The Phone call

Thank you to everybody that has been celebrating with me through e-mails, comments, phone calls, and general good wishes. I cannot express just how much all of it means to me. I guess I'll just have to put it all in the book.

There's so much happening and a lot of stuff I want to tell you, but it'll just have to wait. What I can tell you is that when I first moved to New York one of my first temp assignments was working in the massive copier room at Penguin Books (where Perigee is located). When I reported for the assignment, I sat in the lobby viewing all their gorgeous books lining the walls and I had such pangs of longing. When I got the call that my book was going through, I felt that same woman who sat in the lobby longing leap up and say YES! I guess that's what I want The Artist in the Office book to be. I want it to be like a phone call that makes people leap up and say yes to the whole of their experience--the temp part, the longing part, and the artist part.

Right now I feel like the kid who has been eating too much cake at the party, happy, but hung over. I've been walking around with THRILLED THRILLED flashing in my eye sockets for days now. It IS thrilling, but I am starting to feel a bit nuts from it all. I think I need to get back to work.

Thank you all again for being here to see it all emerge. I can't wait for you to read the book!