#thanks
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!
May 30th, 2017
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.
The Toughest Question My Daughter Has Asked Me (So Far)
A great series over at Medium about the tough questions kids ask. I wrote about the first time my daughter caught me crying.
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!
Catapult Community | “You don’t have to be mean to be funny”: Courtney Maum on Writing Humor
This talk was so fun!
My online class (”How to be funny. Seriously.”) has a few spots left if you want to join us!
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.
Susie MacMurray, Medusa (2014 - 2015).
Art Museum, Des Moines, Iowa, 1969
(I.M. Pei + Partners)