three of them came rushing out of the room to find us, the older girl in tears. “They’re purposely making it hard for me to sleep,” she cried. “they’re ganging up on me!”

The younger girl smiled smugly, looked me in the eye and said, “This all started when I told your son that I loved him.”

I looked at my child, who was standing there looking completely baffled, and I realized that he had no appreciation of his situation. Ten years from now he’ll be longing for these kinds of problems. Of course if he does have these kind of problems ten years from now I won’t think it’s so cute…


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