Tampa Book Buzz

michael palmer, myspace and me

For the past few weeks, I’ve been drowning in a sea of social networking site requests, spam and a million of those god-awful Facebook requests. (Please go poke, tickle, hug and zing yourself and leave me out of it.) I was actually thinking about quitting the social networking game.

Then something happened.

Someone messaged me through MySpace to thank me for listing him as one of my favorite authors. I didn’t recognize the MySpace ID and the photo didn’t ring any bells, so I looked at his MySpace profile. It was Michael Palmer. MICHAEL PALMER. New York Times bestselling author. Real-life M.D. Author of Side Effects, Silent Treatment, Extreme Measures, Fatal and more. One of my all-time favorite authors who is listed in every one of my online “Favorite Author” lists. MICHAEL FREAKIN’ PALMER.

MP saw his name on my MySpace profile and messaged me. After I picked myself up off of the floor, I sent him the goofiest, gushiest fan note ever. I got to tell him (nicely, of course) that it’s his fault that I was slightly creeped out during a recent hospital stay. (I read Flashback, The Sisterhood and Side Effects back-to-back during my teenybopper years and was scarred for life — and addicted to Palmer’s books — because of it.)

Being the ruthless, self-promoting blogger that I am, I tried to wheedle my way into an interview and onto his mailing list, his publicist’s mailing list and anything else I could think of.

And guess what?

He agreed to an interview and gave me his email address! (His email address could very well be published on his MySpace page and on his website, but I prefer to believe that it’s not and that I’m way cool for having it.)

What a great Christmas present. Thank you TPTB (The Powers That Be)!

That’s enough blogging for now. I’ve got to go check my MySpace page…and Facebook…and LinkedIn…and…