A few weeks ago, my publicist called to say they’d like to make a video to promote 500 Acres and No Place to Hide. I thought it was a terrific idea and immediately said, sure! I figured they’d tape me reading a chapter or two in a nice, air conditioned book store, surrounded by a group of my good friends, lots of baked brie, crackers, and several chilled bottles of J Lohr chardonnay.
I figured wrong.
On a very beautiful Friday, a camera man came to my house to videotape me doing “farm things.” This unnerved me greatly because, as you well know, I do my best not to do farm things. Sure, I do them. But not willingly. And certainly not with a camera in my face.
Correction: Two cameras in my face.
Award-winning, (and nerve-wrackingly cute), Doug Gritzmacher taped me running around the farm feeding the polo ponies and directing cattle, and the beautiful, talented, (and completely calming) Kimberly Petro caught Doug catching me.
The ponies really liked Doug.
And they really would’ve liked to get in the car with Kim.
They liked me, too, I think, though it could’ve just been the carrots.
As for the cattle, they couldn’t have cared less. (Of course if I’d thought to bring range cubes it would’ve been a whole different bottle of barbecue sauce.)
When the video is done, I’ll post it here and on Facebook. I hope you enjoy it, and 500 Acres. Oh, and in case you’re wondering? It was Louboutin’s for the interview and Stuart Weiztman wedges for the farm stuff. A snapped heel I can’t handle. But a broken ankle? Eh.
Enjoyed the first book and am looking forward to the second! Had a similar
move from suburbia to the woods and no high-speed internet, but without
ANY computer networking, I’da hightailed it back to suburbia. Even
HugesNet (or in my case, Wildblue) can save a terrible to waste mind!
Right now, the antennae for our satellite dish is being moved to improve
our HD reception. If a fire occurs, we grab the dog and hope all important
papers are in duplicate at our attorney’s office.
Keep the laughs coming my way (in print) and good luck,
cynthia smith