LBD Week: Author Guest Post - A. M. Goldsher
As part of our Little Black Dress week, we’ve been lucky enough to have some wonderful guest posts from some of their authors written just for us. Now comes the turn of A. M. Goldsher whose latest 2010 release No Ordinary Girl was loved by me, so here is the post!
“ME ‘N’ L.B.D by Alan Goldsher.
The whole A.M. Goldsher/Little Black Dress Books thing was an accident. A happy accident, granted, but an accident nonetheless.
The True Naomi Story, my first title for L.B.D., began its life not as a chicklit book, but rather as a dude novel called Jam. Soon after it hit bookstores, a former literary agent of mine suggested I rewrite it from the perspective of a woman. Turned out the protagonist was more interesting as a girl, and L.B.D., out of the kindness of their hearts, offered me a three-book deal, with the proviso that they publish the books under the gender-nonspecific pseudonym of A.M. Goldsher. (No Ordinary Girl, my latest for L.B.D., was released under A.M. rather than Alan, but as you can see, I’ve been outed as a man, possibly because the superhero battles throughout were pretty dude-like, and some intrepid reader would’ve probably figured it out anyhow.)
I’ve now written four books for L.B.D., and look forward to more, in part because my awesome former editor Cat Cobain and my equally awesome current editor Claire Baldwin have been nothing but supportive and sweet. Since book one, they’ve let me be as creative and as weird as I’ve wanted, and I think that’s enabled me to write freely, without ever having to worry that a scene in which, say, my heroine throws her former lover 50 meters in the air, into the middle of Lake Michigan will be questioned. Many editors like to have their fingerprints all over their books, but L.B.D. just wants you to write the best book possible. It’s not about ego, it’s about quality, and that’s not always the case in today’s publishing world. All of which makes me the luckiest dude-chicklit writer on the planet.”
Thanks so much Alan!
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