Tremendous news! Well, tremendous to me, and hopefully to you, too. Formerly Hot is going to be a book (once I write it and they staple the pages together, that is!) I just shook figurative hands with an editor over at Ballantine–a living, breathing Boston Formerly who seems as psyched as I am to add to the Formerly Army.
Ooh, that sounds too militant. So not into marching in lockstep. The Formerly Club? Nah, too exclusive–velvet ropes with some burly bouncer to pick and choose who can come in is so not what we’re about. Network? A bit corporate striver. How about the Formerly Party (as in cake, piñatas and goody bags, not as in flag pins, backroom dealings and, let’s face it, still mostly older white guys who can’t relate to being us)? That’ll do for now, until we think of something better.
So please, continue to post your thoughts and feelings about finding yourself a Formerly, and if you haven’t yet, do so! As always, if you’re shy, you can drop me an email at stephanie@formerlyhot.com or post under an assumed name. And as always, thanks for all the support and happy thoughts.
Steph
Photo by Lainey’s Repetoire CC
July 1, 2009 at 12:50 pm
I read your “Turning 40” piece in June’s redbook. I have been chronicling my own rites of passage in my blog above, because I turned over the big “50”. I was so moved to take my writing a step further-I was a newspaper correspondent once upon a time-that I submitted a little pitch to Redbook. I emailed it right to the Editor-inChief. At any rate, I read from your blog that you have a book deal. Wow!
Have you any tips for first-time’er like me who hopes to get her pieces somewhere in the proper hands, in the proper channels, where they may find resonance and publication-worthiness???? I did not in my little pitch to Redbook offer a prospective piece; I just included a link to my blog, and a request for a reply.
I’m sitting here in my bikini, something I couldn’t have done when I was 40.
July 3, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Congratulations on the book deal Steph! You’re an awesome writer (even though we formerlies shouldn’t use the word awesome, IMO).
July 4, 2009 at 10:15 am
What’s wrong with “awesome”? Better than “amazing,” don’t you think?