It’s Possibly Real
Tomorrow I fly to New York for the Syrup movie. They’re about to start production; I get to hang out on set. On the 14th I am supposed to act: I have a cameo as an executive in a strip club scene.
This is all pretty insane. As I mentioned, I’ve only just started to believe this film is happening. Prior to now, my experience with Hollywood has been mostly getting promised things. I learned to adopt an “I’ll believe when I see it” attitude. Apparently I’m about to see it.
A part of me is occasionally paralyzed with fear as to how this thing will turn out. I’m trying to keep that under control, and instead remember how I sat in my 1979 Toyota Corolla (street value: $200) and typed this novel out across a couple hundred lunch breaks from my job as a sales rep. I was 23 years old. That guy dreamed of this. He would be awe-struck that it’s happening. Not completely, because he was kind of arrogant, and expected nothing less than greatness. But still. I’m taking that guy to New York with me.
P.S. I will tweet what I can.
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Melissa (#888)
Location: WI
Quote: "When you can't run anymore, you crawl, and when you can't do that, you find someone to carry you."
Posted: 4678 days ago
Mapuche (#1184)
Location: Darwin, Australia
Quote: "Inconceivable!"
Posted: 4678 days ago
Billy McMahon (#4690)
Location: Variable
Quote: "revolution"
Posted: 4678 days ago
Did you request that particular cameo?
stanley becker (#5283)
Location: black hole
Quote: "DON"T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER!!"
Posted: 4678 days ago
David (#1456)
Location: Sydney, Australia
Quote: "Why are the pretty ones always insane?"
Posted: 4678 days ago
So many authors become depressed that their books aren't published, then that they have no say in the covers (and they hate the ones the publisher picks), then that one of their books is optioned for a movie that never gets made, then, if the movie gets made, they hate it and think the actors are all wrong, etc.
You on the other hand get your books published (with problems along the way admittedly, but published nonetheless), and now you get to *pick* (with your reader's help) the cover for one of them, and your first book not only gets optioned for a movie but it's actually getting made! And you get to play a bit part in the thing. In a fscking strip club for crying out loud!
Marleen (#2741)
Location: Canada
Posted: 4678 days ago
We'll be on the same side of the globe for a change!
How VERY unlikely that I will bump into you Max, but I'm still excited.
PS: all the movie business? FAB. Go you!
Jeffrey (#2286)
Location: Right here
Quote: "Mathematics is a powerful language. Just look at how mathematicians destroyed the housing market."
Posted: 4678 days ago
Lynne D Perry (#5100)
Location: Penfield, New York
Quote: "Resistance to Linux is futile. You *will* be assimilated."
Posted: 4678 days ago
jessica (#3063)
Location: austin, tx
Quote: "You can't start a fire worrying about your little world falling apart."
Posted: 4678 days ago
Karl (#5457)
Location: New York
Posted: 4678 days ago
Mary Rose (#2854)
Location: San Francisco, CA
Quote: "go big or stay home"
Posted: 4678 days ago
Adam Wookee (#4571)
Location: Denver, CO
Quote: "There is no shame in losing to a clever opponent.....And I make it a point to someday kill my clever opponents."
Posted: 4678 days ago
One tiny little complaint though: Went to IMDB for the movie and Sneaky Pete's henchwoman is named "3" not "@"
I'm totally :( about that.
Joanna (#5296)
Location: Seattle, WA
Quote: ""The wise man despises no one. Instead, he watches him closely and tries to discover the roots of what he sees." (Gogol, Dead Souls)"
Posted: 4678 days ago
coolpillows (#3749)
Location: new york general sort of vicinity
Quote: ""It's not working" -- Joseph Clark"
Posted: 4677 days ago
I'm in the city every day...I could stop by the set. If I do, I'll behave myself. But please tell your bodyguards, tazing will give me a heart attack.
Congrats...enjoy every single second of it!
lee
Ben (#3924)
Location: Alberta, Canada
Quote: "I don't wanna ride the elevator."
Posted: 4677 days ago
Brittany O. (#1688)
Location: Montana
Quote: "people are kind of overrated "
Posted: 4677 days ago
I miss simple technology and do not want to have to join "twitter" to watch your "tweets".
Could we go back to the cool Maxx where this blog was how we connected?
:-(
Jack Brownfield (#5166)
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Quote: "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
Posted: 4677 days ago
Can't wait to see the movie and your cameo!
Katie Ellert (#207)
Location: Calgary AB Canada
Quote: "Where's Lola? WHERE'S LOLA?!?!"
Posted: 4677 days ago
I am so excited for this! (and for you of course)
Randy (#2374)
Location: Ravena, NY
Quote: "I could write a book about being lazy. I just don't feel like it."
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JBBdude (#1884)
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Swkoll (#5394)
Location: USA
Quote: ":)"
Posted: 4674 days ago
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