OK, I've been busy before. I've been really busy before. But this is whole new levels of busy and frankly, it's ridiculous. Scarlet launches on Friday and the press interest has been incredible.
The Daily Mail were outraged - something I was immensely proud of, as you know you're doing something right if you can attract Daily Mail outrage. The Guardian ran an appallingly badly researched and mean piece, written entirely based on what the Mail had said, by a woman who didn't bother to look at the magazine or speak to anyone on the team.
On Friday, I was on Richard and Judy with my Deputy Editor and Creative Director (both of whom looked effortlessly glamorous to my 'gesticulating like a wild thing TV nervousness' I thought I'd got the TV thing sorted and didn't feel nervous - well, not much. Come on, R&J are TV icons - but watching the tape afterwards I looked nervous as hell.) Richard and Judy were lovely - they really are as nice in real life as they seem on TV. Everyone went to the green room to have beers after the show and they were both chatting to us happily (and willingly accepting a bag of sex toys and telling us some stories of their own about a trip to a US sex shop) And today, The Sunday Times ran a piece that was pretty positive.
Sadly, media interest doesn't make any difference to deadlines. I still have issue two of the mag to get out and, with the deadline pretty much 'right now', taking time out to do interviews means that sleep has been lowest on the list of priorities. Particularly given that I've still had odds and sods of freelancing going on: proposals for a possible new book I've been asked to write, tweaks to the Lovers' Guide script and various other shagging related pieces.
But it hasn't all been boring work - I've had a couple of fun nights out at press dos: one at the Cinnamon Club - a fab Indian restaurant - to launch a new warming KY Jelly. As it's designed to 'heat up couples sex lives' all the journos were allowed to take a partner with them, so I could fit a date into work time (luckily, new man is as busy as I am so understands about stupid workload). And there have been various champagne reception things, which are good fun - well, it is free champagne - so I can understand how people in women's mags seem to have such glam lives. It's not about being rich, it's about being schmoozed by PRs.
But at the end of the day, no matter how fun the work event, it is still work. I need a holiday, where I can escape everything - and soon.
Posted by emilyd at October 17, 2004 05:56 PM