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3 years, 19 versions, 6 title changes and a gazillion ink cartridges later, #TOUCH galleys are going out today from Putnam Books! Still can't believe I did it. Very excited to hear what you all think!

#putnam #touch #courtney maum #sally kim #summer books

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May 30th, 2017

#touch #courtney maum #putnam books #sally kim #rebecca gradinger #novels #summer reads #internet addiction

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My name under Adam Driver's nipples! Tom Burr's glorious face (and work!) in lights! So excited to have our chat about conceptual art, Crate & Barrel, the de-sexualization of urban meeting places and cacti anger published in this month's Interview Magazine.

#Interview Magazine #Tom Burr #conceptual art #dressage #adam driver

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A great series over at Medium about the tough questions kids ask. I wrote about the first time my daughter caught me crying.

#parenting #pixar #brain freeze #motherhood #angst #inside out

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Hi everyone! I hope you're having a relaxing and restorative long weekend. I wanted to let you know that my first novel, I AM HAVING SO MUCH FUN HERE WITHOUT YOU, is today's Amazon Kindle #dailydeal. Cool bonus: you get the first chapter of my new book, TOUCH, when you order!

#kindle #kindle daily deal #amazon #i am having so much fun here without you #touch #touchstone #G.P Putnam #Sally Kim #debut novels #weekend reads

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This talk was so fun!

My online class (”How to be funny. Seriously.”) has a few spots left if you want to join us!

#catapult #humor writing #online fiction classes #open genre #satire

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Because it’s a question that I’ve been struggling with myself over the past three years, my second book (a satire about the effect of technology on our interpersonal relationships) attempts to ask whether our humanity can save our inhumanity.

I have both hope and trepidation this fall, leading not only up to November 8th, but towards our future as a country.

But today, I have hope. Because it is a powerful and hard-won feeling to have worked hard on something that someone read, and connected with, and was able to illustrate in ways I never could.

I love this cover by Rodrigo Corral. I love my publisher for believing in me enough to hire him. I love the fact that I am lucky enough to have a publisher, and an editor, and a great agent, who want me to keep working.

Writing is hard work; don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. But once in a while, if you *do* work hard enough, you get a moment like this.

TOUCH is forthcoming in June, 2017.

#TOUCH #Courtney Maum #I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You #Rodrigo Corral #Putnam #Sally Kim #Rebecca Gradinger #Internet addiction

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Susie MacMurray, Medusa (2014 - 2015). 

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Art Museum, Des Moines, Iowa, 1969

(I.M. Pei + Partners)

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"In many large ways, it’s almost as if we have collectively stopped planning for the future. Instead, we all just sort of bounce along in the present, caught in the headlights of a tomorrow pushed by a few large corporations and shaped by the inescapable logic of hyper-efficiency — a future heading straight for us. It’s not just future shock; we now have future blindness."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/07/technology/why-we-need-to-pick-up-alvin-tofflers-torch.html

#futurism #nevertrump #future shock #alvin toffler

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#gunsense

#policychange before #prayers

#gunsense #pulse

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fruity fruity bling bling

#nail art #paris fashion week

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I got to play with a the big kids and review a novel (”Amateurs” by Dylan Hicks) for the New York Times Review of Books.

#amateurs #dylan hicks #new york times #new york times review of books #literary fiction

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Netflix and chill and thrill me to pieces: the feature film I wrote with my husband is out on Netflix! Let us know what you think!

(It’s called “Bob and the Trees”)

#Netflix #Sundance #Bob and the Trees #Courtney Maum #Diego Ongaro

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A mike drop from author Marie-Helene Bertino!

“Writing a novel is like picnicking in a windstorm. Every time you batten one corner down, another flies up. Battening that one down, another one comes loose. Eventually you give up and eat macaroni salad off your lap in the car. The novel is what you see out the windshield.“

More from the kindhearted genius, Marie-Helene, here.

#marie-helene bertino #2 am at the cat's pyjamas

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The squirrels here have crazy hairdos.