Last night my friend L. mentioned that she was looking in Marie Claire magazine and saw that my novel, Hollywood Car Wash, was mentioned in the "Pop Culture Pyramid" as a Guilty Pleasure. This is exactly the kind of thing I like to mention under the auspices of "Shameless Self Promotion," because if you don't hear about it from me and you don't happen to read Marie Claire, how are you going to hear about it??? Also, in case I didn't make a whole separate blog post about it, Publisher's Weekly called this new version of the book "Glammy [and] dishy….a beach read shoo-in."
Dude, if that's not motivation enough to make you pre-order it on Amazon.com, since it comes out on May 5th, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.
In other "Hollywood Car Wash" related news, if you look under "Used Versions" in that Amazon listing, I kid you not, you will see that someone in Florida is selling one of the old versions of this novel for $186. It was my agent who told me this news, which he followed immediately with the (valid) question: "is that person in Florida actually you?"
So, just to set the record straight, no– it's not me, but I think it's pretty cool nonetheless. A collector's item!