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Today on Alphabet City: Jon Paul solicits criticism from his fans.
The reviews are in! Well, not yet, actually. That’s where you come in. Alphabet City: My So-Called Sitcom Life is recruiting “citizen book critics” to post some comments on Lulu and Amazon. Head on over to those sites and tell the world your thoughts on my journey. Was there a moment that made you laugh? Cry? Something you wish I’d done more of? Less? (Semi-unrelated sidebar: currently at #4 on Amazon’s Hot New Release-Gay Memoir list–just above Rita Mae Brown?!)
Email me a link to your post or a copy of your tasty morsel from now through March 17 at nycbucky@gmail.com, and as a thank-you several chosen budding book reviewers will receive Alphabet City ephemera. Maybe a Mary Tyler Moore DVD. Or a Tyra “InsideOut” book (unsigned). Sorry, no Whoopi Oscar available (currently).
And don’t worry. I can take your criticism. After the storm of controversy surrounding the Tyra’s Olestra intolerance, I’m pretty hardened. In the midst of the craziness, Jamie at FromMe-ToYou.Tumblr.com reminded me what Andy Warhol said,
Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
Words to live by, in so many situations. My ruler is standing by, ready for action.
1 Comment
March 3, 2010 at 11:43 am
Your experience also reminds me of one of the lectures that we heard back at UT in that American Presidency class — One of the networks ran a negative story on Reagan in the early 80′s and Reagan’s advisors were all upset. Mike Deaver – media guru – told everyone not to worry because the pictures that ran with the story were wonderful and that is all that people would remember. How true – measure the inches and look at the pictures
. (Deaver also said members of the media were lazy and uninterested in the truth — boy is that evident with this one post!)