Last to Know
1 September 2010
I don’t think I’ve ever discovered anything.
I’m never the friend who knows about great new bands, restaurants, blogs, travel destinations, anything. Even when I think I discover something, I quickly realize no, I didn’t. Like when I happened across a Sarah Dessen novel at Barnes and Noble about 6 years ago. I really thought I was getting in on the ground floor. Um, no. By that time she already had a wildly successful blog, and two of her books were being turned into a movie starring Mandy Moore. So…
This point was further hammered home to me when I met my new YA writer friend, Nicole. She’s seriously too cool for me, so I’m not sure that our friendship has much of a chance. For starters, she read Twilight ages ago. (I read them because I got tired of saying I hadn’t.) And then she made some casual comment about how she has problems opening “Word” instead of “Facebook, Pioneer Woman, Photoshop.” Which left me saying, “Um … what’s Pioneer Woman?”
Turns out it’s this whole phenomenon that I can tell, after like three minutes of browsing her blog, I’m totally going to love. And I’m so making this Layered Salad. Just the pictures have me salivating. (I’m way impressed by food pictures. I’ve tried and they are hard to take.)
I think my only chance of discovering anything will be if my daughter becomes an insanely successful writer. Because I’ll be able to say, “Yes, I totally saw that coming.”
Have you ever discovered a phenomenon before it really took off?
Comments
Wouldn’t that be a great thing to claim? :)
I got in pretty early on the Julie Lessman buzz, but I was still about 4 or 5 months behind you.
Posted by Stephanie Morrill on 1 September 2010
Oo, oo, I discovered Julie Lessman first! (Well, I mean, after Revell . . .) I talked to her at conference in ’07 before her book came out, got a copy the week before it released, and was totally singing her praises before the rest of the masses. Ditto for Julie Klassen, when I got an ARC. If only I could claim my reviews made their careers. Sigh. ;-)
Posted by Roseanna White on 1 September 2010