Marcy Dermansky's Blog: Events - Posts Tagged "the-red-car"

It is a lovely thing to go to your Good Reads page and find a listing for your new book. I am really happy about this.

I have been looking forward to fall for awhile now. Nina goes back to school. My book comes out. My book comes out. And, yes, I wanted that sentence twice. Three times would be too many or I would type it again. I obviously considered it.

The Red Car was included in THE GREAT BOOKSELLERS FALL 2016 PREVIEW over at Lithub.

http://lithub.com/the-great-bookselle...

Maybe this is a quote I would tattoo on my body if I were ever to get a tattoo:

Dermansky is acerbic salvation.

It was Nina, my seven-year old daughter who noticed a stack of my books on the front table in the Watchung Bookstore. Bad Marie and Twins. And notecard with my name and the date of my reading and the title of my new book. Which was wasn't on the pile because it isn't out yet. Soon.

This is now our bookstore. We live a block away.
I was surprised by how happy I felt. It was such a surprise. It has been a long time since I have seen one of my books in an actual bookstore and I felt hopeful and good.

Here is a first for me in my life as an author. Emma Straub praised my novel on The Today Show! That deserves an exclamation point.

She described The Red Car as "twisted, sexy, and mysterious." She did such an amazing job talking about how much she loved my novel that the host Savannah Guthrie grabbed the book from Emma's hands.

You can watch it here:

http://www.today.com/popculture/these...

THE RED CAR is now a book that you can buy or take out of the library.

That seems worthy of mention.

Lot's of stuff about the book this first week out.

Two profiles of me.

One with drawing at Buzzfeed:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/doree/marcy-...

One without in Kirkus
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/feature...

I am posting links to reviews on my web page (have to keep up...)

http://www.marcydermansky.com/

And there is a feature on Goodreads, ask the author a question, so feel free. I ask myself questions all the time.

xox,
Marcy

Yesterday, two nice pieces came out of Los Angeles about THE RED CAR.

A short but wonderful review in the Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc...

And an interview with Matthew Salesses for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/s...

I hope one day to go to Los Angeles. Haven't been yet.

Also, thank you to all of the wonderful readers who have read and written about my novel on this page.

I was on the weekend edition this weekend on NPR. It was the first in studio taping I have ever done -- so when I was led into the room for the interview and given the headphones for my interview, I waited for my interviewer. Waited. Looked around. Wondered when she would be coming.

She did not appear because she was in Washington, DC.

Fortunately, I figured something was up and put on my headphones just in time. I missed Ailsa Ailsa Chang's introduction but was there in time to say, "Nice to be here." Whew. The taping wasn't live.

If you want to hear the sound of my voice, I answer questions and read a short passage of The Red Car.

http://www.npr.org/2016/12/04/5043219...

I was interviewed by Mahvash Mossaed about my writing process. The RED CAR releases in paperback on September 12.

I love the new cover of the book. I will be doing some new events this fall and I will post them, too, as the dates come closer. Stay tuned...

http://mahvashmossaed.com/2017/08/19/...

The Red Car is out in paperback.

I loved the cover of the hardcover edition.

I will admit to being worried when my editor told me that my publisher wanted to put a new cover on the paperback.

And behold.

I love it even more.

This is for any one who appreciates a good publishing story!

Thanks for reading. The blog. And the book! If you have read it. If you haven't yet, it's out in paperback...





Marcy