Comments on: You Again: She’s a Type A http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/ More than you ever wanted to hear from Bestselling Author Jenny Crusie. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: ZaZa http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-260 ZaZa Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:17:15 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-260 Yeah, that "O" was bothering me, too. Looks great now. Do you get any say in the font they actually use on the book's cover? Go, Mollie! Elegant and talented as ever. Yeah, that “O” was bothering me, too. Looks great now.

Do you get any say in the font they actually use on the book’s cover?

Go, Mollie! Elegant and talented as ever.

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]]> By: Lisa http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-169 Lisa Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:02:29 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-169 Beautiful, elegant solution to take the "o" down and keep the perfect font. Very Crusie. Beautiful, elegant solution to take the “o” down and keep the perfect font. Very Crusie.

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]]> By: Marcia in OK http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-159 Marcia in OK Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:07:06 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-159 Way to go Mollie! Blog looks amazing. Way to go Mollie! Blog looks amazing.

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]]> By: Andi http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-158 Andi Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:02:30 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-158 I LOVE it!! That was my favorite, but the O was a little disturbing... problemo solved! I may not be the most creative color in the crayon box, but man I sure appreciate those that are! Way to go Jenny and Mollie! I LOVE it!! That was my favorite, but the O was a little disturbing… problemo solved! I may not be the most creative color in the crayon box, but man I sure appreciate those that are! Way to go Jenny and Mollie!

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]]> By: orangehands http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-157 orangehands Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:34:26 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-157 TT: i do what i can to help the CBs stay young. :) thanks Mollie! TT: i do what i can to help the CBs stay young. :)

thanks Mollie!

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]]> By: Eileen http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-156 Eileen Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:21:11 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-156 I love the Gorey feel to the You Again. Adore it really- then again I adore Gorey. I love the Gorey feel to the You Again. Adore it really- then again I adore Gorey.

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]]> By: Michelle http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-155 Michelle Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:33:10 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-155 So worth the wait, though. Mollie, you rock! So worth the wait, though. Mollie, you rock!

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]]> By: Jenny http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-154 Jenny Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:07:15 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-154 That would be Mollie. She designed it and then we talked about it on the phone while she tweaked it (There was orange and blue at one point, but we fixed that.) Isn't she a terrific designer? And thanks for putting up with the industrial gray while the design work was being done. It looked like cement, didn't it? That would be Mollie.
She designed it and then we talked about it on the phone while she tweaked it (There was orange and blue at one point, but we fixed that.) Isn’t she a terrific designer?
And thanks for putting up with the industrial gray while the design work was being done. It looked like cement, didn’t it?

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]]> By: roben http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-153 roben Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:44:42 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-153 Ooooh! Someone's been playing. This is very cool. Love the colors and the side bars and the neat comment thingies. Snazzzzy! Ooooh! Someone’s been playing. This is very cool. Love the colors and the side bars and the neat comment thingies. Snazzzzy!

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]]> By: Michelle http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-152 Michelle Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:18:47 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-152 I love the typefaces you chose, too. I like that the o doesn't change its shape when it goes from uppercase to lowercase, only its size. Like the core of the word almost fits with the other letters, but not quite. Could we have the director's cut version of Agnes? Please? Pretty please with sugar on top. And a cherry Dove bar, of course. I love the typefaces you chose, too. I like that the o doesn’t change its shape when it goes from uppercase to lowercase, only its size. Like the core of the word almost fits with the other letters, but not quite.

Could we have the director’s cut version of Agnes? Please? Pretty please with sugar on top. And a cherry Dove bar, of course.

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]]> By: roben http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-150 roben Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:36:56 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-150 If your ears were burning today, Jenny, I was talking to Lisa Scottoline about you. She came out here to speak to the friends of Rancho Mirage Library. Anyway, it was so funny, I was at the luncheon with another Cherry and we both said, "She sounds just like Jenny." You two have the same type of humor, plus that wonderful totally relaxed way of presenting. No wonder I love both of your writing styles. She was so interested in talking to me about romance writing that I was for once speechless. Heh. Well, almost. If your ears were burning today, Jenny, I was talking to Lisa Scottoline about you. She came out here to speak to the friends of Rancho Mirage Library. Anyway, it was so funny, I was at the luncheon with another Cherry and we both said, “She sounds just like Jenny.” You two have the same type of humor, plus that wonderful totally relaxed way of presenting. No wonder I love both of your writing styles. She was so interested in talking to me about romance writing that I was for once speechless. Heh. Well, almost.

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]]> By: Jamie H http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-149 Jamie H Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:14:51 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-149 Someone might have suggested this already, but what if Zelda was going through her life, not exactly happily but close enough to not care, when something she either sees or hears about is strongly reminescent of the image she has of her father, bringing the subject into the forefront of her consciousness? Maybe even in the Christie style, the antagonist planned for this to occur and a series of events start taking place that led her back to where whatever-it-was happened, her childhood home, making her a prime target for the predator to strike. Or maybe it's not so much of a thriller, Zelda's not really in DANGER, and I've just read too many mystery novels and and spewing them up in a couple paragraphs. Love the look of the lowercase "o". Someone might have suggested this already, but what if Zelda was going through her life, not exactly happily but close enough to not care, when something she either sees or hears about is strongly reminescent of the image she has of her father, bringing the subject into the forefront of her consciousness?

Maybe even in the Christie style, the antagonist planned for this to occur and a series of events start taking place that led her back to where whatever-it-was happened, her childhood home, making her a prime target for the predator to strike.

Or maybe it’s not so much of a thriller, Zelda’s not really in DANGER, and I’ve just read too many mystery novels and and spewing them up in a couple paragraphs.

Love the look of the lowercase “o”.

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]]> By: Diane (TT) http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-148 Diane (TT) Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:46:34 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-148 Thanks for pointing that out, OH. Those of us who were already adults in 1988 LOVE to think about that. Jenny, it's so cool that you not only craft such lovely novels but polish the details so carefully - and can explain WHY things look good and make sense or don't. Thanks! I don't deserve any extra words. I would just devour them, all at once, then re-read them over and over again. No fun, no cookies (I'm in charge of cookie eating at my house), no new life in a new story. There wouldn't even be any ruminating, for anyone searching for digestive metaphors. That's the nice thing about words - they're still intact even after you've consumed them, absorbed them, and made them part of how you think. Thanks for pointing that out, OH. Those of us who were already adults in 1988 LOVE to think about that.

Jenny, it’s so cool that you not only craft such lovely novels but polish the details so carefully – and can explain WHY things look good and make sense or don’t. Thanks!

I don’t deserve any extra words. I would just devour them, all at once, then re-read them over and over again. No fun, no cookies (I’m in charge of cookie eating at my house), no new life in a new story. There wouldn’t even be any ruminating, for anyone searching for digestive metaphors. That’s the nice thing about words – they’re still intact even after you’ve consumed them, absorbed them, and made them part of how you think.

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]]> By: orangehands http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-147 orangehands Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:02:50 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-147 That Crusie Woman. *snort* that could be the name of the movie website. my mom is still waiting for someone good to make your books into movies. glad you got the fonts picked out. ummm, about Agnes...i could, you know, take those cut words, no problem, give them a good home, feed them cookies. they'd have fun- my dorm house is party central. (you know, but good, clean partying, the place you want your kids to go) :) i was born in 88. just throwing that out there. That Crusie Woman. *snort* that could be the name of the movie website. my mom is still waiting for someone good to make your books into movies.

glad you got the fonts picked out. ummm, about Agnes…i could, you know, take those cut words, no problem, give them a good home, feed them cookies. they’d have fun- my dorm house is party central. (you know, but good, clean partying, the place you want your kids to go) :)

i was born in 88. just throwing that out there.

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]]> By: K.L. http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-145 K.L. Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:20:48 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-145 Maybe Zelda had some sort of medical situation that got her thinking of her family biological history. You start getting older, and this stuff comes up. At 20 she didn't really care, but at 40? Healthcare looms large... Maybe Zelda had some sort of medical situation that got her thinking of her family biological history. You start getting older, and this stuff comes up. At 20 she didn’t really care, but at 40? Healthcare looms large…

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]]> By: Marcia in OK http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-142 Marcia in OK Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:53:24 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-142 Preface this comment with - I'm just a reader . . . When you asked in the last post "What made Zelda need to search for her Dad NOW?" . . . or something like that. . . my thoughts just keep circling round this idea. . . Her mom died recently. She's alone in the world - except for the dad she never knew. Without your sense of family - Where does one belong? I just keep thinking about how awful it'd be to lose my mom. Thank God she's young! Even then, no guarantees. Just what was on your mind. Good luck with Agnes. Thankfully, we can trust you to leave us with the Good Stuff. I love that you are blogging more frequently! Preface this comment with – I’m just a reader . . .

When you asked in the last post “What made Zelda need to search for her Dad NOW?” . . . or something like that. . . my thoughts just keep circling round this idea. . .

Her mom died recently. She’s alone in the world – except for the dad she never knew. Without your sense of family – Where does one belong?

I just keep thinking about how awful it’d be to lose my mom. Thank God she’s young! Even then, no guarantees.

Just what was on your mind.

Good luck with Agnes. Thankfully, we can trust you to leave us with the Good Stuff.

I love that you are blogging more frequently!

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]]> By: Jenny http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-141 Jenny Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:00:28 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-141 It looks strange with the lower case A. I think the fact that it's three letters and the Y kind of wraps around the O makes the YoU work, but dropping the middle letters of Again out just makes it hard to read and creates white space in the middle which screws up the eye movement over it. But i tried it, too, because I like the symbolism, the cap A for what happened in the past and the cap N for what's happening now, and then the lower case letters showing the passage of time. But I think it works better in the YoU. Y is for the summer of '88 when everything happened to the heroine, and U is for 2008 and the now of the story, and the lower case "o" is for the average empty years in between. Not that she was empty, they're just empty for the story. Nothing happened of importance. And then the all caps AGAIN hits the spoken emphasis, too: We're back here AGAIN with these same old problems? You AGAIN?? It looks strange with the lower case A.
I think the fact that it’s three letters and the Y kind of wraps around the O makes the YoU work, but dropping the middle letters of Again out just makes it hard to read and creates white space in the middle which screws up the eye movement over it. But i tried it, too, because I like the symbolism, the cap A for what happened in the past and the cap N for what’s happening now, and then the lower case letters showing the passage of time.
But I think it works better in the YoU. Y is for the summer of ’88 when everything happened to the heroine, and U is for 2008 and the now of the story, and the lower case “o” is for the average empty years in between. Not that she was empty, they’re just empty for the story. Nothing happened of importance.
And then the all caps AGAIN hits the spoken emphasis, too: We’re back here AGAIN with these same old problems? You AGAIN??

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]]> By: Strop http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-140 Strop Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:30:03 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-140 I like the YoU AGAIN typeface; it looks like roses rambling over the front of hte house. I also agree with ChelSierra - what does it look like with the lower case 'a'? I like the YoU AGAIN typeface; it looks like roses rambling over the front of hte house. I also agree with ChelSierra – what does it look like with the lower case ‘a’?

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]]> By: Jenny http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-139 Jenny Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:26:10 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-139 The Cherries are everywhere. Actually, there are days when I'D like to write like that Crusie woman. The Cherries are everywhere.
Actually, there are days when I’D like to write like that Crusie woman.

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]]> By: susan http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-138 susan Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:17:56 +0000 http://www.arghink.com/2007/02/04/you-again-shes-a-type-a/#comment-138 That Crusie Woman Great title for a movie. Or a biography. Even a website. That Crusie Woman

Great title for a movie. Or a biography. Even a website.

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