Laura Barcella's blog

Madonna & Me giveaway!

Laura Barcella — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:00:13 +0000

In honor of Madge’s upcoming half-time performance, I’m giving away a free copy of Madonna & Me every Sunday until the Super Bowl!

Want to win a copy of the lovely & amazing finished book, signed by yours truly?

Enter a comment below telling me your all-time favorite Madonna song. I’ll draw a winner at random! Come back again next Sunday for a new drawing.

Madonna & Me giveaway!

Laura Barcella — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:55:53 +0000

There’s a Madonna & Me giveaway happening on my Twitter page today!

The 40th person to retweet this message AND mention their fave Madonna song wins a signed copy of Madonna & Me! Do it…

Publishers Weekly reviews ‘MADONNA & ME’

Laura Barcella — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:35:08 +0000

I was excited today to read this Publishers Weekly review of Madonna & Me!

Here’s a choice snippet: “These essays… amplify the influence [Madonna] had on a generation. … [They] reveal that Madonna’s mix of spirituality and raw sensuality had a considerable impact in shaping attitudes.”

Nice, right?

Early press for MADONNA & ME

Laura Barcella — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:50:05 +0000

Check out this great preview of Madonna & Me in the Wilmington, North Carolina alt-weekly ENCORE. The piece was written by Tiffanie Gabrielse, who interviewed both myself and wonderful contributor Shawna Kenney.

Hooray!

New writing up on Yahoo!’s Year in Review 2011

Laura Barcella — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:29:32 +0000

I busted my butt and wrote four pieces for Yahoo!’s Year in Review 2011. (I also copy edited a gazillion articles for it, but that’s just not as glamorous, is it?)

My first piece is about Casey Anthony (who was the second most searched-for term on Yahoo! this year). I wrote another piece about good ol’ Casey, as well, but the focus of this one is her insane trial and verdict. My third piece is about journalist Lara Logan, who was sexually assaulted in Cairo and then alternately shamed and praised for her handling of it. Last but not least, my fourth article is a bit fluffier, about the tragic end of Oprah Winfrey’s talk show. Go get reading!

New website!

Laura Barcella — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:44:01 +0000

My awesome friend Steve helped my revamp my website — I think it’s a lot cleaner and more functional now, while still being pretty. Best of all, I can manage and update it myself, since it’s on WordPress.

Check it out — what do you think?

“Like” me on Facebook!

Laura Barcella — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:15:35 +0000

Yesterday I made an author page for myself on Facebook. If you like me, you should like it! Go here, please. And thank you.

New piece about internet addiction up at The Fix

Laura Barcella — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:33:09 +0000

Hola, my friends. (I think there may be all of one or two people reading this blog, but hey. Beggars can’t be choosers!)

I wanted to let you know I have a new article up at the wonderful, new-ish, addiction-focused web magazine TheFix.com. My piece is about internet addiction — more specifically social-media addiction, and whether recovering drug/alcohol addicts are more likely to become compulsive around their use of social networking sites.

Read it and then leave a comment! It only has 2 comments so far, so it could use your love and affection. Thanks!

Confession: I have another book coming out!

Laura Barcella — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:35:15 +0000

So, in my heaps of free time when I wasn’t working on Madonna & Me, I was working on another book! A nonfiction pop-culture book about the apocalypse! Yes, I’m serious. It’s called The End: 50 Apocalyptic Visions From Pop Culture That You Should Know About…Before It’s Too Late. It’s out this July from awesome San Francisco publisher Zest Books. You can pre-order it here! And I’ll give you more details later, but of course.

New piece up at XOJane

Laura Barcella — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:36:24 +0000

I’ve wanted to write for a Jane Pratt venture for a zillion years now. Like many women my age, I grew up with (read: was obsessed with) Sassy magazine as a pre-teen. It was so smart and so honest and so fun and so refreshingly non-condescending. I’m glad I finally got to write something — about a sad subject: a guy I went out with who was later murdered — for Jane P.’s newish website XOJane. Check it out.