Big Day

Yesterday was a big day for me.  It marked the release of Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey and my debut as a published essayist.  I am so honored to be a part of this project and to be included with such a fantastic group of writers.  

It is a pretty proud moment to see your name on the cover of a book for the first time.

Did you find me?  Did you find me?

I'm doing a signing at Fairport Library on Dec 1st and will have copies available for sale.  Here's more on that:

Festive Book Fair 11 Local Authors  Saturday, December 1, 2012 2:00pm -- 4:00pm

Meet the authors, see the books Unique gifts for family and friends For the youngest children: Ellen Stoll Walsh: Balancing Act, and a score of other engaging picture books. She is the author whose mice are seen near the gazebo outside the library. For intermediates and middle schoolers: Sean Kolczynski: The Night Before Middle School, a story he wrote to fulfill an elementary school assignment. Reassuring for the elementary set.  For young adults: Charles Benoit: Fall from Grace. Decisions "as harshly real as hell or high school," according to Robert Lipsyte. Benoit is the husband of Rose Benoit at Minerva DeLand School. Sherry Gammon: Souls in Peril. High school Senior Max Sanchez has it all. He's the star pitcher; he's dating the head cheerleader; he has a great group of friends. And then an accident thrusts him into the skin of another boy, his opposite, a lonely and much-bullied misfit... Adult Fiction: Duane H Cook:   By Guess and By God, a Novel. Historical fiction loosely based on the author's grandfather's experiences rabbit-ranching in Idaho. Kathy Johncox: The Last Generation of Women who Cook. Short stories around the theme of food. Johncox's fiction has been published in Lake Affect Magazine,Buffalo Spree Magazine, and online in "Inkburns" and "Potpourri." Adult Nonfiction: Dennis Bielewicz: Heroes in the Attic: the Untold Story of two Civil War Soldiers. Nonfiction, about two upstate youths who abandoned their college classes to fight in the Civil War. Bielewicz was librarian at Fairport High School for 30 years. Margaret Cleary-Osborne: Rush Hour Recipes of America. Authentic home cooking, these recipes feature minimal measuring/peeling, one bowl /pan, and usually only one step. Jennifer Sanzo: Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey. The author of the blog "Flower City Fashionista" teamed up with Heather Graham, Sylvia Day and others to continue the conversation in so many book clubs about E. L. James' Fifty Shades series. Bill Self: Customer 3D: a New Dimension for Customers. The author provides a system to help business people improve customer service. At the same time, he makes consumers aware of the service they should demand. Elaine Webster: Dawn Dancing. Poems of intense pain and great joy, many based on the author's travels to Racquette Lake and more distant destinations in the US and abroad.    Cash sales-Checks may be accepted by some authors.

 

It's all a little surreal.  Above all I feel so proud and so blessed, and I'll be happy to autograph your copy.  ;) 

Happy Thanksgiving!

And think of gifting Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey this holiday season.  It's the gift that keeps on giving ;)

xoxo

Jenny

PS- You can read my editor's introduction here and more about why our publisher decided to publish it here.

Big Announcement!

No, I'm not pregnant.

Remember when I disappeared from the blogging world in the beginning of the summer?  No?  Well, I was MIA for a few weeks because I was up to my eyeballs in Christian Grey.  Hey, there are worse things right?   I am thrilled to announce that I am one of the writers contributing to Lori Perikin's book Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey being published in November.  Go ahead, jump up and down and clap - I did!  

I am beyond excited to be included with this group of writers. It is going to be an amazing book!  I'll be sure to keep you updated with any happenings related to my debut as a published essayist!  Can't wait to read what I had to say about Fifty?  Feel free to pre-order your copy here:

For those of you out there scratching your heads as to how this all happened, that's a story for another day.  What I will tell you is that (despite the quality of writing on this blog) I do in fact have an English degree, am a published poet (crazy right?) and was an adjunct professor prior to popping out the kiddos.  Sure, I love to shop, and I'm not afraid to work for shoes (or a statement necklace for that matter), but my real passion is writing and literature.  This book project couldn't have come at a better time.  I had no idea how much I truly missed it; it was like reuniting with an old friend.

Now I just need to worry about how to explain the mature subject matter to my grandpa, my dad, my in-laws and my 93-year old Pop-Pop...

Any advice?

Would love to hear your thoughts on that!

xoxo

Jenny