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Update #50: Coming & Crying Returns (with a new book from Glass Houses, too)
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Posted on December 30
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Update #49: come! and maybe cry, on thursday!
everyone always apologizes for making lame jokes about the book title but you know we do it, too.
HOW ARE ALL OF YOU? I hope you all have the book. I personally handed all of the #overdrafters to the mailman this very afternoon. We've mailed everything. Even you #stragglers.
And oh, the overdrafter letters. We got about 30 of them. We want to white out their names and make a zine with them and email it to all of you on our own private internet. These people! Humans! What a great species.
Here's part of just one, to get you excited:
"We're not who we are at our jobs. We're the people at Home having Sex and Embarrassing Ourselves amd Eating Takeout and Talking To Our Pets As If They're Human. We're the people writing things inside of word documents that we'll never show anyone, listening to music on our laptops when we're sad and crying into jars of peanut butter (um, true story), the people who have all of our most profound thoughts late at night right before falling asleep and curse ourselves for forgetting it all in the morning because we were too lazy to grab our pens. Or maybe that's just me. I've got these dreams of writing until my fingers hurt but here I sit. Submit Invoice. Submit Invoice. Submit Invoice."
I read that while I was waiting for my prescription in the basement of some Duane Reade and felt like I needed to sit down, but they were giving flu shots to some old people in the waiting area and I just felt really weird. Duane Reade shouldn't have needles, ya know? So I leaned against a lotion display right when some guy needed to see the lotion. Etc. etc. Point is I read these in cabs and in pharmacies and at my kitchen table and Melissa's living room floor and they're never not wonderful, and they're on their way to these people, in time for the holidays, THANKS TO YOU GUYS!!
Anyway, I am writing to say we have a READING/PANEL/DISCUSSION/ETC at McNally Jackson on Thursday at 7pm. If you are in the area and free Thursday night, PLEASE, PLEASE COME! So many of our writers are going to be there, and there will be wine they say, and I invited the guy my story is about so that should be some good, awkward fun. You can bring your book and all the writers can sign it, if you're into that sort of thing. And you can please come bearing questions, the more awkward the better. I'll be wearing my best cardigan. It will be so fun!
As always, comingandcrying@gmail.com if you have any q's. And our blog! comingandcrying.com
There's good stuff on there, if we do say so ourselves.
Miss you guys,
Meaghan
Update #48: You Are Not a Spreadsheet
Hi everyone.
Lots of you, understandably, are concerned about getting the book, so wanted to clarify: the books have been labeled/sent, save for a few stragglers (if you've sent us your address since Friday, we will revisit our crazy inbox this weekend and send those off to you asap).
We asked for your address a few weeks ago, and if that has already changed since then, I feel your pain, but we may just be playing the mail fwding game for a bit. Once the dust settles from this mailing--in a week or so--we can see where it all ended up and make sure everyone gets what they signed up for. Don't worry. It means a lot to us that each of you has this thing in your hands.
From the looks of things, New Yorkers are getting their books now, so everyone should look out for them this week. Check your mailboxes!
You can still order the book on comingandcrying.com, but we won't send those until after all of the backer books are accounted for and everyone is happy and fulfilled (spiritually and mailing-wise).
Overdrafters anon: we will make a post about this very soon. We'll send a backer update to those folks, and a public announcement on the blog, which is where you should all keep up with us for day to day stuff.
Housekeeping aside, this has been a very surreal, wonderful week (so far!). I don't think i have slept more than a few hours a night in days. Thanks for all of your generosity, in all the different ways you've been there for us. We hope the book reflects that same compassion and abundance of Self.
Okay this started as a comment and is now a backer update. Oh, Internet.
Also, did you see the blog? It's so wonderful. Peter Vidani is a talented man. Check out comingandcrying.com/you. That's the best part.
Love,
Meaghan
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Josh Santangelo on October 8, 2010
Hi Meaghan -- I never received a book here in Seattle, but did enter my address a while ago. Any way to see what's up? Thanks...
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Update #47: (hey everyone. you can buy the book on the internet today at noon.)
Update #46: Coming & Crying, on sale today at noon (EDT)
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Posted on September 1, 2010
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Update #45: more light at the end of the fun, well-lit tunnel. (meaghan)
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Posted on August 24, 2010
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Update #44: Army of us (mgg)
Thank you for also being our photoblog.
(And for your changes of address. As we unload boxes and match book-to-you, we'll make sure we get everyone's current info before anything goes out in the mail. You can message us w/ updates and clarifications and we'll let you know if we need to know more.)
No sleep 'til,
x
mgg
ps: the white splotches are not jism, just a little privacy screen re: me.
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sara p. on August 21, 2010
Can we still send in change of address? I know it's super-late, but I've just officially switched addresses and I really really don't want to miss out on the awesome!
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Update #43: Laptop. (mgg)
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Posted on July 29, 2010
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Update #42: Really truly hot off Icelandic presses
This is how your Coming & Crying gets made, more-or-less live from the Oddi plant.
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Ashlyn Williams on July 22, 2010
Awesome. Honestly that is more interesting cover than I thought and I would have been happy with the plain red cover in the proposal video
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Update #40: x24 (mgg)
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Posted on July 6, 2010
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Update #39: Iceland Provides (mgg)
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Posted on June 21, 2010
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Update #38: What it will look and feel like and where it is from
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Posted on June 18, 2010
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Update #37: Bookmaking Among Friends (Meag)
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Posted on June 15, 2010
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Update #36: Washing my hands
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Posted on June 10, 2010
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Melissa Gira Grant and Meaghan O'Connell
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Meaghan is a writer living in Brooklyn and working at Tumblr, which is also where she keeps her secret blog.
Melissa is a writer, also living in Brooklyn, who wants to learn to operate a printing press, but this is good for now.
mcNJ link: http://mcnallyjackson.com/index.php/component/option,com_events/Itemid,30/agid,761/day,09/month,12/task,view_detail/year,2010/