Emily's Blog
Saturday, February 19
Friday, February 18
INTRODUCING SOBO DIRECTOR LUKE GREENFIELD!
SOBO DIRECTOR LUKE GREENFIELD'S LETTER TO YOU! Reply in the thread below and he will select his favorite reply and send you a movie poster!!
What’s up, Darcy, Rachel, Claire, Ethan & Dex’s out there!!!
My name is Luke Greenfield and yes, I am a recovering addict of the Emily Giffin “Something” Series. And yes, I admit I’m a Rachel not a Darcy. I’m writing you from Warner Brothers studios in LA where we’re putting the final touches on the movie, “Something Borrowed.” And yes, you’ll find the movie to be an incredibly genuine adaptation of the book we all love so much.
So here’s the great news: The studio is ready to make the sequel, “Something Blue” in London! All casting ideas are welcome for the supporting roles to join John Krasinski as Ethan and Kate Hudson as Darcy.
So here’s what we need: On May 6th, we need EVERYONE to go see “Something Borrowed” in theaters on opening weekend! Do NOT sit at home and wait for the DVD or Giffin & I will come to your house and yank you out of your livingrooms. Take your family, take your friends, even the friends that annoy you! We need “Something Borrowed” to open BIG so we can start shooting the sequel right away.
And for all you die-hard fans, there’s a little something special just for you after the ending credits – Shhhhh! So DON’T leave the theater before the credits!
More to come… I’m just getting’ warmed up here!
Best, Luke
REPLY TO LUKE TO WIN A MOVIE POSTER!
Thursday, February 17
Rent the Runway Winner!
Congrats to Farrah N. for winning a red-carpet look from Rent the Runway! Farrah projects that either Mila Kunis or Natalie Portman will be best dressed (Black Swan fan?!). Let's see if she's right! Farrah--be sure to send us photos of your own look from Oscar night! Thanks again to RTR for the generous prize!
Tuesday, February 15
5 Do's and a Do-Over
CHICK LIT IS NOT DEAD PRESENTS: EMILY GIFFIN’S 5 DO’S AND A DO-OVER
5 DO’S
1. Invest in a quality camera and capture lots of random moments. Other than actually making the memories, there are few things more important to me than recording them. At times I feel as if I’m living the moment through the lens of a camera, but I never regret the photographs later.
2. Live alone at least once. It is great fun having roommates and I’m a big believer in living with boyfriends if it feels right. And of course, it is wonderful to be married and build a home and life with another person. But I will always cherish the few years of my twenties in which I lived completely alone, and I think everyone should enjoy this serenity and independence at some point in their lives.
3. Travel somewhere exotic and unexpected. There are certain obvious destinations that everyone should try to see–London, Rome, Paris, the Grand Canyon. But try visiting a place off the beaten path–a place that isn’t so obvious and that few, if any, of your family and friends have ventured. For me, this list includes swimming in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland, celebrating Midsummer’s Eve on a remote island in Sweden, and wandering through the tiny medieval streets of Bruges. In addition to actually having these experiences, it makes for great cocktail party fodder.
4. Break a heart and have yours broken. It is part of life and everyone should experience both. So live and love with wild abandon until both happen to you at least once.
5. Cut bait on toxic friendships. Although there are few things as precious as old friends, don’t become so nostalgic and sentimental that you maintain unhealthy ones. Life is too short, and if a “friend” consistently brings you down, then she isn’t one. Jettison her and make room for a new one.
1 DO-OVER
One of my favorite quotes is by Mark Twain:
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
I so believe in this, but it took me a while to really internalize the truth of it. I wish I could go back to my twenties and apply this philosophy. Live life a little more on the edge, instead of chasing the next accomplishment and trying to please others. Fortunately, I finally figured this out–which is how I found the courage to quit my job as an attorney, move to London and write my first novel, Something Borrowed. It was a huge risk, but one of the best decisions I have ever made.
5 DO’S
1. Invest in a quality camera and capture lots of random moments. Other than actually making the memories, there are few things more important to me than recording them. At times I feel as if I’m living the moment through the lens of a camera, but I never regret the photographs later.
2. Live alone at least once. It is great fun having roommates and I’m a big believer in living with boyfriends if it feels right. And of course, it is wonderful to be married and build a home and life with another person. But I will always cherish the few years of my twenties in which I lived completely alone, and I think everyone should enjoy this serenity and independence at some point in their lives.
3. Travel somewhere exotic and unexpected. There are certain obvious destinations that everyone should try to see–London, Rome, Paris, the Grand Canyon. But try visiting a place off the beaten path–a place that isn’t so obvious and that few, if any, of your family and friends have ventured. For me, this list includes swimming in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland, celebrating Midsummer’s Eve on a remote island in Sweden, and wandering through the tiny medieval streets of Bruges. In addition to actually having these experiences, it makes for great cocktail party fodder.
4. Break a heart and have yours broken. It is part of life and everyone should experience both. So live and love with wild abandon until both happen to you at least once.
5. Cut bait on toxic friendships. Although there are few things as precious as old friends, don’t become so nostalgic and sentimental that you maintain unhealthy ones. Life is too short, and if a “friend” consistently brings you down, then she isn’t one. Jettison her and make room for a new one.
1 DO-OVER
One of my favorite quotes is by Mark Twain:
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
I so believe in this, but it took me a while to really internalize the truth of it. I wish I could go back to my twenties and apply this philosophy. Live life a little more on the edge, instead of chasing the next accomplishment and trying to please others. Fortunately, I finally figured this out–which is how I found the courage to quit my job as an attorney, move to London and write my first novel, Something Borrowed. It was a huge risk, but one of the best decisions I have ever made.
Thursday, February 3
win a red-carpet "look" from rent the runway!
It's almost time for the Academy Awards! From the red-carpet fashion to the poignant (or painfully awkward) speeches to the relationship drama (if only Jen, Brad, and Angie could be at every award show) to the thrilling contents of that little white envelope, is there anything more fun than watching the Oscars? What are your Oscar-viewing plans this year? Have you seen many of the films? Let's predict best picture, best actor and best actress! And most important, who will be best dressed and what will YOU be wearing?? (See my picks below!)
To celebrate this exciting night, I've partnered with the stylish team at Rent the Runway to offer an incredible prize: One of you will win a red-carpet look complete with a professional stylist session for your Oscar party this year (or if you plan to watch in your pjs as I do--you may use the prize for another event in the next six months--perhaps the launch of SOBO on May 6th?!).
To enter, simply answer one question: Who do you think will be best dressed on the red carpet? Let us know in the blog posts below and be sure to answer on Rent the Runway’s Facebook page (under the EG thread--be sure to "like" them first!) as they will be drawing the winning entry on Feb 21st! Good luck!
*The winner will receive a gift card from Rent the Runway in the amount of $250 to be used towards dresses and accessories. The winner will be notified via email with an e-card code. The gift card must be used within 6 months of Feb 21st.
MY PICKS:
BEST PICTURE: The King's Speech
BEST ACTOR: Colin Firth
BEST ACTRESS: Natalie Portman
BEST DRESSED: Nicole Kidman or Michelle Williams
Wednesday, February 2
SOBO trailer!
SOBO TRAILER PREMIERE!!! Finally have a date! First look will be on Entertainment Tonight on February 16th!!! I CANNOT WAIT FOR YOU ALL TO SEE IT!
Tuesday, February 1
Vanity Fair
Belles, Books, And Candor
Alan Deutschman and Iris Brosch spotlight Atlanta’s literary sorority, headed by Kathryn Stockett.
By Alan Deutscham
Photograph by Iris Brosch
February 2011
Is there a book club in America that hasn’t yet thrilled to The Help? Kathryn Stockett’s debut novel has lasted some 22 months on the New York Times hardcover fiction list—and will soon be a DreamWorks movie. “Kitty” Stockett (far right), in fact, is leading a new wave of southern female writers who might look like belles but who write fearlessly about the region’s troubled legacies of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Typically, these women left the South in their 20s, heading for New York, Chicago, or San Francisco. But in time they came home. And they’re now turning Atlanta into the most vibrant new literary scene outside of Brooklyn. Stockett is close with Susan Rebecca White—my wife, it so happens—whose first novel, Bound South, echoing The Help, gave voice to the housekeeper of a wealthy family. The pair are friends with the best-selling crime writer Karin Slaughter (whose psychologically complex thrillers are driven by her outrage about the epidemic of violence against women) and with Emily Giffin, Atlanta’s modern-day Jane Austen. Much of the literary heat emanates from Emory University, where the luminaries include Joshilyn Jackson, whose Gods in Alabama portrayed a white woman returning from Chicago with a black boyfriend, and Natasha Trethewey, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, who has reported about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on her native Gulf Coast. White belongs to a writing group that includes Jessica Handler, whose Invisible Sisters wrestled with family and death, and Sheri Joseph, who explored a gay-straight love triangle in Stray. And Amanda Gable, Joseph’s Georgia State colleague, showed in The Confederate General Rides North that after 150 years the ghosts of the Civil War still haunt the South’s prodigious literary talents. For whom do these belles toll? For all of us deprived of deep, meaningful, life-affirming stories.
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