Save the Assistants hit bookstores this Tuesday, and I wanted to share a couple of links with you guys.
- Newsweek interviewed me about assistant horror stories, looking for a job during a recession, and pursuing your side projects in order to stay sane.
- I wrote a post for Urban Muse Writer, Susan Johnston’s great blog for freelancers, about ways to best adapt your blog into a book.
- Over at LearnVest, a website about personal finance for young women, I talk about how assistants can save money on even the shittiest of salaries.
- Marie Claire reviewed the book, calling it “vindicating and inspirational.” Something tells me they know a bit about assistant life.
It’s exactly two weeks until Save the Assistants comes out. If you can’t wait until then, you can check out an exclusive excerpt on the Today Show blog. This excerpt is all about those rare but wonderful creatures: celebrities who are actually nice to their assistants.
Hey all! So, forgive the gratuitous self-promotion here for a sec, but I wanted to let you guys know that I have two scheduled book readings/signings so far.
If you’re in Raleigh, NC (my hometown!), I’ll be at Quail Ridge Books on Sunday, September 12. Info is here.
If you’re in New York, I’ll be at Word Bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on Thursday, September 16. Info is here.
I will add more events as they’re confirmed, but if any of you want to come out I’d love to say hi.
The August issue of Psychology Today magazine, out on newsstands now, features Save the Assistants as one of the books in their “What We’re Looking At This Summer” section. Here’s a pic of our blurb below, but you can also check out the full article on page 27 of the print edition.
Hey all – so, I don’t know if I made a big splashy announcement, but Save the Assistants: The Book will be coming out in August. Though the book does feature a couple of the best horror stories from the site, it’s otherwise all-new material. If you want to sample some of the book, there is an exclusive excerpt in the new issue of Cosmopolitan, which goes on sale today. (The STA excerpt is on pages 162-164, if you want to skip ahead.) It’s in the August 2010 issue, which is pictured here.
As for the book itself, it comes out on August 31, but you can preorder it here and here.
Hey all – STA is featured in a really great article on Fortune.com today. You can check it out here, and check out the full text of the horror story they excerpt (it’s one of my all-time favorites) here.
Today’s Independent has an in-depth piece about the world of celebrity personal assistants. Reporter Guy Adams spent some time at a meeting of the Association of Celebrity Personal Assistants (ACPA). The article’s fascinating, as you learn about everything from an “assistant training program” at the Learning Annex to the fact that Roseanne Barr’s assistant is married to Roseanne’s ex-husband (not Tom Arnold, the one she was married to before she was famous). There’s also a quote from Lilit in there, if you can find it.
If you live in New York, pick up today’s New York Observer and check out the article by Doree Shafrir about the plight of publishing-industry assistants in the city. It features some great quotes and commentary from Lilit. You can check the article out here. There’s also an excerpt on Radar and some commentary on Jossip, who refers to Lilit as an “‘industry help’ godmother.” We are now going to call her that all the time.
Lilit is quoted in this very informative article on nicolewilliams.com called “How to Get People to Read Your Blog.” Check it out.
Lilit appeared on NPR’s “The Bryant Park Project” this morning. To listen to the entire show, click here.
For just the STA segment, go here.
