After much thought, Sandy has decided to step away from her project with Anna Sundstrand due to her increasingly busy schedule and many other projects. She wishes Anna all the best with the book and its new writer. Sandy wishes she could be a part of the project, but knows it’s not fair to Anna since she can’t focus all of her attention on it.
It’s been a very long time since I blogged, huh? Well, part of that reason is my head is a scramble of book releases, interviews, work, internships, friends/family and sleep deprivation! LOL! I may be turning into Haley Foster (from “Dream Catchers” available now!!!)…if you read the first 2 chapters, you’ll know she has trouble sleeping.
See, I prefer NOT to sleep, lol. That’s 8 hours I could be writing! But sleep is needed and I do enjoy dreaming. I keep dreaming about my mother coming back to life…I wonder if that means she’s visiting me in my sleep, or my memories of her are so fresh that it feels like she’s still with me.
Anyway, I’m on Madison Avenue today. Anna Sundstrand and her mom went back to Sweden for the holidays and offered up their apartment to me for the week. Of course any opportunity to get off Staten Island is taken for me! I would love to live in Manhattan one day…
So many exciting things happening–besides the holidays, which I love–“Dream Catchers” is on sale today!! I know the release date is officially January 26th, BUTTTT I’ve decided to make it available earlier for the holidays!
Also, I’m working on a Sandy-lo.com store where you can find both “Lost In You”, “Dream Catchers”, and cool merchandise like t-shirts, totes, etc. Also, “Haley’s Letter” – the song I wrote with James Manzello will be available for purchase through there as well. The Cafe Press store for “Dream Catchers” is now available: http://www.cafepress.com/DreamCatchers10.
Okay, so that’s all I have to say for now…I’m waiting to hear back in regards to an interview with Thirty Seconds To Mars…say a prayer for me! I LOVE them! In fact, they were the inspiration to many things Tortured in “Dream Catchers”. Oh, in case you’re wondering–Tortured is the band that Jordan is in. Man, I can’t wait for you to read this book already!!! There’s so much to discuss! lol.
For now, check out Tortured’s MySpace page and become their friend! (I run this page for fun, lol. Tortured is NOT real, but based off real people!). Go to: http://www.myspace.com/torturedmusic.
Oh! And reminder: if you’re in the NYC area on January 23, 2010 – come to Cargo Cafe in Staten Island @ 7pm for the “Dream Catchers” release party where you can celebrate the book, my birthday and see awesome performers like James Manzello (performing “Haley’s Letter” for the first time!), Anna Sundstrand (my dear friend and awesome singer/actress), and Harlem Witness (my rapping friend Shawn).
Until next time…
Hugs, Kisses & Stars,
Sandy Lo
To celebrate my 27th birthday AND the release of “Dream Catchers”, I will be having a book release party at Cargo Cafe on January 23, 2010. I will be debuting “Haley’s Letter”, a song I wrote for the book. My good friend, James Manzello wrote music to it and will be performing it live at Cargo. Other performers include Anna Sundstrand!
The party starts at 7pm. All ages welcome.
Cargo Cafe
120 Bay Street
Staten Island, NY 10301
(718) 876-0539
www.cargocafe.com
To be kept updated on this event, please comment below and provide an accurate e-mail address (which will not be visible to anyone but me).
I have been busy the past few months getting StarShine Magazine in order, which it finally is! Big thanks to the webmaster for both www.starshinemag.com and THIS site – Karen Rushton! I have also moved from Queens back to Staten Island, so I’m getting back into the swing of things.
Anyway – I’m starting up promoting again and want you guys to know I’m still here and still writing… I have added an event for July 26, 2009. I will be doing a book signing for a book club on Staten Island. More details to come. As for the Barnes & Noble book signing – things weren’t going as smoothly as I hoped, so I decided to “Damn the Man” so to speak and go in a different direction. I’m in the middle of planning a few events right now, but will post that information once things are more concrete.
For those wondering about Chris Trousdale and Anna Sundstrand…Chris is still back in Michigan with his Mom and is teaching dance classes. Anna and I are still working on our book and will hopefully have more on that soon as well.
Finally, LOST IN YOU is now available at amazon.com and target.com! 
So if you haven’t bought your copy, now you have 3 different places that carry it!
Hello! Sorry it has taken a minute to get this all up & running again…but I hope you like the new site! New things will be added soon including reviews, interviews, events to support Lost In You and more info on my second novel, Dream Catchers and my book with Anna Sundstrand!!! Also, I now have a publicist, the wonderful Mona Loring! More news soon…thanks for stopping by and for all of your support!
Hugs, Kisses & Stars,
Sandy Lo
Sandy (StarShine Magazine): You’re here tonight supporting the Dorough Lupus Foundation.
Chris Trousdale: Yes, I am.
Sandy (StarShine Magazine): Can you tell us a little bit why you decided to come tonight?
Chris Trousdale: Well, I decided to come mainly because my brother Ronnie’s wife has lupus. It’s something I’ve known of and been around for many years now. I have two nephews and their mother has it and it’s just something I’ve always known about and dealt with. To finally find someone like Howie doing this and in such a great way, it makes me so happy to be here. I’m very proud to be here, especially more than anything to see Howie’s fans and my fans and all these supporters of this foundation be here and not be here because of anything else but the fact that they‘re here for this. That’s something hard to find. I shared a limo with many fans and Howie and Anna. They were all so sweet and everyone is here for the cause. I’m very happy to be a part of this, so thank you for allowing me to be here, Sandy.
[Anna sits down next to Chris and joins the interview.]
Sandy (StarShine Magazine): No problem. I was happy to invite you both. I was just talking to Chris, if you’d like to join in, about why you guys decided to come tonight.
Chris Trousdale: [To Anna] Why did you wanna come tonight?
Anna Sundstrand: To absolutely one hundred percent support the charity. You told me it was great, and I trust you. I love anything that has anything to do with charity, so that’s why I wanted to come. The disease is something I never heard of before and I think it’s something everyone should get involved in. No one really knows what it is.
Sandy (StarShine Magazine): It’s also a very hard disease to diagnose, so some people don’t even know they have it.
Anna Sundstrand: Yes.
Chris Trousdale: Exactly. The thing is, even though we have the coolest technology nowadays, some of these diseases are so, so alien to us and it’s really sad to hear about them and to know that you can’t cure them and that baffles me.
Sandy (StarShine Magazine): Yeah. So now I want to talk a little bit about what you guys have got going on. You have the tour coming up. When does that kick off?
Chris Trousdale: That’s going to kick off the end of November. Anna and I are going to tour together because we are both solo now. We were both in groups and being in a group, as everyone knows, it’s really hard to separate yourself from a group. We’re going to venture off into that thing together and release our albums the following year. Mine hopefully in February and Anna’s soon to come after and we can’t wait to go on tour.
Anna Sundstrand: Absolutely!
Sandy (StarShine Magazine): Very cool. Now I was talking to some of your fans earlier and they were telling me that they like seeing you at events like this more rather than Radio Disney things. How do you feel about that?
Anna Sundstrand: We actually have– [Chris starts hysterically laughing]
Sandy (StarShine Magazine): What are you laughing at!?
Chris Trousdale: [Still laughing] I’m sorry. What happened?
Anna Sundstrand: We actually have this charity tour coming up. Me and Chris support charities all the time. [To Chris] You tell them about the charity thing.
Chris Trousdale: What it is…during the holidays, many of these kids who are bedridden in the hospitals have no way of having any entertainment or any sense of “Oh my God, someone cares about us that’s not family”. As entertainers, the only time people get to see us is at concerts, so what we’re going to do is give these kids at the hospitals a private concert, and give them gifts from our fans. It’s people giving to other people. Like the fans will come to our shows with gifts and we’ll take those gifts to the hospitals.
Anna Sundstrand: And both me and Chris have done it before. I’ve been to hospitals giving out gifts and just seeing those faces of those kids and the parents are like “Thank you so much for doing this. It made my kid’s day.” It’s unbelievable how happy they are. Both me and Chris love it. During Christmas is the perfect time to do it. I can’t wait to do it!
Chris Trousdale: It’s a blast!
Sandy (StarShine Magazine): Very cool! Well, good luck with everything. We can’t wait to see you on the road.
Chris Trousdale: Thank you StarShine Magazine, you rock! And Sandy, I love you to death!
Sandy (StarShine Magazine): Aww, I love you, too!
Anna Sundstrand: Totally, thank you, Sandy! Love you!
Sandy (StarShine Magazine): Love you, too! Thank you.
