You know you’ve ‘made it’ when people are wearing you. I have images dancing around my head of someone deciding to wear their Justin Bieber pelt for the day.  (Does that mean when he gets dirty we can take him outside and beat him?) *cough*

Though this isn’t exactly what I meant, who wouldn’t love to beat the Bieber for those earworm lyrics?

I mean the fashion labels, the fragrances and the other hock-able items.

Delta Goodrem and Kylie Minogue have their underwear lines. Gwen Stefani has L.A.M.B and probably a fragrance or 3 out there. Mariah Carey, though not always stable on her feet onstage, has definitely got herself firmly planted in the fragrance world. Even Avril Lavigne has her own perfume. Then there’s the endorsements, Covergirl, Loréal, and Avon.

It’s not only the famous women who are taking on the marketing world either. Usher, Ian Thorp, Jay-Z, Sean “P Diddy” ~Formally Puff Daddy~ Combs and David Beckham just to name a few.

I’d love to see what sorts of things authors would be approached to endorse. Parker Pens, Reflex Paper, Snuggies, tracksuits, coffee maybe even Apple Computers. Stephen King could market his new fragrance for men… “FEAR” A mixture of wet Kugo and graveyard moss.

Now the only author I know of who was lucky enough to get a bonus for the shameless plugs in her books, was MaryJanice Davidson, scoring a bunch of Manolo Blahniks. I think the character, Betsy Taylor, really paid off there.

I know I’ll be thinking really carefully of product placement when I’m writing my best seller.

What would you name a fragrance by a famous author ?

What other things do you think authors should be approached to endorse?

By the Bel

Right, this would have to be one of the top 3 most stressful times of
the year for me, and probably most Mothers, Australia-wide, agree. It’s
the lead up to Father’s day. (The other two stressful times being
their Partner’s Birthday and Christmas)

I’m TOTALLY stumped as to what to get my husband. The budget is rather
lean this year and his tastes run rather rich. So I have been racking
my brain as to what to buy him. To test the water I was browsing the
Myer catalogue and showed him the page of undies:

“How about some of these this year darl?”
“What? No! How would you like it if I bought you an iron for Mother’s day?”
“Fine, point taken.”

Poop! There goes plan A.

I looked in the DVD section of Big W. But he’d bought all the movie,
sporting , and motor racing DVD’s he wanted already.

Plan B gone.

I hit the websites, and I am starting to think the budget is cruising
down the runway in preparation to fly out the window and off into the
sunset. If I had unlimited funds I could get him a few hot laps in a
Lotus. Or I could find that box set of the Animaniacs TV series he’s
been longing for since it was released in the USA.

The one thing I am avoiding, at ALL costs is probably the gadget he  
wants more than anything: A USB Hub that looks like a tardis and makes
the tardis noise when it’s in use. I swear I will go Darlek on his
butt if he ever acquires one.

So, I have a few more days to find something that he won’t hate (I’ve

given up on finding something he’ll love) and something that won’t

make me turn into a strange-looking-homicidal-robot-thing with a laser stem where my nose should be.