Hi there!
My name is Liz Funk and I’m the author of the new book "Supergirls Speak Out: Inside the Secret Crisis of Overachieving Girls," published on March 3rd by Simon and Schuster. I’ll be one of the Lit Klatsch bloggers this week at Jewcy, and I’m really excited to write about overachieving girls, the pressure on young women to be perfect, feminism, privilege, college, 20-somethings at work, recent news, and whatever else I feel like that day (my excessive and chronic over-consumption of coffee, diet Coke, and Red Bull has cost me my focused thinking, thus, expect the unexpected).
Religion has played a surprisingly large role in my process of having a book published and promoting my book. In April 2007, on my way to a meeting with a publisher interested in my book, and stuck in traffic, I prayed that I wouldn’t be late; I wasn’t late. I prayed that a publisher would buy my proposal; S&S’s Touchstone imprint did. I appeared on NBC’s Today Show last month, and the congregation at my church prayed for me the Sunday before. As I sat in the tall white chairs in Studio 1A in Rockefeller Plaza before the cameras starting rolling, I folded my hands and discreetly talked to God for a minute, asking him to get behind me and help me not screw up the high point of my career thus far. Halfway into my prayer, the other guest on the segment commented that it would be been nicer if we had been seated on the Today Show couch for our interview, and I agreed, "Yeah, that would have been better, my feet don’t even touch the bar on these high chairs." Then Meredith Viera came over and started talking with us, and I forgot all about my prayer. To my elation, God did in fact get behind me, because I’ve been told I did well in the interview.
Now, for the first installment of a few days of shameless self-promotion, I’ll be doing a book signing at the Wall Street Borders Bookstore tomorrow (3/10) in the Financial District in Manhattan, on Broadway between Pine Street and Wall Street from 1pm to 2:30ish. Feel free to stop by during your lunch hour!
Liz Funk, author of Supergirls Speak Out!, is guest blogging on Jewcy, and she’ll be here all week. Stay tuned.