Pass me the hoodie

I HATE TECHNOLOGY! Yes, I know, I'm ready to be outfitted for my hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses, but if I go all Unabomber on you, I promise to wear a totally cute hoodie and super-hot sunglasses.

It all started back in June. In honor of JACK WITH A TWIST, I had a whole new website made. And it really is gorgeous. But from the second we made the switchover, there have been problems. First, my website was down for days at a time. I thought that was bad, but I then found out what bad truly was: My email then began shutting down for days at a time. Now, I'm not very web savvy, so I believed my website peeps when they assured me that all of my emails weren't getting lost—they were out there somewhere in cyberspace, just waiting to be delivered to me.

Well, those people lied.

Turns out, I lost emails. Lots of emails. Emails lost for weeks at a time. No way of recovering them. Which, as a lawyer, boggles my mind. How can emails actually be lost? You're telling me that if I was involved in a RICO investigation or some sort of child pornography operation they wouldn't be able to recover my old "lost" emails?! Exactly. But it turns out that authors don't really get the same attention as do law-breakers.

All of this is made even worse by the fact that in those weeks when the website was going down every other day and I had no access to email, I was doing promotions of countless websites and was offering free bookmarks to anyone who emailed me.

I think that the problems are more or less cleared up by now, but if you sent me an email and I didn't respond, please email me again! And if you asked for a free bookmark and you still haven't gotten it, by all means shoot me another email.

And do it quick, since I'll be shopping for an isolated cabin in the woods any minute now….

Book Launch Party!

This summer, Brooke Miller is back!

And Mediabistro's having a Book Launch Party to celebrate all of the fun!

Please join us on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 from 6:30pm until 8:30pm to celebrate the launch of my second novel, JACK WITH A TWIST (Engaging your adversary and other things they don't teach you in law school). RSVPs are a must, so please let us know if you'll be there! The fun starts at 6:30 and will be at Katra, 217 Bowery in NYC.

We've also got a whole new website in honor of JACK, so go check it out! And, as always, if your book club will be reading JACK, please email me at brenda@brendajanowitz.com and I'll send you free JACK WITH A TWIST bookmarks and even call in to say hi! I hope to see you all on Tuesday, June 24th!

xoxo,Brenda