Dear Friends and Fellow Readers,
For months now, I’ve been entertaining you with stories from my upcoming memoir, Daughter of Spies. I’m hoping these have whetted your appetite for the book itself due out on October 25th, one week from today. That’s THE PUBLICATION DAY, the moment when the memoir finally becomes widely available in bookstores and online.
I know many of you have already pre-ordered the book for which I’m deeply grateful. This newsletter is the big ask.
- If you haven’t pre-ordered, please buy the book at Politics and Prose or Regal House.
- Please review it on Amazon or Goodreads or Bookshop.org
- Come to one of my events, tune into one of my podcast interviews,
- Find one of my guest columns in Publishers Weekly or Writers Digest or on Zibby Owens’ website.
My events page has it all. Please spread the word on social media and to your friends by word of mouth. Please recommend it to your book club as I love speaking to groups of interested readers.
Everybody is asking, Why Tim Gunn? It certainly will not be a discussion of my fashionable outfits. His father was number 2 at the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover and his mother was a librarian at the CIA. Soon after we met in our local diner, we discovered how entwined our family roots are. We went to the same elementary school (he’s younger than I) and grew up five blocks from one another. We’re pretty sure his father wrote the report on my uncle, a closeted homosexual entrapped by the KGB, in a “kompromat” in Moscow in 1958. So we both grew up in the murky underworld that was 1950s Cold War Washington and know many of the same characters from that era. It should be an interesting conversation. Tim has written many books, but this Kindle Single, Shaken, Not Stirred speaks to those times in an honest and elegant way. Although I can proudly lay claim to five brothers, I’ve appointed him my honorary sixth.
Thank you all so much for whatever you can do especially in these busy weeks before the midterm elections. I have a feeling the question I might be asked most often in the days ahead is what would your father and uncle feel about the current political situation in America? More than any other time in our history, I wish they were here to answer that question themselves.
