My own novel, Love on the Big Screen, now available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble

On Monday night Jan. 17 at the Fresh Meadows Barnes and Noble at 7:30, we’ll be discussing Rob Sheffield’s Love is a Mix Tape. We’d love to have you join us either face-to-face in the store or else here online with a comment to this blog post.  I also want to share that my novel, Love on the Big Screen, is now available in the states online through Amazon or Barnes and Noble and soon to be available internationally.  Coming soon to Kindle and Nook.

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Rob Sheffield / The Guy:

• What do you think of the Rob Sheffield you meet in the book?  His relationship with Renee?
• If you finished the book, what was it that kept you listening to Rob’s story?
• “I listen to Hey Jude now, and I think two things:  I never want to hear this song again, and in 1979, my dad was around the age I am now, and given a Saturday afternoon he could have spent anyway he pleased, he chose to spend it with his twelve-year-old son, making this ridiculous little tape.  He probably forgot about it the next day.  But I didn’t.”  (17)
• “How do you turn down the volume on your personal-drama earphones and learn how to listen to other people?”

Love:

• Do you have a wish list for a potential romantic partner?  Is this sort of mental exercise helpful when it comes to navigating love? (67)
• When you get married, you hope__________? (129)
• “If she breaks my heart, no matter what the hell she puts me through, I can say it was worth it, just because of right now.”  (70)
• What did/do you and your romantic partners fight about?  (102)
• How do you know when it’s love? (4)

Music:

• Did/do you make mix tapes?  Tell us about them?
• Did your parents listen to music?  If you listen, how did you find your way into what you listen to?  Why _______ and not ________?
• That night, I learned the hard way:  If the girls keep dancing, everybody’s happy.  If the girls don’t dance, nobody’s happy. (34)

Sheffield writes, before Murphy's death, "Remember Brittany Murphy..." / from TheJC.Com

Death / Life:

• What would you leave behind? (10)
• The moment when we find out what happened to Renee. (14)  What book did you think you were going to read?
• Remember Brittany Murphy, the funny, frizzy-haired, Mentos-loving dork in Clueless? By 2002, she was the hood ornament in 8 Mile, just another skinny starlet, an index of everything we’ve lost in that time. (215)
• Some hope in tragedy:  “We know the universe is out to burn us, and it gets us all the way it got Renee, but we don’t burn each other, not always.”  (167)