"Tidy" is not a word to describe my office when I am working on a new edition of my book on
sex. Fortunately, I just finished and I'm pleased with the little monster--all 992 pages with ten new chapters, 24 nasty new illustrations, 2,453 updates and revisions, and a new cover with a colorful cool zipper on it.
A few weeks ago, while I was frantically trying to get the new edition to press, I received a royalty check of $3,500 from my publisher in Russia. It seems the Russian translation of my book has resonated well with post-Soviet sensibilities, and I keep getting unexpected royalty payments from Moscow.
As I looked around my office there was only one surface that was not covered with piles of journal articles and collections of notes. That surface was the top of the dog cage next to my desk where our beagle likes to sleep. (When the beagle is not baying at the elk in our lower pasture or howling at the scent of a cougar or bear in the hills above us, he likes to keep an eye on me and I on him.)
So I put the check from Russia on top of the dog cage, assuming it would be safe there. The next day the check was no where to be found. After a protracted search, my wife and daughter found two small dog-eared pieces of what had been the check from Russia. The beagle had reached up through the cage, pulled the check inside, and enjoyed a $3,500 lunch.
I then did what any author in this kind of situation would do: I groveled to the east. Lest anyone complain too much about post-Soviet chaos, they had a new check to me in nine days. As for the beagle, he is sitting in the cage at this very moment, looking up at me and, and wondering when the next check will arrive.
DAILY DRAWING FOR A FREE COPY OF MY BOOK
Starting next Monday and each day until December 23, I will be giving away a free copy of the new edition of my book, Guide To Getting It On, to Psychology Today Blog readers. Click HERE to enter. Not to worry, your email address comes only to me, and I won't be doing anything evil with it except to digitally destroy it on December 23. I will post the name of the winner here each day. Other than that. the only thing you will receive is an email confirming that you've entered. If you don't win, you will automatically be entered into the next day's drawing.
Given that it is a book on sex with some pretty explicit illustrations, you should be 18 years or older to enter. By entering you are assuring me that you are 18 year of age or older.
