Today's Winner and a Really Cool Photo
Today's winner for a choice of a signed hardcover or CD Audiobook of SETH BAUMGARTNER'S LOVE MANIFESTO is @Joyce_Lansky. Congratulations, Joyce!
If you are still interested in entering the contest to win an iPod, iTunes gift cards or signed hardcovers, CD Audiobooks or Playaway versions of my book, go on over to the post and enter. Remember, you don't need to be a good poet to enter. Give it a shot. There are several categories including a RANDOM one, so get haiku-ing! Or just repost about the contest and you're entered!
Now for something I consider to be really special. When I was recently in New Orleans (wow, that is an awesome city) I stumbled into a really incredible antique shop called M.S. Rau Antiques. It was more like a museum, actually, and the woman there, Susan, gave me a tour of the place. I can't begin to describe this collection. Okay, I'm a writer. I will. They had VanGogh paintings, a camel saddle from when Napoleon invaded Africa, a ten-foot clock that took ten years to build (how did they know if they didn't have a clock?), a skeleton of a prehistoric cave bear, George Washington's shoe buckle. The list goes on. Vastly incredible stuff. If you're curious to see more, check out the website I've linked. And if you find yourself in New Orleans, hunt this place down!
Anyhow, a week or so after leaving the store, Susan sent me the following photo:
It is an image of SETH BAUMGARTNER'S LOVE MANIFESTO sitting right next to a first-edition copy of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica. If you don't know what this is, it's one of the most important books in history, and arguably THE most important book in the history of science. It's the book in which Newton describes gravitation, lays out his three laws of motion, and dispels the doubts about heliocentrism. It's really an amazing book and I'm stunned that my own book is sitting right there next to it! Thanks Susan.
Love, I suppose, is another law of the universe... one that Newton neglected to describe. That is a matter best left to Seth.
So cool.
Oh, and as a reminder: this is book release week for SETH BAUMGARTNER'S LOVE MANIFESTO so if you've been thinking of getting a copy, it's available NOW!!!!
If you are still interested in entering the contest to win an iPod, iTunes gift cards or signed hardcovers, CD Audiobooks or Playaway versions of my book, go on over to the post and enter. Remember, you don't need to be a good poet to enter. Give it a shot. There are several categories including a RANDOM one, so get haiku-ing! Or just repost about the contest and you're entered!
Now for something I consider to be really special. When I was recently in New Orleans (wow, that is an awesome city) I stumbled into a really incredible antique shop called M.S. Rau Antiques. It was more like a museum, actually, and the woman there, Susan, gave me a tour of the place. I can't begin to describe this collection. Okay, I'm a writer. I will. They had VanGogh paintings, a camel saddle from when Napoleon invaded Africa, a ten-foot clock that took ten years to build (how did they know if they didn't have a clock?), a skeleton of a prehistoric cave bear, George Washington's shoe buckle. The list goes on. Vastly incredible stuff. If you're curious to see more, check out the website I've linked. And if you find yourself in New Orleans, hunt this place down!
Anyhow, a week or so after leaving the store, Susan sent me the following photo:
It is an image of SETH BAUMGARTNER'S LOVE MANIFESTO sitting right next to a first-edition copy of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica. If you don't know what this is, it's one of the most important books in history, and arguably THE most important book in the history of science. It's the book in which Newton describes gravitation, lays out his three laws of motion, and dispels the doubts about heliocentrism. It's really an amazing book and I'm stunned that my own book is sitting right there next to it! Thanks Susan.
Love, I suppose, is another law of the universe... one that Newton neglected to describe. That is a matter best left to Seth.
So cool.
Oh, and as a reminder: this is book release week for SETH BAUMGARTNER'S LOVE MANIFESTO so if you've been thinking of getting a copy, it's available NOW!!!!