Nancy Rommelmann

Dazed and Confused, in the New York Times Magazine

The Times asked me to write an essay based on The Queens of Montague Street. The excerpt, "Dazed and Confused," runs in tomorrow's Magazine. Yes, yes, I am thrilled, and thankful to all (you know who you are) who sluiced the way to this happening. And I love the icon they chose; wow, when they sent the tear-sheet, I flipped, I was so happy.

Want to read the whole piece?: It'll cost you, 99-cents. Click here.

And thanks everyone for reading xx

Reading Reading Reading

Three for today:

A Detailed Man, David Swinson's crime novel about a DC detective with a half-frozen face and a few too many people he knows dying brutally. Download it for free through midnight tomorrow.

"The Autumn of Joan Didion," Caitlin Flanagan's (to me) spot-on essay about what Didion does best, and worst. Essay at Atlantic.com. Eager to read Flanagan's new book, Girl Land.

Come hear me read from The Bad Mother, this Sunday, when the incomprable Pascal Sauton will throw a Dinner with the Author event, at his really smashingly gorgeous new spot. Food, wine, a little reading, my handsome husband. Come! Details here, and yes, so reserve.

And speaking of downloads: The Queens of Montague Street, 99-cents kids. Digital only... for now.

I Write, You Read, For Free

Okay kids, my publisher is running a special: for the next 48 hours, you can download The Bad Mother, for free, and I wish you would, because we've watched the book go from #negative-googolplex to #18 in Kindle Fiction. Which is pretty cool. And while you are there, you can borrow The Queens of Montague Street for free, if you are a Prime member, 99-cents for the rest of us plebes.

It's been a pretty exciting week, watching this happen. Happy. Thank you for making it so xx

Bestselling on Amazon [Kinda Sorta]

I never followed Amazon ranking on any of my books, except one time when I looked at The Bad Mother's, and it had something like "the 60th billionth bestselling book of all time, and what the hell are you doing here?" But! My publisher, she's smart, and she knows how to position these things, and The Queens of Montague Street is now #6 for Journalist Biographies. If you want to link it, or buy it, or leave a comment (it has no reviews yet), or otherwise plump it, click this link.

If you'd like me to shut up about this for a minute, then you can do that here x