A little belatedly: Thanks go out to the Independent Book Publishers Awards (AKA IPPY Award), which has awarded Relax, It's Just God: How and Why to Talk to Your Kids About Religion When You're Not Religious a Silver Medal by in the category of Parenting.
After a year and a half, Brown Paper Press is finally starting to feel like more than just a "nice hobby." We're launching two great books (yes, I'm biased, but it's also totally true) Feb. 23. I'm Dyin' Here: A Life in the Paper by Tim Grobaty and Burdens by Water: An Unintended Memoir by Alan Rifkin are both on pre-sale for $16.99 at Amazon.
If you happen to live in the Los Angeles area, please also consider yourself personally invited to our launch party. Really hope to see you there.
The book's been out since March and has gotten some truly outstanding press, but nothing compares to PBS. I'm feeling so grateful — one (who is obviously not me) might even say blessed — for the opportunity to get the word out about my work.
Read MoreI am very proud and happy to announce that my book will be featured on the PBS NewsHour's BookShelf segment sometime in the following week.
Read MoreThey say launching a book is like having a baby.
They are wrong about that.
Because blood, that's why. And pain. And your mom pacing anxiously outside the door to the maternity ward because the nurses had been SO RIDICULOUSLY CONFIDENT
Read MoreI wrote a piece for AlterNet a couple of days ago titled 4 Reasons I'm Glad I Came Out as an Atheist, which has gotten a lot of positive attention and, I'm told, will be re-published in the next edition of Freethought Today, a newspaper (an actual newspaper, printed on, like, actual paper
Read MoreMy Holiday Cheatsheet for Nonreligious Parents is gaining a wider audience, having been picked up recently by the PBS NewsHour website. (Have I mentioned how much I love working with those guys?!) First, they ran my piece on Ash Wednesday and Lent. Then, this week, they ran my piece on Purim. You may have noticed they are a bit more conservative in their word usage; whereas it was originally called: "Quick! What the Hell is Purim?," The NewsHour changed it to "Quick! What the Heck is Purim?" Oh, PBS. You are so PG. But who's complaining?
The first time I was interviewed for a radio station was 15 years ago. The BBC called me to talk about a political convention I had been covering. I was so nervous and exhausted from a long day. And they threw a question at me that I wasn't prepared to answer. I don't remember what I said, but I was apparently just terrible because the host thanked me for my time about seven seconds into the interview and then hung up on me. Nothing more humbling than being hung up on by the BBC, people. Anyway, this morning, I was interviewed again — this time on the Barry Morgan Show, which airs on a Montreal radio station called CJAD. We talked for, like, five whole minutes about girls and science. They plugged the book twice, unprompted. AND they didn't hang up on me even one time. Care to listen? Click here.
Journalis. Author. Editor.
Book trailer for RELAX, IT'S JUST GOD
