You Know You're Crazy-Busy When You Have No Time To "Brag"
I'm completing "Good Manners For Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck" for St. Martin's Press, due July 8, and working wild hours (5 a.m. to 9 p.m. yesterday on my book and my column deadline).
Because of that, I didn't get around to posting the results from Sunday night's LA Press Club Awards, which I'll post now.
My advice columns, which I hope you read in your local paper, garnered a first, a second, and a third place award in the 55th annual Southern California Journalism Awards.
The judges wrote about my first place-winning series of columns:
"This is informational, insightful, provocative and entertaining -- everything you want in great commentary. The work is polished, the style conversational. The laugh-out-loud logic is unique because writing with humor is extremely challenging. Doing it well is worthy of note."
Way to go, Amy! Good for you!! How many does this make, now, anyway? You must have a boatload!!
Flynne at June 26, 2013 8:28 AM
Awesome!
momof4 at June 26, 2013 8:41 AM
That's great Amy--congrats!!
the other Beth at June 26, 2013 8:45 AM
Fantastic! That is the way to do it.
But you'll have to move soon so you can have an "I love me" wall for all your awards. ;-)
Jim P. at June 26, 2013 8:48 AM
Congratulations! Give yourself an extra helping of bacon to celebrate.
Martin at June 26, 2013 8:55 AM
That's our Advice Goddess! Congratulations, Miss Alkon!
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at June 26, 2013 8:57 AM
Congratulations Amy. Speaking as a fairly courteous person who occasionally curses, I'm looking forward to your new book.
factsarefacts at June 26, 2013 9:08 AM
Excellent and well deserved.
FBMc at June 26, 2013 9:59 AM
Congratulations Amy. I've been enjoying your column for 10 years and no other advice column
has the straight on fact based, common sense, world wise info delivered with humor, a dash of sarcasm and mirror of irony.
Doug at June 26, 2013 11:29 AM
Congratulations, Amy! Very well-deserved.
JD at June 26, 2013 11:42 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/06/26/you_know_youre.html#comment-3769871">comment from JDThank you so much!
And a request: Please read my column in newspapers and request it if it doesn't run in yours -- either from the editor of the alt weekly or the features editor of the daily.
Amy Alkon
at June 26, 2013 11:47 AM
We have two alt-weeklies in Seattle: The Seattle Weekly (sold by Village Voice Media to Sound Publishing) and The Stranger. Even though your sharp, funny writing would be an excellent fit for The Stranger's younger demographic, I highly doubt they'd consider running your column since they already have Dan Savage (who is also the paper's editor.) But the Weekly might. They carry Dategirl and, while I like the fact that she's not as wedded to ev-psych as you are (and she can be funny at times), I think your writing is far superior to hers. So I'll put in a pitch for you to the Weekly.
JD at June 26, 2013 12:40 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/06/26/you_know_youre.html#comment-3769971">comment from JDThank you, JD. And I'm not "wedded to ev-psych"; I look for research that seems solid, and evolutionary psychology -- that the way we behave involves evolutionary adaptations to help us be most fit for an environment -- seems to support why we behave in various ways, why we feel certain emotions, etc.
I'm reading a number of studies by evolutionary psychologist and psychiatrist Randy Nesse now. He's a very, very interesting thinker, who notes that ALL emotions seem to be adaptive, even sadness, anxiety. They are signals for action we should or should not take, much like the "Check Oil" light on your dashboard (an example he gives).
Amy Alkon
at June 26, 2013 1:26 PM
Well deserved! I can't wait for the new book! I still giggle like a loon when I read the first one.
Sabrina at June 27, 2013 11:54 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/06/26/you_know_youre.html#comment-3771864">comment from SabrinaAww, thank you Sabrina. Please consider saying so on Amazon. They aren't removing the one-star "reviews" from people who haven't read the book, so reviews from people who actually have will help bring up my star rating to what it would be if it were actually about the book (and not attempts to hurt me).
Amy Alkon
at June 27, 2013 12:47 PM
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