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Get your finance questions answered by expert Dan Solin, author of THE SMARTEST MONEY BOOK YOU’LL EVER READ. He’ll be hosting a live video chat on January 11 at 3 pm EST. All you have to do is like the Mint.com Facebook page to participate!

 

The Smartest Money Book You'll Ever Read is available now. 

 

One of the Evils of the Modern World

Posted by John Duff

I hadn’t meant for this first blog of 2012 to be about New Year resolutions but Art Markman’s interview with USA Today (for publication of his book, Smart Thinking), nudged me in that direction since it focused on one of my own issues, multitasking, that he calls “one of the evils of the modern world.”

It seems to me that many people in the publishing industry multitask by default. We aren’t unique, but we do juggle many different aspects of our jobs and have to respond to a stream of demands from different quarters simultaneously. The process of bringing an author’s work to fruition is not assembly line work in spite of the fact that we have, here at Penguin, what is called a “critical path” – a month-by-month timeline that details every aspect from acquisition and editing to production and distribution of a book.  But like all assembly-line processes, it doesn’t take much to turn it into an episode from “I Love Lucy.”

What Art so cogently and clearly presents in his book is an alternative. “Rather than multitask,” he continues, “I think we need to prioritize.” But the challenge for most of us is finding the discipline to set those priorities while maintaining the flexibility to respond to the unexpected. 

As Art sees it, multitasking prevents us from acquiring and using high quality knowledge to get things done. For instance, he says, “We go to meetings and we’re supposed to learn something from them…” but far too often we are either sneaking peeks at our e-mail during the meeting or whip out the smart phone when we are barely out of our seats. In the former case, we are simply not absorbing what we need to from what’s taking place in front of us and, in the latter, we are leaving what we remember about the meeting completely up to chance since our minds have become immediately focused on something else.

But rather than eschew multitasking completely – or even resolving to do so – I’ll take one piece of advice from Art and take just 90 seconds after a meeting to review (or note) the key points that I want and need to remember. I’ll try that for a week and see how it works. It may just become one of those beneficial habits that makes getting things done so much easier.

And next week I’ll turn off my Email Alert so I’m not distracted every time a new message arrives!

 

Art Markman's Smart Thinking is available now.

 

Bad Animals at Home for the Holidays

Posted by Linda Lombardi, author of Animals Behaving Badly

Reporting on the truth about our fellow creatures is a lonely job. Despite my best efforts to expose their bad habits and character flaws, they still seem to get nothing but good press. One day, yet another book about a puppy hits the best-seller list. The next, another cute animal photo goes viral. And last week, we had a story by the Associated Press about gift-buying plans for the holiday season.

The article contained the results of a poll revealing that pet owners have budgeted an average of $46 for gifts for their pets—more than the average $41 they reported spending last year. Yes, unemployment is at nine percent and governments everywhere are cutting basic services, but if you’re a dog or a cat, don’t worry. The odds are good that you’ll find even more in your Christmas stocking this year than last.

I admit that I’m as guilty of this sort of thing as anyone. My cats get hairball-medicine treats that cost as much per pound as Kobe beef. My pugs dine on kibble made of locally sourced free-range chicken and wild-caught fish, and go on vacation with me to nice hotels. They certainly do get Christmas presents, and homemade birthday cakes, too.

What have our pets done to deserve this kind of treatment? Sure, they’re cute and cuddly. But did you know that over 86,000 Americans end up in the emergency room each year because a pet caused them to fall? Or that pets start about a thousand house fires a year?

And you may believe that you’re doing all these nice things for your sweet furbabies of your own free will when, in fact, these creatures are manipulating us at a completely unconscious level. Those puppy-dog eyes trigger the same neurotransmitter involved in pair-bonding with your mate and maternal behavior toward your offspring. And cats use a special combination meow-purr to demand service that’s acoustically similar to the cry of a human infant, a sound that we’ve evolved over millennia to respond to without fail.

So let’s get a grip on ourselves, people. Times are tough. Spending going UP on presents for our pets makes no sense, because even leaving aside whether they deserve it, they’d be just as happy with stuff that costs nothing. Let your pet’s worst qualities work in your favor for a change. Cats, for instance, may be beautiful, but they’re no geniuses: Their tiny brains can get hours of entertainment out of an empty box or paper bag. Just give them what the human presents came in and their holiday fun is all set, at no extra cost.

And what will make this the Christmas your dog will always remember? Just think about whatever you’re constantly yelling at him for, and go with it. Let him dive into the kitchen trash, just this once. It’s free, and there’s nothing money can buy that he would enjoy more.

 

An Editor's FML

Posted by Marian Lizzi

I just had the pleasure of editing a very funny new manuscript based on the website FMyLife.com, which collects painfully honest snapshots of life's awkward, embarrassing, or otherwise disappointing little moments, submitted by readers around the world. If you haven't seen the site, I encourage you to check it out (and I hasten to mention that it's often a teensy bit NSFW.) (And if you don't know what NSFW means, then maybe it's best to just skip the whole thing.)

In the spirit of F My Life World Tour (coming from Perigee next June), I humbly present this list of FML entries from the point of view of a hypothetical book editor. That's right, they're composites—inspired by real moments experienced by me and some of my peers, but...edited a little.

With no further ado...

 

Today, a book that I turned down appeared on the bestseller list. For the fifth week in a row. FML

 

Today I read yet another proposal that misspelled the word foreword. It was a proposal for a writing guide. FML

 

Today one of my authors turned in his manuscript. He met the contracted delivery date—but doubled the word count. FML

 

Today I looked at some financial reports, and I was reminded that the profitability of my books often seems to be inversely proportional to the amount of time I spent editing them. FML

 

Today, I mentioned to a friend that I'm thinking of buying some new bookshelves. She replied, "I love bookshelves—but I never know what to put on them." FML

 

Today, I loaded seven proposals onto on my jump drive to read at home in the evening, in advance of our editorial meeting in the morning. Then I left it on my desk. Along with the key to my locked office. FML

 

Today I heard someone in the industry use the phrase “dead-tree editions.” Without being ironic. FML

 

Today we heard that an account was passing on one of our titles. The reason: “It has too many words.” FML

 

Today I turned down three collections of children’s poetry. We don’t publish children’s books. Or poetry. FML

 

Today, a major newspaper gave one of our books a rave review. And misspelled our imprint’s name. FML

 

 

I’d love to hear your publishing-related FMLs (I think…). Comment below, or email me at Marian.Lizzi@us.penguingroup.com. I’ll share the best ones (that aren’t NSFW, of course).

How to Get (Happily) Published

This  excerpt from an interview with Perigee publisher John Duff was originally  posted by Splash of Red in The Industry Interviews, Part III.

 
SoR: What are some common mistakes writers make that can put their manuscript in jeopardy of not getting published?

Duff: I could go on for days (hyperbole) on the topic of the most common, egregious, and silly (excessive use of adjectives) mistakes that writers might allow to creep into their manuscripts or proposals. However, the following appear in proposals and manuscripts often enough to raise red flags. While any one of these might not send the proposal to the recycle bin or cause us to cancel a contracted work, they are worth noting:

A lack of a coherent structure: It is particularly important in prescriptive non-fiction that there is a logical flow of information throughout the book. Many proposals that I have seen appear to have been cobbled together from random thoughts that the author has had about the subject matter.

Failure to understand the potential readership for which the book is intended: When I advise writers that I publish “popular” reference, that doesn’t mean that I am expecting to see copious footnotes and lots of $5 words. (Or, in the present economy, $25 words.)  While many authors may be experts in their particular fields, the largest potential readership is not their peer group. Nor am I in the business of publishing a thesis.  Most of the books that I publish need to have some practical application.  (Assuming that they aren’t intended as pure entertainment.)

The reliance on jargon: Because many of my authors are experts in a subject first and writers second there is a tendency for them to rely on the jargon of their trade, which is incomprehensible to the average reader. Worse, readers might assume that this jargon means one thing when, in fact, it actually means something completely different.

And finally, my pet peeve: Use of the incorrect version of “foreword.” I find it hard to get past “forward” when I see it in a table of contents even at the proposal stage. My instinct is to forward it to the recycle bin.  

(And, also, see the following question concerning grammar and spelling. )

 
SoR: How important is having impeccable grammar and spelling compared to having a really great story for a manuscript?

Duff: I am one of the worst offenders when it comes to correct spelling and grammar, although most of my errors arise from my poor typing skills and failure to proofread. However, the lack of attention to good grammar and proper spelling is an impediment for readers. If authors do not have at least a decent command of both grammar and spelling (and don’t bother to proofread their work) it sends a very strong, negative signal to me. To be fair, many of the authors with whom I work are experts in their fields and do not consider themselves to be “writers.” In most of these cases, the expert will engage a collaborator who will have the skills to convey the expert's ideas clearly – and with good grammar and spelling.

Editors do have their pet peeves. One of mine is using a noun, such as impact, as a verb. I will always change it in the manuscript. I have relaxed my position on many other transgressions – life is too short to worry about split infinitives or ending a sentence with a preposition.

Even in prescriptive non-fiction the “story” is important, but the telling of it can’t be obscured by a lack of clear prose that adheres, at least for the most part, to the rules of grammar and spelling.

That said, I will always give authors leeway for self-expression in order to maintain their particular “voice.” 

SoR: How much do you look at education or publishing credits when considering a manuscript for publication?

Duff: In the area of prescriptive non-fiction, the author’s credentials as an expert in his/her field are very important. While many excellent  works of non-fiction have been written by journalists or others who do not have PhD’s or MD’s or the equivalent, this is generally the exception. Readers (and the media) want to know that the author has the authority to speak on the subject.

Publishing credentials are quite another matter. An author’s track record can be critical. If the author’s  previous book has been successful, it makes it that much easier for the publisher to market the new book. And, of course, the opposite is true. Overcoming a bad track record is one of the most challenging things in my field of publishing.

If the author has not published previously, it is not necessarily a handicap. We will look to other factors to launch a book by a first timer. (I will point out the obvious here: many “authors” who publish in a specific category of non-fiction often only have one book in them. Subsequent books in the same subject area tend to be variations on the theme or become overly specialized.  We will often publish several books by the same author in his/her area of expertise but generally expect lower sales from book to book.) 

 

 SoR: While self-publishing has certainly helped the average writer get their work out there, what are the pros and cons versus seeking a publishing house?

Duff: While I am not convinced that self-publishing  has necessarily helped the average writer to “get their work out there” (it has, perhaps allowed them to print copies of their work or to upload it as an eBook), it is worth noting that a publishing house can provide the following:

• a critical eye and editorial expertise that will help authors not only improve their work editorially (with the input of the editor, copyeditor, etc.), but will help the author place their books in the context of what is already published in the field
• thousands of person hours of expertise in every aspect of the publishing process: editorial, design, packaging, selling, distribution, etc.
• an advance, however modest, provides the author with a level of validation (and sometimes freedom) to do their work and underscores the notion that the author does not have to pay for the services that the publisher provides as a matter of course (see above: “every aspect of the publishing process.”)
• a measure of credibility in the marketplace   

 

SoR: If everyone has a platform, what can authors do to set themselves apart?

Duff: Not everyone has a platform, which can be a problem, especially when trying to launch non-fiction. Many people are capable of writing excellent manuscripts, but publishers expect to get a publishable work as a matter of course. What publishers are often paying for is the “platform” that will allow us to reach the widest possible market for the book in the most expedient way. That platform can be as simple as the author being recognized as a top expert in his/her field. Authors may already have a built-in market from their lectures, workshops, training programs, etc. and can reach thousands of potential buyers with a few key strokes. Almost every author in the non-fiction field should have a website, blog, Twitter, or other social media set up that are maintained and promoted. If an author doesn’t know how to set these things up, they should find out now. (Even the savviest author who may be called upon by the media regularly still needs ongoing social media to support their profile.)

 

SoR: Is there a gender bias that goes with genres such as women writing about relationships and parenting and men writing about history and politics, i.e. do readers expect certain genders to be more knowledgeable about certain topics and if so, how does consumer perception like that affect the what you choose to publish?

Duff: For every instance where one could cite “gender bias” there will be another example of how that is negated. Men write prolifically about parenting, relationships, etc. (what one might call the “feminine” subjects, if one wanted to be subject to outrage from certain quarters) and women contribute outstanding works in history and politics (areas of traditional male domination). Even in the category of business (a rather broad term that comprises everything from self-improvement to management to financial subjects) I rather doubt that most editors would factor in the author’s sex when making a decision to publish or not. While I have taken into account an author’s sex when it comes to certain topics it is because I anticipate that readers may wish to hear the points of view of one sex or another on a particular topic.

SoR: When considering a manuscript for publication, how much of your opinion is subjective versus objective and do you consider what will sell over what is underrepresented?

Duff: All opinion is subjective to a degree. The decision to publish is based on (or subject to)  a number of factors: the quality of the work; the credibility (and profile) of the author; the perceived popularity (or otherwise) of the subject matter; the effect of current (and forthcoming) competition (to your point about what is underrepresented); timing; suitability for the respective publisher’s list; etc.  While I hesitate to use the word unique, it does have to apply to each proposal that I see. And so each has to be judged based on the criteria I’ve mentioned above – and many others.

Our goal is to publish books that will sell. Our expectations for sales in the short and long term may vary from book to book, which is often reflected in the advance. But if the books don’t sell, we’ll be out of business – and we will be incapable of contributing to the social capital, which may be considered our higher purpose if one wants to speak in the loftiest terms. I have been disappointed more often than I care to think about concerning the sales of  a book that I was, nevertheless, proud to publish. But when we are looking at the end-of-the-year financials, we expect to be very much on the positive side of the profitability line.
 

SoR: Contracts are commonly made more often than books are published, so how often are contracts broken, for what reasons, and what can an author do about that? 

Duff: To cancel a contract  is rare for me. In fact, to state that “contracts are commonly made more often than books are published” may not be accurate. (There are probably no readily available statistics to support this statement, however.)  The main reason for a contract to be terminated is for non-delivery, that is, the author fails to deliver or to deliver by the deadline.  Most publishers are fairly lenient with authors and will extend the delivery date if the author has shown good faith – and the book is not too time sensitive. If the publisher reorganizes, which is not uncommon these days, and takes a respective publishing program in a new direction, then cancellation may ensue. But this is one of many circumstances beyond the author’s control.

My advice: Deliver a “publishable” manuscript in accordance with the publisher’s  agreement and expectations—on time.

 

SoR: If you could give one essential piece of advice to writers out there, what would it be?

Duff: Don’t quit your day job.

 

About Splash of Red

In  their own words, Splash of Red is  “the literary arts experience. We publish/produce an eclectic variety of the highest quality work & creative projects and our openness has energized a revival in the educational aspect of our field. Our dedication against stagnation fuels our passion to develop the global contemporary literary arts community.”

Another Perk of Publishing Nonfiction: The Inside Track on Wine on a Budget

Posted by Jeanette Shaw

Sometimes I think wine should be the official beverage of the publishing industry. It’s certainly my first choice of drink at any work function or even just a quiet night of working at home. (To all my authors: don’t worry, I do edit your manuscripts with a clear head!) A nice bottle of wine can be an expensive habit, though. So I was definitely excited when we acquired Natalie MacLean’s new book Unquenchable: A Tipsy Quest for the World’s Best Bargain Wines. MacLean, an acclaimed sommelier and journalist, spends the book exploring the far corners of the globe for great, affordable wines and the colorful vintners who make them. Along the way she offers some useful advice for spotting a good bargain:

• Look for labels that have illegible gothic script and impossibly long names that are difficult to pronounce. Few people can read them, so they don’t buy the wines, and demand doesn’t push up prices.
• Check your perceptions about which regions can make wine. South Africa benefits from the confluence of the oceans as well as the cooling breeze of the Antarctic, creating ideal conditions for growing wine. So try a South African brand.
• Go for wines from regions where the currency gives you an advantage. Canadian and American dollars are much stronger than Argentina’s pesos, so that builds in another discount on the import cost.
• No longer does a screw cap necessarily mean that the wine is plonk. Many good producers are using this effective closure to protect their wine.

 

Some of my personal favorite wines at prices that will appeal to everyone:

Charles Smith Wines “Kung Fu Girl” Riesling Columbia Valley

http://www.charlessmithwines.com/wines.php

DMZ (De Morgenzon) Syrah (Shiraz) Stellenbosch South Africa

http://www.demorgenzon.com/wines_dmz03.html

Don Rodolfo Pinot Noir Argentina

http://www.donrodolfo.com/pinot_noir.htm

 

Natalie MacLean’s Unquenchable goes on sale in November.

 

Election Crystal-Ball Gazing

Posted by author Rosemarie Ostler

As the 2012 election cycle heats up, it’s popular to interpret the current election in terms of the past. One of the themes of my book Slinging Mud is that there’s nothing new in politics, so I’m not surprised that the politically astute think they spy familiar territory. But exactly which territory is it? Several contradictory narratives are currently making the rounds.

Many compare the continuing economic slump with the Great Depression of the 1930s. Elections during that time were all about the economy. But will 2012 have more in common with 1932 or 1936? Voters in 1932 blamed incumbent Herbert Hoover for their monetary woes and went heavily for relatively unknown newcomer Franklin Roosevelt. On the other hand, although the Depression still dragged on in 1936, Americans decided to give FDR another four years to sort things out.     

The elections of 1980 and 1996 are also invoked frequently. Again, these two stories had opposite endings. Which ending you predict for 2012 depends on which parallels you think are more significant. Some see a Jimmy Carter-like scenario, with a weak economy leading to a one-term presidency. Others remember that Bill Clinton won a second term easily, although Republicans had decisively captured the House only two years earlier, just as happened in 2010. Will the upcoming election see a backlash against incumbents, or did voters get that out of their system at the midterms, as they apparently did in 1994?   

An election that I haven’t yet heard mentioned, but that may turn out to be relevant, is 1972. That year the Democrats engaged in a brutal, protracted fight for the nomination. They eventually chose a candidate who excited the base, but went on to lose in a landslide to a not especially popular incumbent.

With the election a year away, it may be a while before we know which story we’re in, much less its likely ending. Still, crystal-ball gazing into the electoral past has its uses. Disaffected voters now clamoring for a third party might want to take a look back at the 1912 election. That’s when ex-president Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moosers not only lost by a wide margin, but siphoned off enough votes from their former Republican colleagues to take them down too. In American political history, third-party stories have always had the same ending so far—and it isn’t happy.

The Ones That Got Away: An Editor’s Lament

Posted by Marian Lizzi

Chat up any editor who’s been around longer than the Kindle Fire, and pretty quickly you’ll tap into a deep well of heartache and loss. I’m not talking about the 75-to-1 ratio of straight women to straight men in publishing (that’s for a different post). No, I’m referring to the submissions we loved but lost. They came into our lives, we fell hard for them, and in the time it takes to say “outbid,” “pre-empted,” or “my publisher just didn’t love it as much as I did,” they were gone. And what’s worse, they hooked up with someone else, without a second thought.

In some cases, it was love at first sight. Maybe we even made the first move – reaching out to a favorite blogger, magazine writer, celebrity, or expert. An agent came into the picture, and a proposal was put together. We were included in the submission, perhaps getting an early look or exclusive. It seemed we were headed for Happily Ever After, but then…something went wrong. We couldn’t make the numbers work. The in-house support wasn’t there. The auction (if there was one) got too heated. For one reason or another, we had to part ways.

Or maybe it was a multiple submission – perhaps written by an author we’d never even heard of before. We read. We laughed. Or cried. Or both. We got reads. We got excited. We imagined a bright future together. But then we didn’t prevail.

There are other variations, of course. Maybe we didn’t love the submission at all, and said no thank you right away. Maybe we thought it was a little sloppy. Or overhyped. Or just a teeny bit cookie-cutter. Maybe it just wasn’t our type. We parted ways, and no one got hurt. Until it went on to win a Pulitzer. Or hit the List at #7. Or outsell jeggings at the mall-store chain. Suddenly an old wound is reopened: Why do I let all the good ones go?

In publishing, as in life, you learn to pick yourself up and move on. The acquisitions game is all about finding the right match at the right time, and if we spent too long pondering what might have been, we’d be missing out on the new crop of possibilities – each one another chance to make magic together…or not.

The Perks of Being a Self-Help Editor

Posted by John Duff

I have long since lost count of the number of books that I have published in the self-improvement category.

I’ve learned many a kitchen secret from Graham Kerr, Jean Anderson and JoAnna Lund, and although I wouldn’t call myself a master in that domain, I manage to put a meal on the table most nights.

I’ve read far too much about living longer and stronger and staying in my prime with this singular result: for the past decade or so I have started my day with a power shake with protein powder and flax meal thanks to a long out-of-print guide to eating according to the circadian rhythms.

And with a half dozen sign language books under my belt, the best I can conjure up is “I love you”—not always the most appropriate phrase in the work place.

All the parenting books have been passed along to my siblings whose children I hope have benefited.

And those volumes dedicated to language – spelling and grammar – occasionally see the light of day when spell check or the online synonym finders fail me.

At the risk of playing favorites, I will take this leap to declare my gratitude for Dan Solin’s series of personal finance books. His  The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read (2006) saved my financial butt during those years of tumult in the stock market and the resulting recession. Sure I lost a little, but nothing compared to what I might have without the help of his book. We published The Smartest 401(k) Book You’ll Ever Read in 2008 but I, of course, had a year’s jump on this before it hit the marketplace and was able to re-jig my own pension plan to some notable advantage just as things in the financial sector were imploding. In 2009, as I entered my seventh decade of life on earth, The Smartest Retirement Book You’ll Ever Read captured my interest. (It is often said in my professional circles that we publish subjects in which we are personally interested and hope that there are enough consumers sharing those interests to make the investment pay off.) I learned pretty quickly that one can’t start to plan too early for this sort of thing. I encourage my younger staff members to heed the advice that I wish had been available in my 20s and 30s. But still, Dan’s book assured me that late is better than never.

Now, as The Smartest Portfolio You’ll Ever Own hits the market,  I find myself embracing heretofore enigmatic notions of the Fama-French three-factor model (market, size, and value),  the perils of stock picking and marketing timing, the meaning of standard deviation, passive management (which is so much more powerful than the term might imply), asset allocation, and rebalancing. But, what’s most important to me is that my level of anxiety about money is manageable since I don’t find myself subject to the whims of the stock market or succumbing to the dire news that spews forth from CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg, and other financial media on a daily basis.

I promise all the other authors who we publish that in future blogs I’ll be sure to tell readers how I choose to be happy, why I know that dyslexia is a gift, how to make wrinkles disappear without surgery, why hoarding starts – and how to stop it, and the countless other self-improvement techniques that have added immeasurably to my life – and to the tens of thousands of readers of their books.

The Wait is Over: Answers to A Rock 'n' Roll Quiz for the Music Geek Who Thinks (S)He Knows It All

Posted by Maria Gagliano

I know you've all been scratching your head in wonder over yesterday's quiz. Here are the answers. How did you do??

My Little Pony Character or Progressive Rock Band?

Numbers 1, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24, and 25 are ponies and unicorns and such from the various My Little Pony cartoon series, toy lines, movies, and books.

Numbers 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 21, 23, and 26 are terrible bands your older brother adores.

 

Ancient Civilization or Doo-Wop Group?

 Numbers 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 15, 17, 19, and 21 have come to kill your men and take your women.

Numbers 2, 3, 6, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, and 22 have come to snap their fingers and make your women swoon.

 

Pop Metal Musician or Fictional Vampire?

 1. Whitfield Crane was the lead singer of UglyKid Joe.

2. Barnabas Collins was the principal vampire on the cult soap opera Dark Shadows.

3. Edward Cullen is the dreamy, sparkly vampire from the Twilight books.

4. Sebastian Bach fronted Skid Row, Damnocracy, and, of course, Hep Alien.

5. Eric Martin was the lead singer of Mr. Big.

6. William Pratt was the birth name of Spike, from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series.

7. William Rose was the given name of Axl Rose, of Guns N’ Roses.

 

Christian Pop Group or Norwegian Death Metal Band?

Numbers 1, 3, 6, 7, 10, 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22: Praise Jesus!

Numbers 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 17, 19, 21: Hail Satan!

 

Little Girl Object of Fancy, or Little Girl Object of Fancy That Is Also the Title of a Mariah Carey Album?

Mariah Carey has released Rainbow, Charmbracelet, Butterfly, Daydream, and Glitter. She has not yet released albums titled Unicorn, Princess, or Sparkles. 

 

 I Love Rock 'n' Roll (Except When I Hate It) is available now.