http://sherririfkin.com Sherri Rifkin, author of LoveHampton, muses (hopefully entertainingly) about the publication of her novel and her summer in the Hamptons. Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:47:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I can't believe the "July 4th Weekend Triathlon" (LoveHampton, Chapter 8) is here already! June flew by and even though I'm staying in the Hamptons for the rest of the summer, I have a feeling that July and August are going to follow suit. I've always wanted to do this--live out here "full ... http://sherririfkin.com/2008/07/03/july-4th-weekend-triathlon/ I’m in love. It’s only been one week and two weekends (but who’s counting). However, I can safely say that this is the real deal. Maybe it will only last for three months like (too) many summer loves do, but I can already tell that every minute is going to be wonderful. Who ... http://sherririfkin.com/2008/06/03/the-summer-of-lovehampton-begins/ As of today, May 13th, 2008, my first novel, LoveHampton, goes on sale. I've been busy with lots of last minute details--let's just say that yesterday I spent serious quality time on YouTube, Facebook and Blip.TV--to be as prepared as possible for the book's official launch into the world. The last ... http://sherririfkin.com/2008/05/13/13-is-lovehamptons-lucky-number/ There's this song by Sara Melson (I can't remember how I discovered it or her...Entertainment Weekly? iTunes? KCRW? I probably heard it in an episode of Gossip Girl or The Hills, embarrassingly enough) that I can't get out my head. It's called: "Feel It Coming."   Now, before you let your mind ... http://sherririfkin.com/2008/04/25/i-hate-to-quote-lyrics-like-a-high-school-yearbook-but%e2%80%a6/ Who knew that one needed to be so thoroughly tech-savvy to be a novelist? I'm not just talking about knowing how to create chapter headers in Word (I don't but I fake it well enough). Nowadays, you have to know how to blog-vlog-flickr-twitter-facebook-wordpress-upload-youtube-blip.tv in order to be a novelist, that is, if you ... http://sherririfkin.com/2008/04/07/a-new-job-requirement-for-novelists/ Shakespeare should've made the line in Julius Caesar, "Beware the end of March," because though the "ides of March" happened fifteen days ago, this end-of-March-but-it's-still-really-cold thing is what we really have to look out for. So much worse. Sure, we changed the clocks early but in NYC it's still struggling ... http://sherririfkin.com/2008/03/30/hello-world/