{"id":939,"date":"2008-06-19T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=939"},"modified":"2008-06-19T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T11:08:00","slug":"book-parties-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/06\/19\/book-parties-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Parties 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SFoqqYbS6sI\/AAAAAAAABpw\/2AfrtDpjn_U\/s1600-h\/bookclub.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SFoqqYbS6sI\/AAAAAAAABpw\/2AfrtDpjn_U\/s200\/bookclub.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been going to lots of book parties lately.  Lots and lots of book parties.  And as a writer at someone else&#8217;s book party, one always take mental notes. Here are three of my latest:<\/p>\n<p>1.  Ask guests to please go home and write a 5-star review of your book on Amazon.com.  You must ask in tongue and cheek tone, but, of course, you are deadly serious.<\/p>\n<p>2.  Have a gimmick related to your book.  Best ever: heaps of ice cream and other bad-for-your-waist deliciousness offered at Abby Ellin&#8217;s book party for<span style=\"font-style: italic\"> Teenage Waistland<\/span> &#8212; oh, and the scale.  Close second, even though it made me jumpy: the pink balloons at a party last week for <a><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World&#8211;And How to Reach Them<\/span><\/a> (more on this new book soon!) which guests were asked to pop as a reminder that there&#8217;s more to marketing social change to women than making everything pink.<\/p>\n<p>3.  Wear a crazy fabulous dress because, really, when else do you get to.<\/p>\n<p>What was the best\/worst book party you&#8217;ve been to, those of you who frequent such things?  (Note: I&#8217;m not looking for personal snipes here &#8212; just your thoughts about do&#8217;s and don&#8217;ts!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.party2win.com\/dirtygirlsbookparties\/\">Image cred<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been going to lots of book parties lately. Lots and lots of book parties. And as a writer at someone else&#8217;s book party, one always take mental notes. Here are three of my latest: 1. Ask guests to please go home and write a 5-star review of your book on Amazon.com. You must ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21941],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}