Ready or not
No turning back now. After a fairly stressful couple of weeks, I have just sold my book to Scribner. Among the many exciting things about this is that I'm now sharing an editor with my high school English teacher.
Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Strange Pop Culture of the Religious Right (assuming the title sticks) will be out in the year 2008. No one knows the day or hour.
[Update: The new, more accurate subtitle is Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture. The pub date is April 8.]
Comments
WAY TO GO DANIEL!!!!!!
Can't wait! When you are famous I can say "I knew him 'When'".....He wasn't married to my daughter, didn't have kids, could go a whole hour without asking someone if they want to go potty! Daniel, we are so proud!!!!
Posted by: Lue | December 1, 2005 11:21 AM
I've never met this person in my life.
Posted by: radosh | December 1, 2005 11:33 AM
You only WISH you hadn't!!!!
Posted by: Lue | December 1, 2005 12:02 PM
Yes, I do have to go - it's about time somebody asked me!
Posted by: Random Stranger | December 1, 2005 12:30 PM
If that illustration teaches me one thing, it's that I really want to be standing near the grounds of a fundamentalist all-girl high school when the Rapture comes.
I won't need those mirrors on my shoetops any more!
Posted by: The Confidence Man | December 1, 2005 1:55 PM
... and also, of course, congratulations!
Dunno if you'd seen this item yet:
http://www.campusprogress.org/features/650/right-wing-rock
The US Dept of Ed is apparently funding fundie bands now.
Posted by: The Confidence Man | December 1, 2005 2:19 PM
Hey, congrats, Daniel. I can't wait to read it, especially if it has more illustrations like that one. Hubba freakin' hubba! (Exactly how do I sign up for this thing again?)
Posted by: Vance | December 1, 2005 4:50 PM
If the rapture means getting rid of all the women who are too goody-goody to sleep around, bring it on, I say. Oh, and congratulations.
Posted by: Francis | December 1, 2005 4:53 PM
Thank god. Congratulations to you both.
Let me know if you need shopping help--you know how I love peculiar bookstores.
I'm v. excited for you!
Posted by: Alexandra | December 1, 2005 6:22 PM
Congratulations. Can I assume the book will have a mention of the Jesus Sports Statues or are they now so well known that they have a late-to-the-party air about them?
Posted by: Steve | December 1, 2005 7:44 PM
wow are these Xtians crazy, or what!?
Posted by: MartyB | December 2, 2005 10:26 AM
Congrats, Daniel!
Posted by: Andrew Hearst | December 2, 2005 12:57 PM
Congrats, Daniel! You make is seem easy. (Except for that thing where you wrote about hard hard it was.)
Posted by: Squidocto | December 2, 2005 1:03 PM
I'm shrivelling up like a walnut.
Posted by: Peter Landesman's Penis | December 2, 2005 2:53 PM
Congratulations!
One can only hope that when faced directly with the degraded culture produced by modern zealots the rank and file will turn away en masse.
Posted by: TG Gibbon | December 2, 2005 4:26 PM
COME BACK, ARRCHIEEEEE!
Posted by: nitpicker | December 2, 2005 7:15 PM
Congrats Dude.
Posted by: David Feige | December 3, 2005 6:45 PM
Congrats Dude.
Posted by: David Feige | December 3, 2005 6:46 PM
Wow...that's cool, cause the only thing I share with my high school English teacher is a shrink and a Xanax addiction.
Posted by: Lauren | December 4, 2005 8:31 PM
yay!! congrats!!
Posted by: marjorie | December 6, 2005 12:38 PM
The "Rapture Index" (on Rapture Ready), which Tim (Left Behind) LaHaye loves, is helping to fulfill the most important endtime "sign" in Matt. 24: DECEPTION. If the RI would add up the total numerical value of its own deception, it would self-destruct! Actually it should be called the "Second Advent Index" since the "precursors" are fulfilled during the tribulation and point to only the final advent and not to a supposed "pretrib" coming that no pre-1830 church ever taught. At the same time, RI author Todd Strandberg declares that his "pretrib" rapture is "signless" - which is believable if "precursors" can't be signs! Jon
Posted by: Jon Edwards | August 5, 2006 1:07 AM
hi don't know who you are but cool picture yeah the rapture is closer now then ever. God bless you dude
Posted by: Faith Freak | August 24, 2009 5:17 PM