A packed house at Oriole9 in Woodstock, NY (where the book is set) helped me launch The Joke’s on Me in August. We sold out the Golden Notebook’s entire stock, even the half-dozen-or so copies I had in the trunk of my car. What a great time!

So what’s the story about? When a mudslide destroys everything she owns, former stand-up comic Frankie Goldberg flees LA for her idyllic hometown. But a bigger disaster awaits—the family responsibilities she’s been shirking and the older sister who means to rub Frankie’s nose in it.