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Monday, August 27, 2007

Bookish

Male chick lit author Patrick Sanchez earns $50,000 a year from fiction writing

Deep Inside author Polly Frost asks, "Why can't Atlanta get it up for erotica?"

Corporate Sedution author Bridget Midway asks, "There's sex in erotica?" as part of Booktour's excellent stories section

So much for the blogger book deal? Jason Mulgrew's Everything Is Wrong With Me is no longer being published by DK (no longer on Amazon, was confirmed to me by someone at DK)

Daddy Needs a Drink author Robert Wilder has a new book out, Tales from the Teachers' Lounge: An Irreverent View of What It Really Means to be a Teacher Today. (Daddy also had a really long subtitle: "An Irreverent Look at Parenting from a Dad Who Truly Loves His Kids--Even When They're Driving Him Nuts"). I interviewed him at Cupcakes Take the Cake last Father's Day.



Wilder was twenty-six when he found his true calling. Leaving a lucrative advertising career in New York, he got a job as an assistant first-grade teacher at a Santa Fe alternative school—and never looked back. Now he brings his unique perspective—as a teacher, parent, and former student—to a series of laugh-out-loud essays that show teaching at its most absurd…and most rewarding. With brutal candor he chronicles his own lively adventures in modern education, from navigating cutthroat kindergarten sign-ups to subbing for a class experiment gone wrong–and dares to tell about it.

He shares the surprising lessons he’s learned in the trenches of his profession, including how to bribe a four-year-old (his own) to stop swearing in a Lutheran preschool and the best way to teach moody teenagers…manage “helicopter” parents…and cope with bullies—whether of the school-yard, Internet, or parental kind. And he offers tough love for cheaters who log on to www.SchoolSucks.com, then puts to rest forever the question of why new teachers gain weight (hint: the free donuts don’t help).


Here's a fun reading guide/quiz.

I just mentioned my favorite essay in DNAD, about his son saying the word "pussy" in the supermarket last night as my very verbal cousin chatted up a storm.

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