Nov. 16, 2009, the day I really arrived:
Hahaha. I started getting facebooks and emails late yesterday afternoon. I was giddy all night. It actually tickled me even more than making the Pub Weekly and Amazon best of 2009 lists.
This was a dream I didn't know I had. I used to play every day, my little sister Mrs Che kept score. I would get a little nuts when I didn't win. I loved that game, the show, Alex. For years, I dreamed of being on the show as a contestant--that was one of my biggest early fantasies. But it never occured to me that I might make it on as a question.
The category was "In The Bookstore," BTW.
And I didn't even mind that they got my name wrong. Sorta. It's on my birth certificate that way, but not the book cover. (Technically, it's not on the front cover at all, but it's inside and on the spine that way.)
I was thinking about emailing my editor, but thought it might be too silly. Then I got home last night, and he had sent it to me. An editor at the house had tivo'd it (I think), and backed up to snap a photo, and sent it all around the house. Haha. Nice to know we all enjoy stuff like this.
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Well, except for the endless repeats of Tournaments of Champions...
i'm really enjoying these. you guys are great.
This is what fame feels like.
"This author wrote the definitive account of the tragic April 1999 shooting at Columbine High School."
And the correct response:
"Who is Dave Cullen?"
i wonder how many books it will take.
Congrates! You really ARE somebody! Well deserved, too.
Congrats, Dave!
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and still enjoying waking up to read all the comments. thanks, you guys.
Congratulations - how fun!
The closest I personally have ever come to this was meeting Art Fleming, the host of the original "Jeopardy." He hosted "College Bowl" on the radio when I was on the team that went to the national championships. I digress, but you haven't been to a Nerdapalooza until you've been to the College Bowl national championships.
TREBEK RULES!!
but maybe it qualifies me for celebrity jeopardy--if authors count as celebrities. i might need to write a few more books first. but it's a start.
(Just wanted to establish a new goal for you.)
(i don't get the creepy idea, but everyone is entitled.)
kent, good goal. that means i need to crank out at least five books. that will take awhile. but hopefully i've got awhile on this planet.
(laughs like Sean Connery)
(OMG OMG It's Dave!! He blogs where I blog!! He has commented on my stuff!! I know him!)
A short personal anecdote. My 86 year old father passed away recently and while straightening out his house in Detroit the other day I noted that he was reading Columbine. He had purchased it from Amazon, and judging from the bookmark he was on Chapter 18: Last Bus.
Your book has wide appeal. I brought his copy home, and am reading it myself.
Congratulations on your Jeopardy fame.
Is that good enough for you to chat me up with your famous friends- to-be?
(but hopefully i just burst the damn and will get to like myself again tomorrow. that's just the writing life, at least for me--and every writer i know.)
really, though, it's nice. very nice. tanks, as we say in chicago.
grif, that was particularly touching. i'm very sorry about your dad. how sweet of you to share that. that's another scenario i have never imagined. my mentor died in bed, with a book in her hands, which was the greatest comfort in losing her. i hope my book gave him some joy, or something.
Actually, that makes for a cool title: "I was a question on Jeopardy."
i wish i'd seen it. i used to tivo it every day, watched for about 20 years, but then it faded off. damn. i should have watched THIS 20.