The Rebel Housewife Rules - A Bargain

It has been a busy day, running around on errands: Tax Day (still have to send payments) & Book Group management issues.

I've been asked to coordinate the offline Midtown (Atlanta) Book Group at Barnes & Noble@GeorgiaTech, which I'm really excited about. I had a meeting with the CRM/Book Group Manager at the store this morning, and it's easy to get carried away with a fellow book lover! This is my first time coordinating an offline book group, and it is a very diverse, wonderful group of people, so it will be interesting and challenging to help select books that everyone will enjoy.

While I was at Barnes & Noble, I happened to see my book, The Rebel Housewife Rules: To Heck With Domestic Bliss!" in the Bargain Books section...I'm not sure how to feel about that! It was the Gift Book Version, which I never loved (odd size & they completely changed the cover), and I was too distraught to remember if the discount price was $6.98 or $7.98. If it had been the original version (still available at Amazon.com!), I would have bought them all up. As it was, there were only 3 copies, so it's okay...sniff, sniff...

It's definitely time to get the next book out! (Oh so much easier said than done!!)

Comments

[Sherri Caldwell]

To cheer myself up, after finding The Rebel Housewife Rules in the Bargain Book section at Barnes & Noble, I went back to a very nice Comment posted recently on the website. It was Commented on The Rebel Blog about Judith Regan, and I decided to move it over here, converting from ALL CAPS and adding a space and a comma here and there.

Thanks so much to Jessica Lynn Clabbatz, who wrote on April 13, 2007:

"Vicky and Sherri, I thought your book Rules of a Rebel Housewife [sic] was great. I am not a mother or a housewife, but I hope to be both someday. I thought it very clever of you to organize your book the way that you did. You translated the realities from the myths in the world of family living. A lot of people don't think that a family is a family unless it is perfect. So I liked how you gave your expectations of love, marriage and children and then told what you really got.

I had various favorite parts, but I related mostly to the parts that tell exactly how worthless men are. Yes we love them, but as time goes on more and more men can't even change the oil in the car anymore. Women really have much harder now that men are lazy and the cost of living is out of control We work, cook, clean and if there's kids, well you know. They go to work, come home, sit down and want some kind of reward for working. A beer, foot rub, something, but their day is over. We have to keep plugging away because if we don't no one will.

I heard on news the other day that less and less people are getting married. Well, I know that all men aren't completely worthless, but I am 21 years old and dating already makes me sick. Living with someone is even harder and I don't think that I can deal with someone always wanting to do what they want to do when they want to do it.

Anyway. Yes, I get a little worked up about men, but I really just wanted to tell you two ladies that I think you are very ambitious women for having full time lives and taking the time to write this book. It really made me laugh and I hope I find a friend like you two have found in each other so that I don't go crazy."

[Jessica Lynn Clabbatz]

Vicki and Sherry,
It is so very funny how things work out. I read your book over three years ago and wrote that comment. Just yesterday my fiance was pointlessly surfing the internet and went ahead and googled my name. This page came up and later he told me what you did with my comment and I am so inspired by this recognition. I am always aware of my lack of skills in the grammer department but never attempted to get any help fixing it. mainly because I never thought anyone would be interested in what I had to say. But you were and I could be wrong but it kind of sounds like I made a bad feeling a little bit better for you.
This discovery is also ironic because now three years later I have a child and possibly think I may have been just a little hard on the men. But that's this week. At any rate thankyou. I'm very much considering going to school for writing or journalism. So ad this as an update of the rollercoaster that is my life now and thank goodness for my study material "Rebel Housewives"

[Sherri Caldwell]

Jessica,
That is so awesome! Thank you for coming back and sharing your update. I am so glad life is working out more "happily ever after" than you might have thought for a minute when you were 21. Marriage and motherhood is a fabulous adventure -- you just have to keep your sense of humor! Wishing you all the very best in your journey and hope for more updates along the way!
Live, Love & Laugh,
Sherri