March 16th! Heart of Glass Reading and Book Signing
Hello Everyone! Heart of Glass will be published on March 15th! And I’m doing my first reading and book signing at the amazing Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena, California. If you live in the Los Angeles area or are planning a visit, I’d love to see you there! Reception to follow!
Fresh from the publisher! My first copies of the new Chanel paperback which includes the first chapter of the sequel Heart of Glass! The books will be available two weeks from today and will be featured at Hudson News in airports all over the country! I think Gallery did a lovely job. And I absolutely love the Tiffany blue. That’s my mother on the cover and Robbie and I in the inset photo. I hope you like Chanel and will look forward to Heart of Glass which is being published in March, 2016.
This is an early proof copy of the new paperback cover for Chanel due out this summer! The reissue will include the first chapter of the sequel, HEART OF GLASS! That’s my mom on Lyford Cay with Robbie and me in the inset. The photos were taken by Pop, my once-upon-a-time stepfather Oliver Rea (note the misspelling of his name on the credit). Should be out in July in time to take to the beach!
HEART OF GLASS, the sequel to Chanel Bonfire is on its way! I turned in the manuscript to my wonderful editor and publisher just before Thanksgiving and am hard at work on the notes. Look for updates during the year on the progress and some sneak peeks at the story. Publication is set for January 2016!
In 1989 I got my first job on Broadway, understudying in The Heidi chronicles. I went on in January of 1990 and then took over my roles in February and began a wonderful nine months with the play.
Researching the sequel to Chanel, “Heart of Glass”, (and trying to remember what happened!) it’s been marvelous to revisit the play I did on Broadway, and learn more about Wendy Wasserstein. I fondly recall her kindness to me, her marvelous laugh, and all those times she took the cast to Sardi’s and Orso. The Heidi Chronicles really stands up – rereading it twenty-five years later. Keep the faith!
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Of all the glam bands in all the world, in platform shoes or high heels, Roxy Music was and is my all-time favorite. This album, “For Your Pleasure”, released by Island Records in 1973, was the band’s second and the last featuring Brian Eno. The woman on the cover was lead singer and songwriter Brian Ferry’s girlfriend at the time, transsexual singer and model Amanda Lear. Judi Dench’s voice can be heard at the end of the title track saying, “You don’t ask. You don’t ask why.”
I bought the album with my own money at the WH Smith in Sloane Square and played it until the grooves wore out. That copy is lost now–a casualty of a peripatetic childhood and young adulthood. I may very well have left it in a taxi stuffed into one of the Bloomingdales bags I used to move apartments at a moment’s notice in New York in the early 80s. More of that in the sequel to Chanel which will be coming your way sometime next year from Gallery Books.
