Category: Autos

  • Trolling for Titles

    As I mentioned in my last post, Nicole the Mistress of Marketing told me at our first meeting about my book that I had a terrible title. I had been calling it A Car of One’s Own, a nod to Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. Turns out most women are not so up on their century-old feminist…

  • Putting My Money Where My Pen Is

    I wrote a draft of A Car of One’s Own last year and shopped it around to agents, to no avail. It’s a weird length at 30,000 words, and it’s not the kind of book a person would buy at Barnes and Noble for $15. It’s a tough sell for an agent. Publishing it electronically myself…

  • Ladies Love Cool Bikes

    Only 11 percent of motorcycle riders are women, according to this MSN Autos blog post, but that number is growing every year. Between 2003 and 2009, there was a 45 percent increase in chicks on bikes — and not in the bitch seat. [shudder] What do women buyers look for in a motorcycle? It’s not…

  • Automotive Art at the Museum

    Sometimes I get to write articles with fascinating story lines, long-ish word counts, and fantastic pictures. Like this one for the New York Times Autos section, on the Allure of the Automobile at Portland Art Museum. The cars themselves were great, beautiful, worthy of art museum treatment. But the really interesting part came in talking…